Angela & Bryan Rappaport
Anj & Bry love to travel. It's that simple.Anj and Bry
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Travel Blog Posts
July 22nd 2011
So folks, I sit here writing to you again trying to recap the last 3 months of life in India. I have about 10 hours until our flight to Canada leaves, but I will try and keep this brief enough to hold your interest. Before delving into the months that have been, I guess the exciting news is our return home after a year away. We head to Ottawa tonight, will be there with the Ryans for 4 days and then are off to Toronto. I get only 2 weeks vacation this time, but Anj will be home for a full 6 weeks, so take advantage (please don't take her shopping too much, I have to eat). A year has come and gone so quickly that it doesn't feel quite like a year. It makes our ... read more
February 26th 2011
OK, so now it's been well beyond normal times between blogs and I plead nothing but laziness. The seven month itch caught up with us here and lets just say the mood wasn't right for blogging. What's the seven month itch, you ask? Thanks for asking. The seven month itch is basically the time after arriving in a place you have never lived in before that you start questioning why you came and why everything is so different and why you can't handle it any more. I am actually surprised it took so long. Wait, I guess seven months takes about the same time each time. Anywho, the same thing happened to us in Botswana, so we knew what was going on. Experts call it culture shock, but that sounds a little too much like we ... read more
December 31st 2010
Happy New Year everyone. It’s that time again; time for an update, but this is an update like no other. For the first time in what will be 30 blogs over almost 4 years, my folks make an appearance in the blog. Now, it’s true that I spent the better part of two years in Ottawa in recent years, and saw plenty of my parents, but I never thought that a blog regarding minus twenty trudges through the snow in our fair capital would have interested the masses that much, so I abstained. Three weeks have passed since my folks left time and that is usually about the amount of time that I let a trip marinate in my head until I am ready to write. So here we go. Mid December, my parents showed up ... read more
Tea Fields, Tiger Prints and one Terrible Massage
Published: December 4th 2010Asia » India » West Bengal
November 22nd 2010
NOTE: THIS BLOG HAS OVER 60 PHOTOS, LOOK AT THE BOTTOM FOR THE NEXT PAGE OF PHOTOS Hello all, First let me apologize for the long wait between blogs. The procrastination monster has reared its lazy head and I have been putting this off for too long. Not that nothing has been happening in our lives or there’s nothing to write about, but, well, sometime the words just aren’t there. Well, today, with Anj off running a how-to-fundraise workshop for 30 NGO representatives and me having a lazy Saturday to myself (read : laying on the couch eating peanut butter and coke for brunch while watching Mark Wahlberg kill some baddies), the motivation came to me. So, I believe it has been about 2 months since I last wrote and life in India is motoring along ... read more
October 5th 2010
Hi All, So it's one month later and isn't it funny how quick you can adapt to new environments when thrown right it? Delhi is starting to feel like home now and routines are slowly developing as they do no matter where you live. Living abroad definitely has its advantages and there are of course constant reminders that we ain't in Kansas anymore, but slowly, bit by bit, you start to turn your head less to stare at something that a month ago would have held you speechless. At first, it was the shock of it all; the complete and utter difference between India and any other place I had ever been. As I mentioned before, it was the smells, the sights and the sounds that were a non-stop attack on the senses after arriving; awing ... read more
August 31st 2010
Hello All, Well, hasn't it been a long time since we published one of these things? Lots has happened between when we left off in Botswana three years ago and now. Short summary. We moved back to Toronto for 6 months, then Anj got a job with the UN in Vienna, and I got one with the Foreign Service and moved to Ottawa. We spent nearly 2 years apart. Anj working to bring cancer therapy and education to developing countries, and me, training to become an Foreign Service officer in Ottawa. We saw each other enough (every 6 weeks or so) that we weren't driven completely mad, and finally, once I had passed all the tests and finished all the training, we rejoined our forces for our first posting together...in Delhi, India. So, friends, this is ... read more
May 15th 2009
Guten tag meine Herren und Frauen, Finally....yes, a new blog post! Relax - I'm busy saving the world don't you know?! The last few months have been a busy & very eventful time, never feels like there are enough hours in a day to squeeze in EVERYTHING I want to do. But, I am giving it my absolute best shot, and that involves lots of shots...and dancing! From where we last left off...Vienna continues to be grey, and rainy, and windswept for the most part, but over the last few months we have been treated to blasts of dazzling sunshine, warm weather and all of the parks, flowers, and outdoor cafes have swung into life. I can feel the summer trying to penetrate the low-hanging foggy mist that wraps itself around the city, and I can ... read more
Waiting near Mercury for Trond
Published: February 3rd 2009Africa » Tanzania » Zanzibar » Zanzibar City
February 1st 2009
Greetings all from Vienna! All is well here, the weather continues to be fairly mild and skies remain permanently misty and grey in the city. I am starting to really get into the swing of Viennese life, making friends and sampling the many fun things to do socially here. There's a great community of ex-pats to hang out with and I've started to develop a good circle of girlfriends - critical for enjoyment of life! I have recently returned from a work-related mission to Tanzania. I went to attend a conference and related meetings to do with PACT's work with the Ocean Road Cancer Institute in Dar Es Salaam. It was my first time to Dar, and it felt great to be back in Africa. Dar surprised me a little - for some reason, since you ... read more
November 24th 2008
Hi everyone! If you're getting this, you are a "remnant" from our Bots blog - feel free to take yourself off, I promise my feelings won't be hurt, we all get too much email :) I have sorted myself out here in Vienna, and am really enjoying work and living in this city. Work is fantastic - my colleagues are really interesting, smart people from all over - even in our small team it's the UN. My director is originally from Iran, we have a couple Americans, an Italian, a few Russians, a lady from Japan and now me. I have placed a small and inconspicuous Canadian flag on my wall. I know the enormous complex well enough now to get to the 3 Cs: cafeteria, coffee shop, and commisary (that dangerous basement-located purveyor of duty-free ... read more
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