University Arms

... . Frank and me and Lawrence spent the next couple of hours just being retarded and wrestling. Had Lawrence punching me in the arms repeatedly like I always do; woke up with huge bruises on my arms and my hand hurt from punching back. super hungover. ...

... performers had these teapots with at least 3 feet long spouts that they performed all kinds of stunts with, spinning all around their arms and necks in a dramatic flourish before pouring real, hot tea into a tea cup.  The final angle they poured from ...

... be up soon.  So much to do here! I got up early Sunday morning for my first day of orientation at the university. In Egypt, a predominately Muslim country where the holy day is Friday, the week starts on a Sunday.  So Thursday is like Friday ...

... more than the imposing structure that that Mao statue was, thank you very much. We did get a chance to walk around the university gardens, which were very impressive and very beautiful. I wished we could have spent the time there instead of the gift ...

... of ourselves.  By this time, everyone was done eating so we were ushered outside to meet with our student tour guides from the University.  We were split up so that each tour guide had no more than two SAS students.  I was lucky and had ...

... enter any mosque you must take off your shoes at the entrance, and if you are female you must wear a headscarf and have your shoulders, arms, and legs covered. Then you arrive at two large rooms - one for women and one for men. I first stepped into the ...

... kind of count as a First Year, since I've never been here before, I was able to take part in O-Week, Monash University's version of freshman orientation. It totally put CI (GW's freshman orientation) to shame, and only furthered my theory that Australia ...

... won. So again, like a good American trying to learn Korean, the night before I'd learned how to ask to be driven to Ajou University, to the Hwahong dorms. So I asked the driver to take me there, and we begin the five minute drive to campus. Of course he ...

... power in this universe the key to its knowledge lies in the East. Once we left the temple we took the subway back to the University (BJUT – Beijing University of Technology where we are staying) and met up with my mothers colleague Rong. We were ...

... ’s just yuck, especially because I’m walking everywhere and most places don’t have air conditioning including Dalhousie University where I’m staying. Anyway I’ll stop whining, the nights are good and when you’re near ...

... me up from the hotel at around 9:00. After driving us for over an hour, we arrived at Beijing Language and Cultural University’s south gate. I thanked Xiao Wang and said goodbye and grabbed my stuff out of the back. We checked my stuff into ...

... to be the home of the Montbatten family (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Montbatten) at Broadlands. Off then to revisit the Southampton University where my other daughter commenced to read law in 1990 and to see her old apartment. The house we used was ...

I've just finished settling into my room here at Teikyo University Holland, and while it is nothing as compared to home, I can make it my home away from home away from home :) I brought lots of pictures and hung them all on my wall already--I love telling ...

... many years.  They told him that I was Beibei when he walked in and he looked completely shocked.  I began to reach out my arms to give him a hug when they told him I wasn't Beibei.  It was pretty funny! This morning we left the apartment ...

... dancing techniques from the time they can walk. It also helps that they're all mostly rail-thin, and don't have hips or long monkey arms like me. I am really excited to have people do my hair and makeup though. I didn't bring a hair-dryer on this trip, ...

... being able to enjoy the party. The tour guide mentioned that only 20 applicants passed this exam in 250 years, making the university authorities eventually revise the difficulty of the exam. I thought about the nervous crises I would have suffered if I ...

... in one piece.  One hour later, scratch-free but with fully smogged lungs, we reached our destination...Chiang Mai University.  We met up with our new teacher friend and his assistant teacher, and went to the classroom where several students ...

... manufacturers supplying weapons to the state of Isreal. Their demands are as follows- Cut links between the university and arms manufacturers; presentation of an official university statement condemning the Israeli army's atrocities in Gaza; boycott of ...

... little apprehensive about going, the vets were all staying at the Golden Monkey and were doing fantastic work, abandoning their university in Barcelona for a few months to help vaccinate and look over domestic animals in Uganda and Congo. Compared to ...

... people that work off-shore performing in-situ tests, drilling cores, and collecting seismic data; then people who work at the University, testing sediment parameters in lab, and assessing the underlying geology of the project area to see how safe it is ...