Blogs from San Francisco, California, United States, North America - page 204

This past summer I spent a little over 3 months in San Francisco, working with the Center for Student Missions (CSM www.csm.org). My job was City Host, and this entailed me leading groups of students (usually from the ages 13-17, but I did have one adult group) around the city working on service projects. We spent time at soup kitchens, kid summer camps, food banks and other organizations supporting people in need in the city. It was an amazing experience, it was hard work both physically and emotionally draining but very rewarding. There were 8 City Hosts and 2 City Directors (that live there full time), and I was very blessed to have had the opportunity to work such great individuals. I learned so much from them and they encouraged, supported and made me laugh when ... read more

to all my wee irish lovelies - how jealous are you ? - hope you all loved your early morning texts of me completely and utterly excited by my experience yesterday on our first day in san fran : first we stumble into a bar selling Magners cider on tap, then we get to see SAW DOCTORS live in concert in SAN FRAN!!! and they were fantastic !! couldn't believe my eyes - we were walking from our hotel to the harbour area - good 30 min walk or so eyeing up all the sights - the cable cars, lombard street (the famous crooked street) etc. and all of a sudden some bright lights in front of us were "SAW DOCTORS" with people queueing outside - I was soooo excited when we realised the concert was ... read more

Hello friends and family! This is my first entry so I please be patient. I hope to get better at this as we go along! :) I'll be landing in Paris and then on to the train to head to Provence, where I will rendezvous with my parents for a couple of days before we head off to see the town of Toullouse and other sites in the country side area in the south of france. Please check back often, as I'll try to do my best to update as frequently as possible. Also, I'm still learning how to integrate photo's taken. So for this first entry, I'm putting up a couple of recent pictures of me just for reference in case anything happens! Please email me often, and I promise I will respond to all ... read more

The following day we found a great rv park literally minutes from the strip. It also had a pool and brand new gym!! We decided to continue the celebrations and spent the day in a indoor theme park at Circus Circus. There were hardly any queues so John made us go on this looping, fast, scary roller coaster 20 times in a row and my head was so sore from screaming. He just laughed on all of the really scary rides. That night we had a really nice dinner in the fake venetian town and walked around the Italian boutiques. The nest day we made a HUGE mistake. We hadnt eaten all day and it was about 5 pm so we thought why not go to a buffet at the Monbte Carlo. Well, we got so ... read more

It's absolutely a cool feeling when you're sitting in a cafe talking to an attractive man, then he proudly intruduces his cute boyfriend to you. Ahh...How disappointing! But indeed, men couples have created a beautiful picture holding hands under the rainbow flag in this gay community, Castro. Unfortunately, I came here with my beloved mother so didn't dare to stay too much longer. Chinatown in SF is another highlight to my surprise. It's home to many fine antiques, high quality arts and crafts. You can sit down and listen to old Chinese street artists playing ErHu, I don't remember seeing that kinda scene even in China nowaday. Grant Avenue's prosperous and drug-free image does give me a ancient Tang dynasty feel. whereas many other Chinatowns that I've seen look more like QingRenJie than TangRenJie. Anyways, heard ... read more