So my plans have taken a slight turn, and I now have found myself in Norwich Connecticut, back in the US much sooner than I had expected. Last Friday I got an email from my baseball coach at Wesleyan with a bizarre proposition. It was like deja-vu from two years ago when he left a message on my cell phone asking if I was interested in playing baseball in Lithuania. But this time, it was not a playing opportunity; it was a movie opportunity. He told me that there was a movie that would be filmed in a week or so [View Full Entry]

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big disappointment... my recently NEW hostmom kicked me out, before I moved in. No reason, no call no mail..no NOTHING...yep....people who suck everywhere!!!! Thanks to my wonderful regional manager I have a new hostfamily now. A family of 5 ( 2 girls one boy)..busy schedule BUT: a wonderful family...great people....AND I will have my own car, that I can use! I am FOR THE FIRST time absolutely happy with my agency - grateful to my RM Kristin....THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! So: I will be living in Santa Monica, right outside of LA - yes I am still in that area... to [View Full Entry]

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Hi everyone, Sunday, 9/17: Yesterday we drove miles and miles (actually kilometers & kilometers..about 300 of them)¡¦just stopping at tag sales and Antique shops. Southern Ontario is beautiful¡¦¡¦the farms & houses are interspersed¡¦.and everyone¡¯s house is just perfectly landscaped with lots of Impatiens, Petunias, Sunflowers and Canna lilies. Along the roadside, tons of Goldenrod is beautifully intermixed with purple Aster. We came back along the shores of Lake Erie (pic attd). Today we drove about as far, but in a different direction¡¦.we ended up at an apple fe [View Full Entry]

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Only a week left and then my adventures begin... On September 27, 2006 at 2:28 PM I will be flying Continental Airlines from Bradley International Airport in Hartford. At 4:20 PM I will arrive at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, boarding again at 5:00 PM and settling in Seattle, Washington at 6:55 PM at Seattle International Airport. The 174 city bus will take me at around 7:30 PM to the Hosteling International Hostel on 84 Inion Street. (You can see pictures of the place I'm staying at www.hiseattle.org) [View Full Entry]

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Hey, I am back from a great trip. This Saturday Julia and I wanted to go to Boston, because she hasn't been there yet. Unfortunately the weather forecast said that Boston will be very rainy on sat. morning. So we decided to go on Sunday *no problem* But there was a surprise waiting for us.... a really goooood one! Julia called me 11am on Saturday, telling me that her host dad gave her $100 - as a reward for her working so much this week and as a "go-away" present for me ( I am going to CA in 3 weeks). [View Full Entry]

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Hi everyone, We left on Thursday, 9/7, around 10:00 am. Arrived in Verona, NY at 3:40 pm. We stayed the night, courtesy of the Oneida Indian Tribe…..(their Casino parking lot). We did, of course, go in and have dinner and Jim played a little at the Blackjack table. Friday morning we ‘hit the road’ again about 9:00 am and arrived at our first ‘official’ stop in Gasport, NY. This is where we are right now. We are at a campground…..it’s an old style campground…probably what most of you will think of, when you think of campgrounds. It [View Full Entry]

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YES!!! 2 days ago something happened, what should have happened a while ago. NO not that George W. Bush commited suicide..I got a phone call from my AP company, telling me, that the family I haven been e mailing with for about a week would like to welcome me as their new Au Pair. HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY The really really great news is that they live in San Diego right now, but they are moving to Malibu Beach (David Hasselhoff kingdom *hahaha*) which is located about 15 minutes from LA! I cannot wait to go there.....3 more weeks. The family is [View Full Entry]

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It already started yesterday night. Shows, Documentations, short movies about this dark day in the history of the United States. This morning began like every other one: drinking coffee, playing with the kids and laughing about stupid jokes with my host mom. At 8.30 I switched on the TV to see what happend in the world and there I realized - it was 9/11! The tv didn't get turned off for the next 4 hours and the same sadness and speechlessness overcame me, just like in the last 5 years! In the evening I went to a street mass at the [View Full Entry]

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Hey guys. So now I think I finally found the possibility to tell all of you ( without writing mails and mails) what's been going on in the last year, and what will happen in the next 10 months. I *hopefully* found a new Hostfamily in San Diego - California. A single Mom and a 9 year old daughter. They seem to be really nice and I cannot wait to get the final call from her, that's I will be living with them for the next year. The best thing is, that they move in December. They will move to Mailbu [View Full Entry]

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In this Update, I will discuss one of the most esoterically profound questions in the history of man. This brain buster ranks right up there with some of the famously engrossing queries in history: If a tree falls in the forest, but no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound? Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Is George Bush the missing homo sapien link between chimps and humans? The question is: Is it an accident if it doesn’t leak from the diaper? Let me preface this thought that will be occupying your minds for the [View Full Entry]

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