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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year and all that good stuff! I am sorry, I've said it before, but it is much harder to blog when you have a travel companion! Claudia and I are having a wonderful adventure and we are sad that the end is in sight… We've left New Zealand behind us and we are happily nursing some hangovers and some sunburn in the beautiful country of Fiji. New Zealand flashback:

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I may march to the beat of my own drum, but from here on out I will stick to the beaten path. What I'm trying to say is I HATE the literal act of trailblazing. Claudia and I just returned from a lovely stay with a wonderful couple in the Catlins, but it turns out doing conservation work is more up Claudia's alley than my own. Just as some people may not enjoy being thrust into the teacher's

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*the title of this blog explains what I have been doing for the past hour... I typed the blog on Claudia's computer, thinking that I would at least be able to slip in one blog while in the Catlins, but this has been a nightmare. No more blogging/internet until we depart!*Hello, hello. I’m finding it a lot more difficult to blog now that I have a travel companion… Claudia and I are having a

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Hello internet world, Claudia here! This is my first blog post and I hopeI don't disappoint. I am in charge of telling you about our adventures inIga Warts and what adventures we had! If I could rename the place I think"Crazy Farm" would be appropriate. Terry, later deemed Scary Terry, wasour main host with his wife Josie, who was not the nicest woman in theworld. When we first arrived Terry and

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Holy smokes! Claudia and I have just returned from quite the Outback adventure! We met up in Adelaide and had a lovely dinner at a Greek restaurant (I missed cheese so much!) and left early the next morning with Hayden, our aboriginal tour guide. Our first stop was at a camel farm where we embarked on a camel-back ride through a native pine forest. I spotted my first kangaroos and let out a yelp

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* so sorry that it has taken so long to post... the computers in the outback have not allowed me to sign into the blog. i am on a sneak mission connecting claudia's computer to the computer in dude's office. have written one blog about last day in thailand on the computer which i will upload now and will write more tomorrow when we return to a real city**for some reason i could only get the blog

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I will not write for long because I'm in a bad mood and nobody needs to read about that... I had a terrible experience at my hotel this morning after I complained about the fact that my phone was broken, the internet stopped working in the midst of my use, and my room was next to a construction sight that started working so early this morning. The manager was so rude to me that he made me cry and

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I have just had one of the most incredible and humbling experiences of my life. I returned yesterday from a four day homestay in a village that was completely destroyed by the tsunami. The village is still in the process of being rebuilt close to the sight of the old village, but much farther away from the sea. It is sad to hear the stories of how the children used to play in the sea, but now

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Today I am in Oudoxomy (I think that's what its called...) in the North of Laos and we are volunteering at a school created to support Lao minorities. There are 22 different minority groups that attend the school. This allows children from very tiny villages to come together and get an education. Considering the fact that most of the minority groups speak their own language, this is quite an

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So far, I have only been able to create one album. Follow this link to see photos from my rice barge adventure in Thailand:http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2013094&l=62f93&id=55100678Will upload more as soon as possible.Laos:http://guilford.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2013324&l=40e64&id=55100678teaching at minority school (not all the photos uploaded... more to come):http://

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I am about to have an anxiety attack because this computer is being so frustrating!!! I have downloaded all of my photos onto a disk and therefore should be able to upload them onto this here blog, but to no avail. I may have to download them onto my facebook account and post the links here... Another day of teaching at the SOS school here in Luang Prabang. Apparently SOS Children's Village is a

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Today we volunteered at a local orphanage/boarding school. Upon entering the school there is a sign in English that says, "Practice Make Perfect." I taught year six which is all children between the age of 9 and 12. Amar, the British journalist was my teaching partner. This morning we were supposed to have an introduction to the school and be given information on what the kids have been studying

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I am filthy! Just returned from a glorious day trip rock climbing in the Laotian mountains! Today was our scheduled 'free day' and yesterday, as we toured Luang Prabang, I noticed an adventure package that would take me on a climb! Its probably been over three years since I've been on the rock, but it's just like riding a bike. Those of you who knew me in my youthful days (aka before I started

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I made a friend! I had a tour of Bangkok this morning that I could have skipped. Despite the tourist overload, the royal palace was beautiful and I bought a gigantic book that explains the entire mural that surrounds the palace, but it was so hot and touristy and I was forced to wear my jeans to respect the king and I was slightly miserable with the combination of the heat and my cold.

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Holy smokes, ladies and gentlemen, I have stepped through the looking glass! After a seventeen hour flight next to a drunk bear, I stepped out into another world. Are you aware that there is a twelve hour time difference between Thailand and the US? I was not.... The time warp has worked to my advantage because those around me believe that I am a morning person happy to wake up and offer alms to

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November 24 - Arrive in Adelaide, Australia, meet up with Claudia!!!November 25 - visit Wadlata Outback Centre, camel ride exploring Flinders RangesNovember 26 - hike in Wilpena Pound, gorge hike through Brachina and Bunyeroo GorgesNovember 27 - hike through Gammon Ranges National Park, Italawi Gorge, Balcanoona Ranges Head Quarters and Wetootla Gorge, ridge top hike to Sillers Lookout, evening

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October 29 - Leave USAOctober 30 - Arrive Bangkok, ThailandNovember 1-3 - Three day cruise on traditional rice barge stopping in small fishing villages along the wayNovember 3 - Arrive in Ayudhaya, ruins of Thailand's formal capitolNovember 4 - Fly to Luang Prabang, Laos and meet up with journalist to tour cityNovember 4-7 - tour Luang PrabangNovember 7-9 - Volunteer at SOS School of Luang

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Testing, testing, one, two, three. If you have come to this page on purpose then you are a friend and loved one who has been invited here to peek into the worlds that I will soon be exploring. This is officially my first 'blog' and I aim to entertain. I leave on October 29th, 2007. I return on January 8th, 2008. There's a lot of time in between for wonderful adventures.My first stop is Laos to

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