Blogs from British Columbia, Canada, North America - page 421

Getting closer, only two more sleeps. Here is the itinerary taken from the travel booklet that all students will have. Saturday March 17th Get to the Vancouver International Airport by 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, March 17th. We will meet in the International Departures area by China Eastern Airlines. Our flight # is China Eastern Airlines MU582 Sunday March 18th Arrive at Shanghai MARCH 18 & 19 EXPRESS BY HOLIDAY INN PUTUO SHANGHAI Tel: (86-21) 61421818 No. 842 Guangfuxi Road www.expressbyholiday inn.com.cn Monday March 19th 7:30 am Morning call 8:00am Breakfast in hotel 8:30 am depart for Hanshan Temple 11:00 am tour Silk factory 12:00 noon lunch 1:00 pm Grand Canal by boat 2:00 pm Shantung Water Village 5:00 pm The Bund Tuesday March 20th 7:30 am Morning call * bags must be packed 8:00am Breakfast in ... read more

Several years ago some of my co-workers and I visited Gray Bay, a beautiful beach south of Sandspit on Moresby Island, Queen Charlotte Islands. This octopus was in a tidepool in some rocks, which was draining and soon would be dry as the water receded. We followed him? her? sliding from the tidepool to the each and into the sea - he or she moved almost at a walking pace over a uprising distance. One of the crew's dogs got a little too curious and almost recieved a snoutfull of ink and seawater. Grey Bay is an excellent campground choice for visitors to the Queen Charlotte Islands. In the summer it is comparable to Tofino's Long Beach, without a dangerous surf and no crowds. Services are available at Sandspit, including car rentals and fuel (check ... read more

Ok so we have been a bit slack in getting a site/blog together but finally we had done it after much frustration (and money) at various Internet cafes! So as all our friends and family know we left for our travels at the end of February and spent our first week in Vancouver just basically sussing things out. We did some touristy things like going to Grouse Mountain (Vancouver's local hill) for Em's first snowboarding lesson and other general city sight seeing. We then made our way up to the 'White North' of Whistler to try and become snowboarding bums. To our surprise this happened more easily than we thought and we scored some jobs and accommodation in the first few days- too easy! We stayed there for about 5-6 weeks and then decided we would ... read more

这周我们又回到了市内，进行室内训练。什么公众演讲，媒体演讲，媒体写作，沟通交流，筹款方法和技巧等等。几个不同的老师教我们不同内容。还不错，我也是第一次做过这样的培训。每天坐在室内6，7小时。虽然说是野外训练后的休息，可是，坐着我老想睡觉。 ... read more

Wow, take it from experience. Do not book two different tickets for flights on one trip. If all of the flights are on one ticket one would simply find out the requirements for the airline you get on to at origin and pick them up at the end. But with two separate tickets there is the problem of complying with two different airline’s conditions with one set of luggage or pay extra. Well I’ve heard a couple of people tell me that since my plane leaves just two hours after arrival in Johannesburg, South Africa that Virgin Atlantic airlines will probably transfer the luggage otherwise we are paring down in South Africa and I hope that the two suitcases of donations get to a worthy cause there. Then there’s carryon… I had to leave a ... read more