I have mentioned before that the biggest thing I am taking from my Paris experience is the friends that I made. I did not anticipate to make true friends that I will always cherish and keep in touch with for the rest of my life, and I feel so fortunate to have made not one, but many. I wanted to create a blog entry to share pictures of good times with many of them. [View Full Entry]

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So those of you who don’t know, I decided to head to South Africa for the weekend, lol. Ok, so I was there for five days. Thierry and I had been talking about going to South Africa for a couple of months and when March rolled around and we hadn’t gone yet, we decided we had better get our butts in gear. By the way, having a fantastically nice roommate who works for Air France is wonderful! A couple of days before we were supposed to leave, something came up and Thierry was not going to be able to leave with [View Full Entry]

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It has been a very long time since I have written. I have been holding off, waiting for some good news of a job. Well, I have lots of leads for jobs, but nothing has come through yet, but I am hopeful. I did manage to get a short consulting contract with UNESCO though and there are talks about another. Having said that, I have not seen the contract yet, and my ticket home came up first. The plan from the trip all along was to come home on April 1st, and here I sit, April 1st on a United Airlines [View Full Entry]

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So, now that I can say I lived in Paris for 6 months, I am often asked, what was your favorite thing. One of my favorite things to do in Paris is go to the Marais, walk around and eat at my favorite falafel restaurant, L’as du Fallafel. Mmmmm, they are soooo good. The Marais is the Jewish and gay district of Paris and there are a number of really cute shops and most of the streets are cobble stone. There are a number of vintage stores in this area and you can see where all the fur goes to become [View Full Entry]

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Foz de Iguazu The falls in Iguazu were breath-taking! We decided since we were so close, we could manage the 5-6 hour drive to the east coast of the country, head into Brazil and visit the Falls. It was so amazing and gorgeous. We had heard about taking a boat and getting dipped by the falls, so we decided that we were going to do it. We thought it was going to cost us about $40, but we were wrong - more like $75! Oh well, it was so worth it. We traveled through a protected forest and were taken to [View Full Entry]

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Hello blog readers, lol. In the summer of 2007 I travelled to Paraguay on a Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) project dealing with sustainable tourism and private sector development. I wrote an entry for the trip a long time ago, but had not started this blog yet. I have decided to post it, to keep all of my travel blogs in one place. I don't have many pictures of Asuncion (the capital city) on this computer, but I will post some of my favorites from other parts of the country. Wow, Paraguay is great. The people in this country are so [View Full Entry]

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So, like every first Sunday of the month, I headed out to a museum - I love free museum day, hehe. I decided that I would finally go to Museum D’Orsay because I keep talking about it and never do it. It was really nice. It was a good mix of sculptures and paintings and not as overwhelming as the Louvre. I arrived a little after ten and the line up to get in was just over ½ an hour long. Once in, I started by checking out the mask exhibit (no pictures, sorry) and wandered around some of the sculptures. [View Full Entry]

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So I finally left Paris for a weekend! My friend Mandy had her friend, Daniel, visiting from Canada and the three of us decided to go to Madrid for the weekend. It was really nice to get out of Paris for a bit. I was shocked, however, at how polluted Madrid was. I felt that I could taste the pollution in the air. After that, and coming back to Paris, I am really starting to miss the clean BC air. The first day in Madrid we didn’t get out to the city until the evening. When we did get downtown, we [View Full Entry]

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The interns at UNESCO decided to get in the holiday spirit the other day and we had a secret Santa get together. It was a fun time and started to get me in the xmas spirit. That night, my friend Emilie and I decided to head to Champs Elysses and check out the holiday lights. Thierry recently got back from Japan and there was a sale on cameras. I decided to get a new one, hence the better night shots. The next day we decided to check out some vintage shops and Christmas markets. The vintage shops was so crowded and [View Full Entry]

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This Sunday will mark one month in Paris - wow, a month already. I have really enjoyed learning random facts about Paris. For instance, it is illegal for a business in Paris to be open seven days a week. If a business wants to be open on Sunday it has to have a special permit and be closed on another day of the week. If a company is open on a Sunday without the proper permit, it will be fined. I find this very interesting. So, the big news of the day…I got an internship with UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific [View Full Entry]

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