Blogs from Guelph, Ontario, Canada, North America - page 3

24th June 2008 Got up early (6am) mainly because it felt like midday. Amy went out for a run and left me talking to the neighbours at 6-30am in the morning. Mike and Sue had depleted the tea bag stock with their visit to Amy so have had to go to shops for essentials like tea bags, bread and milk. Dinah still feeling a bit delicate after her migraine of the last two days and so an easy day was called for. Amy went off to school and left Dinah and me with a list of jobs to do. Before the jobs were completed Amy was back at home on a morning break. After she went back to school we went for a walk into Guelph and stopped at the bakery for a delicious lunch. When ... read more

So the plan is now to leave july 20th and come back with Angelina August 30th.. So here is a quick run down of all the flights I have to make: toronto-philadelphia-madrid (stop in philly why?) madrid-barcelona(same day maybe...or next?) barcelona-madrid(meet up with ange in madrid) madrid-london(with ange to start tour!!) and then option to end the trip in amsterdam or finish in london so flights would be amsterdam - madrid or london-madrid and finally madrid-philadelphia-toronto (from 3pm-10pm in philly...thank god flying w ange!) two flights almost adding up to 30hours...plus all those intermediate ones of about 2 hours or 4 hours each...wow...lots of flying this summer cannot wait!!!! ... read more

So the dates have yet to be totally confirmed for the flight. However, Angelina and I are taking a long month tour through Europe (yay!!!) We will be travelling through 11 countries during that month. This is just how the plans go....Cannot wait to put the pictures and blogs up!!! Paulina... read more

So for those who already know, Katie and I are leaving you fine people and heading to the great continent of AFRICA!!! We are going to Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda! I think this is going to be the adventure of a life time, full of laughs, tears and probably some disturbances to the GI system!!!! Stay tuned for more details of our african adventure......... ... read more

Well, only a few days and Hanmu & I are jetting off to China (via Chicago)! We leave this coming Sunday (July 1st) at 8am from Toronto!!! But before we head off, and being responsible students of medicine, we thought that it would be good to get ready for any disease that may be thrown at us! Therefore, we have taken (I'm quite sure) every vaccine and prophylactic available to us. Here is just a short list: Hep A Hep B Typhoid Tetanus + Diptheria (booster) Flu (unfortunately, not against avian flu :( ) Dukoral (cholera + ETEC) anti-malarial (lariam - who know you could take perscription haleucinogens...) And that is just perscribed drugs. If, and when, we get the plague we are bringing an assortment of "over the counter" pharmaceuticals: advil ibuprofen motrin tylenol cold ... read more