Rajasthan Adventure Part 1 from Squeezy on Vimeo.
The first 7 days of my trip to Rajasthan in January 2009. We did the GAP Adventures tour: Rajasthan Adventure.
This video covers: Old Delhi, Jodhpur, Ranakpur and Udaipur.
It's hot here. It's been hot for a while and.. I don't like it!
I'm prepared to make an exception for Thailand, which will have summer but, to compensate, there will be stunning beaches, showers (from the sky variety), wonderful thai food and glorious thai massages. Oh the massages..... Just rub my feet and smack me around with some mystery herb balls.
I'm really excited about the flight, thai airways YEAH! And the hotel sounds cool - the windows are in the shape of a L. Nearby there is a bar, where there are no chairs only beds. Sounds weird but cool. I hope Mike can get in, they might look at his hair and say "you've got to be kidding". I hope not though. I'm going to get the pink back in my hair before we travel - not that it lasts a long time but I like it.
After thailand and some very serious relaxing, we'll be in Sydney, for a day then on to Tassy! We realised that if we were going to do any touristy stuff in Australia then we should get out of Sydney. And at the beginning when Mike's family are away. I'm really looking forward to seeing my family and hugging them all. A few times each.
Tassy. The Gangwon-do of Australia. If that gives you any ideas of what Gangwon-do is like, you're probably right. Except that women are famed for their beauty.
Tassy will be great, Mike's found us a cafe in Hobart to visit. He got talking to the owner when he was watching the World Barista Championship. So we'll be paying a visit to Tasmania's Champion Barista. I'm really hoping that they'll be open for breakfast. The plan is Hobart for 2 days then we'll be heading up to Launceston to visit our friends there. Launceston was lovely last time we visited and we're hoping to chill out while exploring the area a bit further.
So I really should get back to packing & setting up my ipod. Enough procrastination!!
Speaking of procrastination.... here are the photos from the English Camp that Mike & I taught at on Sunday and Monday.
I've been away.. from my blog. There is so much that's happened since my last proper post that I'm not sure where to start. And not being sure where to start has given me the excuse to procrastinate. A lot.
So to bring you kind-of sort-of up to date; here goes.
I've been to Australia, caught up with some friends and family. Missed quite a few people and met other friends in person for the first time. I played the tourist in Tasmania and found it to be a beautiful place filled with absolute sweethearts. (Course can't tell the guys that they are the sweethearts probably ruining their macho rep.)
We went up to the blue mountains with family. Enjoyed the wood fires and the food, oh sigh the food!!! Finally got around to finishing the tennis grudge match against my brother, turns out he's quite good at sledging but not so good at finishing out a long game of tennis. I won by the way! Yeah me!!
We ate Galbi and Samgyeobsal with my Dad and brother. It wasn't all that bad for Korean food but the surprise on the waitress' face when Mike asked for Denjangjjigae was priceless!
I coloured my hair pink. It was going to be a hilarious surprise for Mike but he decided to visit me at the hairdressers - while I had black looking goo on my head. You win some, you lose some...
We got back to Taebaek, packed up our apartment and ran off to Orientation. We had a brilliant five days getting to know all the new people. Which concluded with our wedding anniversary. The ACs (Alex's Cronies) got together and organised a cake, a speech, some red wine. It was lovely. I almost cried but thankfully didn't! I made the video to show what Orientation was like. Everyone liked it. Or they told me they did...
We had major dramas with our new massage parlour apartment and ended up being moved into a second new apartment. Our new place has crappy water pressure and is an extra 10 minutes out of town and we can smell the pig farms when the wind blows the right way. However the new place is lovely, we have great big windows so we can see our view (across the valley and up the mountain), it's quiet in a way that is relaxing and I finally have my own desk!! Anyone who suggests that Mike & I could possibly share a desk doesn't know Mike very well!
Last month I had to teach a demo class, which means I get to be watched and scrutinized. However many of the teachers that should have been there didn't turn up so it was less of an event for me. The teachers that were there thought I did a wonderful job with my co-teacher and that we had actually demonstrated team teaching. Which was fantastic as I wasn't all that worried if we showed a good example, I was trying to show different activities that could be used successfully in the classroom.
Last weekend was the Kotesol conference, it was full of books, lectures, publishers, writers and English teachers. Mike & I ended up with some heavy bags and I'm hoping that we'll be able to put these new materials to good use. I can but hope.
Being in Seoul means there's always a party to go to and last Saturday night was no exception. Mike & I enjoyed a spot of decent thai food before joining up with everyone at Geckos in Itaewon, Seoul. While walking over, I slipped on my pink angel wings as I figured I may as well dress up for a Halloween party. I'd already applied the glitter so I was ready to go. We found the bar and just before we headed upstairs, we stopped to watch a sneaky spiderman scaring people with his web (a piece of netting). I was amazed that people kept walking past a tree where large group of people were standing around laughing. It was all in good fun and the scarees seemed to think it funny too. So we joined up with approximately 35 EPIKers from Gangwon-do and had a great time. I chatted with people, met some gorgeous Korean women, took a bunch of photos then surrendered my camera to Mike and myself to the dance floor. There are quite a few photos that I was surprised (to say the least) to see when I downloaded the contents of the memory card. I'm sure you can work out which is which!
That's as much as I'm willing to talk about now :)
