Blogs from Lawrenceville, Georgia, United States, North America - page 2

Nous habitons un appartement dans un complexe d'appartements. Très confortable et entièrement équipé. Nous disposons d'une piscine, d'une salle de fitness, de terrains de tennis, de BBQ, petits déjeuners et rafraichissements,... Il faut que le soleil brille encore un petit temps pour qu'on puisse en profiter ;) Pour l'instant, il fait très chaud et ensolleillé.... read more

Here I am, back at my house in the burbs. Although I can't believe that my Chile experience is over, I am glad that I'll be back at Furman tomorrow to begin my last term there. Woah. I heard some good news this week...I have an interview for Teach for America. woohoo! It's the next step in the application process, and I really want to be a part of that program so we'll see what happens. free-travel adventures: February 15th: Angela Hanor, Laura Whitesides, Suzanne Prak, and Morgan load the bus (called a "bed bus") for the 24 hour trip to San pedro de Atacama February 16th: 30 hours and two buses later, we are still on a bus. Turns out that there was a big storm and the highway was closed in some places. We ... read more

Panera Bread Co. is my friend. Thank you Panera Bread Company for your comfortable seating and free wireless internet. Today I have a few topics to cover. Towards the end you'll find a little announcment about a simulcast of my travel blog via a new medium. This is something that I'm pretty excited about, and you GIS/Geographer types should definitely have a look... but first, a few other items A run of bad luck I'm a firm believer in streaks, like in sports where a team has a winning or losing streak, or a baseball hitter is said to be "a streak hitter". One thing that's said to come in streaks is bad luck, and Sherry and I have had a bit of a medium-rare streak of bad luck: * Sherry's been dealing with some pretty ... read more

What are twin sisters for if not to remind you that you’ve forgotten something, e.g. a homework assignment, parents’ wedding anniversary, birthday of a common sibling, etc? In this case, my sister pointed out to me yesterday that I’d forgotten to tell you what we did during our two day visit to Alexandria (as did Rusty today). For fear of retribution (mainly from my sister) in the form of a low or no-value future Christmas gift, I will provide a brief summary of our activities there. I should point out that the ‘no-value gift’, also known as the ‘no-gift habit’, was practice that allowed me to make it more comfortably through the holiday season during at least one of my college years, a fact that would not be lost in my sister’s memory… …our visit to ... read more