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... banished when we saw a bear on the far bank. We watched her and her two cubs for about half an hour as they foraged through the trees.

Lacking any proper branches, I tried to throw my rope over a suitably high fork. This failed several times and when I finally got close the rope got caught. I had to devise some way to dislodge a stuck rope 20 feet up. I succeeded after considerable effort, and eventually put the rope over a different branch. But I had ...

... div or first team game in the sun. We popped to the gym to loosen off with a swim. One of the coaches then rang and said i needed to come early with my kit to cover fly half. I was very sore, and it was a shock because i am used to playing games everyday of the weekend and more. However i played the last 20 minutes and managed to make a hit. Then the team took us to a strip club followed by another **** up.
Then the next few days as we settled in to cooking ...

We left Moose Jaw and got onto the Yellow Head Hwy (16) at Saskatoon, SK. The traffic has been very light and good but it has been very windy. Some intersections are marked "important intersection". We have not figured out what is more important at some intersections than others. There are alot of oil wells & gas wells in Alberta. We stayed tonight at a a campground ...

... I had planned to call Dann and Melissa, who I met on my tour of Southern Ireland in the fall and who invited me to stay at their place. When you arrive in a new city and impose, in a sense, on people you don't know all that well, you never know what to expect. But I was pleasantly surprised when I called Dann and he was ready to pick me up at the bus depot, and he had already arranged to take me out for lunch with Melissa. They took me to a local irish pub, O ...

On Tuesday night Cindi slept over, and skipped school on Wednesday (with the permission of her parents and teachers) to help me pack. It did almost take me a whole day and it was definately not easy fitting everything in. Then we went over to Cindi's house for a bit, and Kaegan joined us there after school. After that we were meeting everyone at Pizza Hut, which is also an eat-in restaurant in Canada, for supper. Boston Pizza which is the usual choice was ...

I think this was on the Tuesday which was my last day. My host mum had said that I didn't have to go to school at all that week, but as we were leaving for Edmonton on Thursday morning and all my friends were at school, I wouldn't have much to do anyway. On Tuesday I was mostly taking picutres with lots of different people and during my spare my friend Cindi and I went around and took pictures of ...

This was my last weekend in Cold Lake so we were trying to pack a few things in. I was supposed to have a going away party this night, and a friend offered to have it at her house. But there was basketball which didn't finish until late and her whole family was involved in that, and by the time she got back to me to let me know that people couldn't come over, it was too late to organise an alternate place. So unfortunately I had to ...

In my perfect world, balance and growth would be integral. I have had experience in intense growth but at a cost. I used to believe that it was necessary to visit extremes in order to stimulate rapid development. While this may work in some situations, there is no body that can sustain constant barrage of assault without compromising integrity. Burnout out is most often reached by those who do not monitor themselves and maintain their equilibrium. In the past, I've made giant leaps and ...

... We are then onto Cairo for a couple days and then to Aswan and then on a Felucca sailing boat down the Nile for 2 days. Then onto Luxor, Alexandria and Siwa for the usual Egypt sights. Then into the Western Desert for camping with no tents! Then back to Cairo. We fly out of Cairo on Sept 21st and arrive in Entebbe/Kampala on Sept 22nd. We begin our 12 week overland from here, beginning with going to see the Apes in Rwanda. We ...

Edmonton is something like the Canadian Denver, perched out there on the Western plains, except that Denver has mountains a whole lot closer, and is bigger, and Edmonton has the twin city Calgary just down the road competing for status. Okay, so maybe Edmonton is really more like Minneapolis, farther up north, or maybe… comparisons fail. Edmonton is its own entity, sitting proud high up the Alberta ...