I was going to twitter more but I'll just write a quick post since I really need to post more, only a week and a half left and I only have 2 posts this month.
Excuse the randomness...
Today really felt like being at home, woke up at 10 made coffee and pancakes, drank and ate while watching baseball...went in to work, ate lunch, set up beach olympics, pitched 3 tents, picked up surf camp stuff and came home before 4pm, did laundry and ate the appetizer sized dinner of pizza, i.e. loaf of bread with pizza crap on top of it. (Later they brought us a bunch of spaghetti because so many people complained...)
Ate some ice cream, now i'm watching Colbert Report and messing around with computer stuff...I could be sitting in New York right now. It feels good to be "going back to my roots" these are all things that I haven't done much of lately. It's tough when so many things go on to take care of these things.
I need a hair cut...
I bought some really good sun screen recommended by Karen
I'm trying to learn Down Yonder on the fiddle
The water coming from the sink is the color of yellow tea because of the typhoon that just went through.
One of the new staff is leaving to go back to New York next Monday, actually he's our flatmate, so we'll have an empty room for a little bit.
I have my first pair of flip-flops since I was like 5, I bought them on my birthday for 48 HKD aka $7 'merica bucks
McDonalds has a new summer promotion here with a Strawberry kit-kat mcflurry and a Italian coffee shake, they're both unbelievably spectacular.
I'm really really missing bluegrass festivals right now, they are such amazing places, I feel so free travelling to them every summer
I've actually found some decent icecream at the central ferry pier 6, 7 HKD for a soft cone, I think it's actual good instead of just Hong Kong good
I just found out there is a movie coming out with Johnny Depp and Christian Bale, thanks to Katy for keeping me in the loop
So there's a collection of a bunch of "Twitters" that I could have posted...
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Friday, July 17, 2009
Happy Birrrrrrrthdayy to me...
I'm writing this now with tears in my eyes after watching the amazing video creation that was just sent to me. It was such a joy to watch and I know i'll watch it many more times while i'm here in Hong Kong. Thank you so much mom and Austin for putting in the hours to create it.
This past weeks was another crazy one,
although not as crazy because I wasn't leading an Adventure camp group, I was just working support for Adventure camp and surfcamp. So 
I was helping to set up and take down equipment. I also floated around to fill in for other instructors throughout the week.
This meant running beach games with 8-9-10 year olds on Monday morning then helping with the 6-7 year old beach games in the afternoon.
Tuesday: Set up the rigging on the gorge for the adventure camp and then make placemats and do some gardening with the 6-7 year olds.
Wednesday: Ran an "Adventure Challenge" in the morning and then
learned how to set up a belay station at the abseil in the afternoon.
Thursday: Run beach "Olympics" with 2 groups in the morning and then make sand
castles and chalk drawings with the 6-7 year olds until they left.
Friday was a day of kayaking, the adventure camp in the morning and then 18 11-12 year olds in the afternoon.
For my birthday we all went out to the Nepalese Restaurant in Wan Chai on Hong Kong Island
This was on Wednesday night, 20 people ended up coming out it was pretty crazy, the food was amazing and we all had an awesome time
The last two days I haven't been doing anything and that's a good thing, it's been a while since i've just been able to just sit down and not be doing anything other than tapping on the keyboard and sipping coffee. Things continue to get me down about this job so I need to make extra sure that I'm taking care of myself.
This past weeks was another crazy one,
although not as crazy because I wasn't leading an Adventure camp group, I was just working support for Adventure camp and surfcamp. So 
I was helping to set up and take down equipment. I also floated around to fill in for other instructors throughout the week.This meant running beach games with 8-9-10 year olds on Monday morning then helping with the 6-7 year old beach games in the afternoon.
Tuesday: Set up the rigging on the gorge for the adventure camp and then make placemats and do some gardening with the 6-7 year olds.
Wednesday: Ran an "Adventure Challenge" in the morning and then
learned how to set up a belay station at the abseil in the afternoon.Thursday: Run beach "Olympics" with 2 groups in the morning and then make sand
castles and chalk drawings with the 6-7 year olds until they left.
Friday was a day of kayaking, the adventure camp in the morning and then 18 11-12 year olds in the afternoon.
