Other than the day that we seemed to have had a monsoon (don't check the news...it wasn't really one), the last little while has been marked with beautiful sunny days here in Tennessee. So nice in fact that baseball season started here last week! I know...a little early, right? I might not even have known that it had started except the baseball field is right next to my building and their first game was mid-afternoon on a weekday. Still could have missed it though. But I didn't because loud and clear on a crisp sunny day came a live rendition of [View Full Entry]

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I now exist in the USA. Some of you think that I existed here before - why wouldn't a Canadian exist in the USA? I did physically exist here before...but I now have credit here! I know...so exciting. If you have never met/work with an international student in any country - you should know that credit from your home country doesn't transfer. It doesn't matter that you have had a bank account since you were 12, or that you have a or many credit cards, or student loans, or car payments...etc. You have to start from scratch in your host country. [View Full Entry]

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Today is the first day it has snowed in East Tennessee… only I wouldn’t call it snow. It looks a little bit like the ash that fell when I was in Mexico City and the volcano Popocateptl was acting up…hmm or maybe a bit like the pollen that flies through the sky in spring. It kind of blows around aimlessly, never really hitting the ground. Sometimes one snowflake sticks to my jacket, and I see where the people who make those paper-cut out snowflakes get their designs. Don’t get me wrong though…it is still cold! Well, by cold I mean that [View Full Entry]

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I can't believe this summer has gone by so quickly! I could not have asked for a better time during my stay in Boston. This city has so much to offer, and I am leaving tomorrow with many things left undone. As usual, I left some of it right until the last possible minute, but the truth is that every day has been busy since I left school at the end of May. This last weekend was my favorite here in Boston though, since Daren and I took the opportunity to go to Cape Cod. If you have not been, then [View Full Entry]

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