Travels
My World Tour
Qatar, Dubai, the UK, Canada, South Korea, the Netherlands, Canada, Kazakhstan, Canada and soon Qatar and Dubai again. This has been the most nomadic year of my life. And looking closer at Canada reveals even more little trips. Newfoundland, Ontario, Saskatchewan, Newfoundland, Saskatchewan, Alberta, Saskatchewan. As I write this I’m somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean ...
Poor Neglected Blog
Well it’s been a while. The Kazakhstan job was an amazing experience. I never found any January work but it is just as well. Two days after I left Kazakhstan I was contacted by my father who told me my mother was in the hospital with some significant health problems. I won’t go into details here ...
Endless Summer Vacation
While many of my friends have returned to the desert to continue their work I find myself in an airport again, waiting for a flight and continuing my vacation. I was offered a job in the UAE back on August with HCT, a chain of colleges. It was an alright job but I turned it ...
Vacation 2014
As I mentioned previously, this year has been turbulent. So I decided to go to Amsterdam for a renewal of sorts. Talk about good decisions. Visiting Amsterdam was like waking from a coma. Parts of me long held dormant by the Middle East came roaring back to life. I immediately fell in love with the ...
In Between The Spaces
Plenty has happened since I wrote in June. Got another contract and after a nice break and I’m now back in the sandbox as people like to call it over here. I finished my sixth paper, just got the grade back and I passed. I am now officially into my dissertation. There’s something like 150+ new ...
Going Postal in Sri Lanka (or How to post a Parcel in Galle)
Since my last post, I’ve completed another semester of teaching at the college and another MA paper. To celebrate these feats I decided with K’s approval (ie bribes and promises of cool gifts from far away places) to go to Sri Lanka for an 8-day vacation with a *buddy who also teaches at the college. The ...