For my birthday we all went out to the Nepalese Restaurant in Wan Chai on Hong Kong Island
This was on Wednesday night, 20 people ended up coming out it was pretty crazy, the food was amazing and we all had an awesome time
The last two days I haven't been doing anything and that's a good thing, it's been a while since i've just been able to just sit down and not be doing anything other than tapping on the keyboard and sipping coffee. Things continue to get me down about this job so I need to make extra sure that I'm taking care of myself.
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Day 13 - Tuesday, May 12, 2009 - Filipino Paradise Part 2
When I hit the Philippines I really slacked on my journal keeping. There was an unbelievable amount of stuff to do and such little time, even though we knew we'd be there for 3 weeks.
Would happen was James and I would meet someone and they'd list off twenty places to go and check out, but we didn't know the geography of the Philippines well at all so it wouldn't really mean much. Then we'd meet ten more people that day listing off 20 places to go each... Eventually we got a pretty good grasp on most things, but it took time.
On this day James and I slept in, it was a good sleep after a long time of having to wake up and be somewhere, we had rice, eggs, and bread for breakfast at Glenda and Cyril's house. They also had some hot chocolate drink that was made locally, it was really thick and dark chocolaty with some chalkiness. It was alright for a few days, before I discovered the wonderful "3 in 1" instant coffee.
Glenda broght us to the wet market to pick up some food for lunch and dinner. James and I were very popular with the local Cebuanos, many, many eyes were on us as we made our way up and down the crowded market areas. Glenda had to answer many questions about us. We bought some small yellow banannas (SA-ging in Cebuano), a 2kg Tuna, some onions, peppers, and a small bag of charcoal.
We came back and watched/started to watch Spiderman 3 while dinner was being prepared. I think i've been fighting an infection the last few days. It's the same exhaustion, headache, tiredness that I tend to get from month to month.
After a late lunch we took our first Jeepney ride to Irvin's and then went into the city.
Irvin took us to a "larsian" which is a Filipino style Barbecue place with so much amazing and delicious food my mouth waters whenever I think of it. I have to get the pictures off of my other hard drive and post them. (This probably won't happen for a while...)
The Larsian had Chorizo, which is an awesome sweet sausage, it tastes like half brown sugar half pork fat, it was my favorite thing to get when we ate out, which was pretty much every day...
We also had "Sinaguillas" (I can't find this one on the internet,) but it's a small football shaped fruit about the size of a golfball. It's red when it's sweet and ripe but green and tart when it comes to you. It has a huge seed in the middle, so you have to eat the flesh off of the outer part of it. It's my second favorite fruit in the Philippines, next to mango...
Would happen was James and I would meet someone and they'd list off twenty places to go and check out, but we didn't know the geography of the Philippines well at all so it wouldn't really mean much. Then we'd meet ten more people that day listing off 20 places to go each... Eventually we got a pretty good grasp on most things, but it took time.
On this day James and I slept in, it was a good sleep after a long time of having to wake up and be somewhere, we had rice, eggs, and bread for breakfast at Glenda and Cyril's house. They also had some hot chocolate drink that was made locally, it was really thick and dark chocolaty with some chalkiness. It was alright for a few days, before I discovered the wonderful "3 in 1" instant coffee.
Glenda broght us to the wet market to pick up some food for lunch and dinner. James and I were very popular with the local Cebuanos, many, many eyes were on us as we made our way up and down the crowded market areas. Glenda had to answer many questions about us. We bought some small yellow banannas (SA-ging in Cebuano), a 2kg Tuna, some onions, peppers, and a small bag of charcoal.
We came back and watched/started to watch Spiderman 3 while dinner was being prepared. I think i've been fighting an infection the last few days. It's the same exhaustion, headache, tiredness that I tend to get from month to month.
After a late lunch we took our first Jeepney ride to Irvin's and then went into the city.
Irvin took us to a "larsian" which is a Filipino style Barbecue place with so much amazing and delicious food my mouth waters whenever I think of it. I have to get the pictures off of my other hard drive and post them. (This probably won't happen for a while...)
The Larsian had Chorizo, which is an awesome sweet sausage, it tastes like half brown sugar half pork fat, it was my favorite thing to get when we ate out, which was pretty much every day...
We also had "Sinaguillas" (I can't find this one on the internet,) but it's a small football shaped fruit about the size of a golfball. It's red when it's sweet and ripe but green and tart when it comes to you. It has a huge seed in the middle, so you have to eat the flesh off of the outer part of it. It's my second favorite fruit in the Philippines, next to mango...
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