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Tenuous? I laugh at tenuous

Wednesday, February 1st, 2006

I’m afraid it looks grim for our hero … the blender’s on puree
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Posted in About Me, Canada, Certification, China, ESL, Family, fitness, futility, gap-year, Hunan, Indonesia, Java, Life outside of work, Living the dream, overseas living, requirements, Surabaya, tefl, tesol, Tesol certification, Travel, tropics, vacation | Comments Off on Tenuous? I laugh at tenuous

Shades of John Denver

Friday, January 20th, 2006

Bags are almost packed and we’re almost ready to go
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Posted in At the office, Certification, Changsha, China, ESL, Family, Hunan, Indonesia, Java | No Comments »

An ending and perhaps …

Thursday, January 5th, 2006
There have been a few changes at work in the last few months. We've managed to weather the storm. We'll be moving on at the end of this month.
We'll be in Indonesia, but haven't chosen which city to stay in. ... [Continue reading this entry]

Posted in At the office, Changsha, China, Hunan, Living the dream, overseas living, tefl, tesol, Tesol certification | No Comments »

A day and a night

Thursday, May 26th, 2005
A typical day off spent with family,and a night spent walking with my wife The day was bright We had a good day I was off I went shopping With Robert's technical help and Grace's linguistic finesse we managed to buy a Panasonic digital ... [Continue reading this entry]

Posted in About Me, At the office, Bali, Changsha, China, customer service, ESL, Family, Hainan, Hunan, Indonesia, Life outside of work, tefl, tesol, Tesol certification, Travel | No Comments »

A boy, a dog and a tomato

Thursday, May 26th, 2005
We went shopping today Robert had a great need to see the traditional market and I had a great need to test-drive the new camera Wyatt had other needs ... Emily coaxed me into joining her at the market I had prepared to veg ... [Continue reading this entry]

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Snow lay all around

Wednesday, April 6th, 2005
The day dawns inappropriately bright. Snow covers the ground and the way is icy. We arrive at the church I had not seen my mom in five years and this was not the way I'd wanted to see her again She lay there ... [Continue reading this entry]

Posted in About Me, Canada, Changsha, China, ESL, Family, futility, grief, Hunan, Life outside of work, Living the dream, Mariposa, Ontario, Orillia, overseas living, Travel, vacation | No Comments »

Just returned

Saturday, February 26th, 2005
After the Winter Course 2005
We'd just finished winter course and had some travel arranged ... we took off for Hainan.
Hainan is in the south of China. Actually a tropical island.
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