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Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Squished
A friend of mine just returned from India, she has told me stories about how crowded it is there. I can’t imagine how crowded India must be, because I already find Budapest crowded. Going home after work reminds me of High School, the school was so over crowded that the their would be frequent “traffic […]
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Friday, February 8th, 2008
My Global Domination Continues
Hope you heard your email on Jeff O’Neil Mail this morning at 8:15!
Thanks for listening all the way from Budapest!
Charis
Morning Show Skirt
Jeff O’Neil Show
99.3 The Fox
Western Canada’s #1 Modern Rocker
Vancouver, B.C.
http://www.cfox.com
Is it just me, or does Madonna look like a pale Bruce Lee?
—–Original Message—–
From: email@scottelliott.com [mailto:email@scottelliott.com]
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 6:19 AM
To: CRVAN CFOX Morning […]
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
Updated Map
Now that I am well past the half way point in my adventure, I have updated my map. It now includes all the major spots in the city - in my opinion. I’ve included a picture for most of them. Check it out!
Tip: The map is best viewed in Sat (Satellite) mode. Available on the […]
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Monday, January 28th, 2008
Close Enough. Thank you!
This is the typical process I go through ordering food from a non-English speaker. This conversation happend this morning.
Me: Can I have a Sausage, Egg, and Cheese McMuffin?
Her: ^&(&^*(^&*(^?
Me: Um. Sausage?
Her: Ah. Bacon?
Me: No, Sausage.
Her: Ah! &*(&^($^&*?
Me: Uh. Sure.
I pay. She gives me a plain Egg and Cheese McMuffin.
Me: Close enough. Thank you!
At least she […]
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Saturday, January 26th, 2008
On a train to who knows where
It’s a seven hour train ride from Prague. At least this train has electrical sockets for my laptop.
Sometimes my mind convinces me I am somewhere else. Riding on the bus to work, I think to myself that the city streets of Budapest are actually the city streets of Downtown Vancouver, that the rolling hills between […]
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Sunday, December 30th, 2007
Christmas in Budapest
The year has almost come to a close, and my Christmas is Budapest was a successful one. Christmas morning I went to the home of my Canadian friend and supervisor at the ERRC. With her boyfriend and another Canadian friend, the four of us had a nice Canadian Christmas brunch. Later that day I went […]
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Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
Riding the Rails
Its 4:41pm, but its pitch black outside my window. No electric light where I am. The long rolling fields of Slovakia are outside. I am writing this on the train returning me to Budapest. There 6 of us in this room of the carriage, a grandmother, mother and daughter, and another mother and daughter. Once […]
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Sunday, December 16th, 2007
Taking the road less traveled
When I was very young, in one of my families earliest homes, there was a photograph that always facinated me and yet scared me at the same time. It was of a street sign, at the end of a road, at night, with a field behind it. The street sign was yellow with arrows pointing […]
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Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
Utopian Career Chooser 1.0
In Grade 11 I was forced to take part in a “Career Preparation Program”. It was a feeble attempt at assisting the young students of my High School in choosing a profession so that they could begin to form their academic foundation in post-secondary school for the career of their choice. The biggest reason this […]
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Thursday, December 6th, 2007
Photo Album upgrade
The Photo Album has been upgraded to directly connect with the photos I have been putting on Facebook. So their are now more pictures on my photo album, and it will be continually updated as I upload pictures. The link to the photo album is on the right in the “pages” box or you can […]
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