HI Everyone, I am writing this from about 20,000 feet well above the city of Managua in Nicaragua. It feels kinda weird to be writing a blog entry up here but anyways hopefully I can make you feel like you are up in the air with me. At the moment we are passing over Lago Nicaragua, which is surrounded by a myriad of Volcano’s and then on the other side of the Volcano’s is lots and lots of savannah and farmland. Why am I up in the air high over Nicaragua you ask? Well I am flying back from a [View Full Entry]

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It is Sunday morning here in sunny (well rainy today) Turrialba, today I got up like most days at about 6.30am, had a delicious breakfast, laughed through our daily meeting which I turned up like all days in shorts and a singlet and right now after about eight weeks in Costa Rica I am enjoying my first morning off, sitting in our lovely staff room overlooking Volcan Turrialba writing to you all! So hands down my Raleigh experience so far has been one of the most intense, captivating, motivating and enjoyable experiences of my life. I have so many words to [View Full Entry]

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First of all greetings or Ola de Costa Rica Gosh the theme of this blog entry as you will work out is “diversity”. I could not have been to more diverse places in January if I tried! So this entry starts in my absolutely favourite city in the whole world NYC. I have to say this place gets better and better every time I visit it. I think I have now clocked three visits in the last seven years and feel like there is so much more to see! I did arrive though to NYC tired and emotional after a 24 [View Full Entry]

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Hi Everyone Happy new year… This diary entry is well overdue. The fact that people are writing to me saying “Bella when are you going to update your blog” means to me that it is really time to write and that some people are actually reading this blog and getting some enjoyment out of it. Well December was an interesting month, as I reflect and read through my diary a lot happened in that month, some incredibly fantastic experiences and some damn bad and enlightening ones (well one anyways). I will start by saying that in December and up until the [View Full Entry]

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Ok so back to English! It is now Sunday night and I am writing this entry sitting in my room listening to the Italian radio and just chilling out. As I reflect on the last three weeks (as I do when I try to write this blog) a lot has happened in this time. True to my style of not wanting to sit in the one place to long (thanks mum for reminding me of this). I have been in some serious giro (going around!). So the story begins with a quick trip up to Milano to visit one of my [View Full Entry]

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So the first thing I did before I decided to write today was to try and figure out when was the last time that I wrote, and I just figured that it has been five weeks, my longest stint without committing anything to writing on my trip to date! Perhaps there are reasons for this, the first is that I spent my first two weeks in Genova discovering the city, reading all the tourist information guides, theatre guides, getting lots of sleep, cooking lots of food and of course starting at a new school. My first two weeks in Genova I [View Full Entry]

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Ciao Ragazzi, Come Va? Io sono molto bene….. So it has been a couple of weeks since my last entry. For some reason I always choose Fridays (yet again today) to scrivo (write) my blog entries. After countless emails from people arriving to work on Monday morning receiving my email alerts I am so sorry that you have to hear about my adventures on a Monday morning, but for some reason it is entirely coincidence and hey why change my behaviour now! The adventure left off just as I was about to visit (visito) Sorrento, Vesuvio and Herculaneum all in [View Full Entry]

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Ciao, Come Va Ragazzi? (This means hi everyone how are you!!) As I write this it is Friday afternoon and I am sitting out on the terrace of my apartment with a glass of wine watching the sun setting over the holy cross on top of the mountains of the Amalfi Coast. Another school week in Italy is over so in total I have been a full time student (studentesa) learning Italian (parlo Italiano) for three weeks (tre settimana). So is that the extent of my Italian you ask? No, ma parlo poco italiano (I speak a little bit of Italian). [View Full Entry]

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La Vie Bella - Life is Good! So it has been about three weeks from my last entry and boy has that time flown. I have been so fortunate to pack so many things into the last three weeks. The focus of August for me has been food, food, food, rose, rose, rose and on the side some boating (of all types - kayaking, sailing, power boating), and some mountain walks (well one anyways). I will beak up this entry into a few bits (perhaps if you have a map of France check it out!). Solliers Pont & Hyeres - The [View Full Entry]

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We arrived back in St Malo in France at 9pm and headed straight for the car park where Betsy was waiting for us still all in tact on the outside after spending one week in the car park. During the ferry trip back to St Malo Cara was slightly nervous that we would not be able to start Betsy as she has had issues with the battery running flat if it is not used for a bit. We were very relieved when Betsy started the first time so we high-footed it out of the car park and were on our way [View Full Entry]

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