Ok it has taken me a long while to publish this and the following blog entries. I have been extremely slack and I apologise to all those who have been waiting to read them. But here you go with photos and all. ___________________________________________________________________ What a better way to end 2006 and start 2007 than a trip to the snow with friends. I headed off with 5 friends (Mic, James, Daniel, Belinda & Rebecca) on an organised tour thingy to Flaine which is in the French Alpes. It was a 18 hour bus trip which involved me getting to know 3 people [View Full Entry]

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So much has happened this year and it's taken ages for me to get off my butt to do a blog and load up some photos. So here is a bit of an overview. Earlier this year I became good friends with Mic who is friends with a mate back home. Since then we've done quite a bit together and no, for all you out there raising their eyebrows, he is not a boyfriend just a good mate. In June we headed off to Sardinia for a week. Sardinia is an island of the west coast of Italy. We hired a [View Full Entry]

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Ok, I know I've been a bit slack seeing I started writing this 2 months ago but have only just got around to adding the photos. So here is the last installment of my Columbia & Guatemala trip. Back in Bogota again and it was still a bit over whelming. Although my spanish has now become existant I'm still struggling. People here speak very fast unlike Guatemala where everyone just cruised along. but the good thing is that I can understand so much more than I did before and in a round about way can have a very basic conversation. If [View Full Entry]

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Well the last 2 weeks have been pretty mad. Much drinking and dancing. It's been great but I'm starting to think that the big nights or the hangovers in the morning have been impacting on my ability to learn Spanish. I've made a great little group of friends from all over which I've been having a ball with. The only problem was that we basically ended up in a bar every night. But the salsa clubs were great. Basically you would walk in and guys would ask you to dance. And the best part was that most of them didn't try [View Full Entry]

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I have to say that so far this trip has been amazing. I have seen so many fabulous things in the last week I'm going into overload. The weekend was no exception. I visited three amazing sites of acient Mayan cities and all I can say is WOW. But I will start from the beginning. I travelled with a fellow student from school, Regina who is from the USA. She was pretty cool and very interesting. We flew into to Flores which is in the north of Guatemala on Friday night. Basically nothing to really share with you for Friday. Pretty [View Full Entry]

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We made it to Guatemala and what can I say but culture shock. I'm living with a lovely Guatemalian family who only speak to me in Spanish. It is an interesting experience. Each day I understand a little more and can sort of now have conversations with them. I am living with a family which consists of the grandparents, husband and wife and wife's sister, three children and grandchild. very confusing. It is great though. They also serve me Guatemalian food which is good because they don't eat a lot of meat so it isn't a battle to try and explain [View Full Entry]

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Well here I go on another adventure. First stop Columbia for 2 days. What can I say but "Wow, what a surprise!" Everyone I have met has been wonderful. I stayed with my friend, Steven's family. They were all wonderful. They showed me the city and were very hospitalible. I went out on my first night to a bar in Columbia with Steven's friend Jenni. She and her friends were great. Unfortunately I was so tired so I struggled but I did manage to stay out until 3.30am. It was great. Everyone danced. Salsa, samba, merangue and other dances I don't [View Full Entry]

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Wow I can't beleive I've been back for nearly 2 months. It feels like I haven't been home for 6 months. Staight back into the humdrum life of work and now study. I've returned to study at Kingston University which at the moment I'm wondering if it was one of my brightest decissions due to the amount of work I've got to do. Oh well I know that lovely peice of paper at the end will pay off. Over the Easter long weekend 3 of my friends and I decided to do a road trip to Newquay which is in Cornwall [View Full Entry]

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Hi everyone, Well I've been back in London for nearly 3 weeks & unfortunately I've aclimatised myself back into the bleak, grey, cold, wet........... Since I've been back all I have done is dreamed about the nice warm weather & blue skies that you all have, minus the big storm that decided to blow in on my birthday. But I am kinda happy to be back in jolly ol London. I do want to say that it was great to see you all and I wish I had had more time to spend with you. My time home was absolutely exhausting. [View Full Entry]

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Hi all, Well yes I know I have been really, really slack and really I have no excuse for it at all. Since my last entries I have returned to work which has been an interesting challenge for me. Made new friends and caught up with some old ones. Most of the things I have been doing have become a bit of a blurr, and no it isn't related to my alcohol intake, well maybe just a little. I was lucky enough to see a bit of live AFL football in London. Fremantle v West Coast. It was a delightful outcome [View Full Entry]

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