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Less than 2 weeks to go!
I don't have many super interesting updates re China, beyond that I leave in less than two weeks so have been busy with the final preparations. I just downed my first dose of Dukoral, the oral vaccine. It was pretty disgusting, but no doubt better than ecoli or cholera. This coming week I have my last mandarin class and we are going out for zhongguo fan (Chinese food) before the class. A ...
Off we go!
... Raphael spoke a little English and pointed out the volcanoes along the way. We took the highway towards San Jose and then turned north. At the corner it said 27 km to Monteverde, 24 of which was very bumpy gravel road. It was very narrow and in several places the drop off was thousands of feet, no guard rails, but generally some trees. We stopped to see howler monkeys in the trees along the way.. We also stopped to ...
Why I Ottawa Visit Again
... The Glebe Centre, which is more of an area than an actual centre, but nonetheless I set off towards it, or so I thought. I was fairly certain Kerri had said the number one or eight bus would get me to the centre, but after twenty minutes and not seeing a sign for anything remotely to do with the word Glebe, I was soon back by the market. Clearly it wasn’t the right bus, or at least it wasn’t in the right direction; I’d spotted three police ...
Farewell dinner for Karen & Innes
... Karen's recipe). Had a great evening and so were sorry to make our farewells to the Fergusons... Spent the remainder of the evening packing our stuff for the following morning. Seeing the mound of luggage and bags all in one place it's just as well Gord and Joyce weren't going to be joining us on the road-trip. They wouldn't have fit!
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Perfekter Abschied von Ottawa
... es fühlt sich komisch an, eine weitere Etappe meiner Reise zu beenden. Auf der anderen Seite bin ich schon ganz gespannt, was mich als nächstes so erwarten wird.
Der letzte Abend in Ottawa wird mit Pauken, Trompeten und Kanonenfeuer begangen. Um 19 Uhr startet die Fortissimo, ein millitärisches und musikalisches Spektakel auf den Wiesen des Parliament Hill. Neben den kanadischen millitärischen Bands, mit Dudelsack und Trommel, treten heute auch die Deutschen mit ...

