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Finally arrived after 13 hours of hell on the plane. We did get an emergency isle though so not too bad! The guy next to me was a uni student from Wollongong who got a scholarship to play basketball in the states. Pretty awesome stuff for a young guy from Aussie. Then there was the gay night club.... These two guys stood up nearly the whole flight. Drinking and flirting with each other. At one stage there was a kiss and I looked across to share my gossip with Shell only to see that she had the blanket over her head. [View Full Entry]

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Hallo allemaal, Bedankt voor alle reacties weer. Omdat de uni een week geleden weer begonnen is vond ik het weer tijd worden voor een nieuwe post. Ik hoop dat alles in Nederland een beetje goed gaat en dat de temperatuur weer wat gezakt is. Afgelopen maandag ben ik dus bij de uni begonnen en het was leuk. Ik heb van maandag t/m donderdag les en dan een paar uurtjes per dag. Ik denk dat ik 15 uur per week les heb ofzo. Het leeswerk valt ook wel mee vergeleken met Nederland ik denk 400 pagina's per week (klinkt veel, maar is [View Full Entry]

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San Francisco is too well known from all of you, so we won't go into too much detail. It is a real city in the European understanding, a city where you can walk, take the bus or the tram and leave your car at home. We stayed in a B&B in the Castro, the 'gay' neighbourhood where most of the action in the movie 'Milk' happens. As in other SF neighbourhoods, most of the old Victorian houses have been restored and it is really nice to walk around. It is not possible to speak about SF without mentioning it's bay, the [View Full Entry]

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The homeless and mentally ill of San Francisco are surprisingly accomplished at chess. How I should come across this notion, oh best beloved, I am sure you are gagging to be told. Well... As Keenan and Kel (Peace Be Upon Them) once said: awwwwwww heeeeerrre gooes! There is no end of vibrations between the sprawling blocks on the North side of the city. My stay here is chiefly of instrumental value this time around - gathering equipment for Burning Man which I do not know I need yet is the mission statement. I carry out this arduous task in parallel with [View Full Entry]

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le 28 août 2009Pour notre dernier jour à San Francisco et aux Etats-Unis, après un petit détour shopping sur Market Street, direction l'Océan Pacifique de l'autre coté de la ville. Nous mettons nos pass de transports en commun à contribution une dernière fois pour un voyage en bus d'une heure. Pas étonnant, le bus s'arrête à chaque coin de bloc, tous les 150 m à peu près. Les derniers blocs avant l'océan les maisons n'ont qu'un étage et sont mignonettes. Et voila l'océan avec ses gros rouleaux et ses surfeurs. Nous avons acheté un pique nique chez Safeways. Le temps est [View Full Entry]

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I have wanted to see the great Tim Lincecum pitch for the Giants ever since he came up to the major leagues. I finally got my chance Friday night at ATT Park in San Francisco. I invited the world's best Giant fan, Donna, to go with me. It was a shutout, highlighted by a homerun by a guy they call Panda, Pablo Sandoval, their latest batting star. I have only been to one baseball game in the last 15 years. It was in 2000, as I recall, since my son and I went, just a few days after watching Tiger play [View Full Entry]

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Yet again on the road! North America this time, and we'll keep it to the west side. First stop: San Francisco, California. It's nice to be back (for some of us) even better for the first timers. The weather is great: sunny and warm - not really a guarantee for this place. Today we started early and did all the fun stuff you can do aroud here: we took the cable car through steep streets while hanging out of it, watched the sea lions on the Pier 39, and did a boat ride under the Golden Gate and around Alcatraz... Cable [View Full Entry]

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27 août 2009Direction le quartier The Mission où il y a l'origine de San Francisco, la mission des pères franciscains installés ici du temps où le coin était espagnol vers 1750. L'église d'origine est encore là flanquée d'une basilique de 1913. le quartier est latino et très vivant avec des boutiques de design entremelées. Nous mangeons maya et l'après-midi direction Pier 39 au nord de la ville sur la baie pour voir la colonie de sea lions qui s'est installée là à demeure pour la plus grande joie des touristes. Nous restons un bon moment à regarder les gros pépères se [View Full Entry]

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I had a great time over the 3 days there. I had a really interesting experience trying to get into the festival on Friday, but Saturday I was able to just walk right in with out even being checked, and then on Sunday, Zac got me in. Pearl Jam was awesome from the 2nd row and Dave Matthews was pretty sweet too. On Sunday Zac was about to get me backstage for the new Jack White band and seeing the show from there was interesting. Then we saw Zac's favorite band, Ween. It was my first time seeing them and it [View Full Entry]

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