Blogs from North America - page 9001

I find it interesting that airports have become part of corporate america. I'm sitting hear waiting for my flight to San Juan and there is an hour delay. This is the first time I have flown out of Newark Airport in a very long time. Just observing and seeing how technology and society have impacted our culture at the airports is amazing. Looking around its like rush hour in New York, Philadelphia and any other major metropolitan area. Corporate America has changed the airports of yesterday. Have made them into strip malls, with retail stores, fastfood chains, spas, private membership clubs, and much more. It all about rush hour and the impatient of society, the technology at theses places ensure that everything is out timely and precisley just like in strip malls and any other corporate ... read more

Right..... so I am in Wyoming!!! INSANE I Know!!! as the plane circled the town i coulden't help but wonder what a city girl like myself was doing visiting a town that seemed helpless in the middle of the vast desert! When I got off the plane a good friend of mine from Whitworth was there to greet me along with some huge gusts of wind... The wind here is absolutly insane.... and there is loads of real live (well more so dead) tumble weed!!!! how totaly wild west!!! Anyways... Alicia took me around town and showed me the sites... I was actually surprised to see that Cody is a pretty substantial town... I am attepting to withold judgement untill i spend some more time here... We made home made ice cream the first night here ... read more

This blog is all about WILDLIFE!!!! between the three of us we took about 600 photos on the trip (thank god for digital cameras) but don't worry we couldn't fit them all ..... so only up loaded the good ones! Jan (Mel's mum) came over to visit and the next day we headed up to Anchorage in Alaska. The flight left Vancouver in the evening and we didn't get to Anchorage till after midnight, flying in over the snow and mountains which surrounded the city was a fabulous introduction to the "Land of the Midnight Sun!" as it truly was still light when we arrived. We picked up a hire care and headed to our hotel to crash! The next day we headed south to Seward (a small fishing village) where we took a 6 hour ... read more

Okay so last Saturday, I woke up and looked around. I managed to get up. Johan and I ate breakfast, though mine was just a banana. Then, Robin and Mia met us and we all got in the car. We all left for the airport, complete with Fuzzy my stuffed teddy bear, my suitcases, and my backpack. We got to the airport, then they went through baggage with me and through to the gate. I hugged everyone goodbye. I almost cried, but I managed to control myself somehow. On the plane from Lulea to Stockholm, I had breakfast. Yay for Swedish milk, lingonberry yogurt, and bregot (butter). I sat next to a nice German businessman. So then I got to Stockholm. Even though I tried, I didn't see the wooden horses Sweden is famous for. So ... read more

Hey All, I´ve safely arrived in Querétaro and am settling into life before classes start. I am very lucky to be within walking distance to campus and to internet cafés, the restaurant where my host mother works (Gloria), and small tiendas. I am rooming with student from Nebraska named Megan. She speaks Spanish quite well, so I´m learning a lot from her. We only speak Spanish with our house! We really made it through the airport thing well. The bus ride from Mexico City to Querétaro took almost 3 hours and was seemed very long! We arrived on campus around 10:00 and went out to eat. The restaurant was called Tacos 57 and is kind of like Chipotle, where you pick your meat and other stuffings. The toritillas are green and awesome! Then they set a ... read more