I've learned so much about myself, my body and recovering from my injury over the last several days.

My friend, Leah, who is a physical therapy assistant, came to visit this weekend. It was really good timing because I'd been doing PT exercises on my own for the previous three weeks. Unfortunately, because I was on my own without the guidance of my ( Read more... )

Monday, 11 January 2010

There was no indication that it was going to be an unusually rough day when I woke up. Our 10:00am English-Vietnamese language exchange was canceled, so we decided to head off nice and early (for a day off) on our separate motorbike trips. Darren had been dying to go up the Hai Van Pass. I, on the other hand, was in ( Read more... )

Ever since I arrived in Hanoi I've been wearing my 'tevas' (actually North Face sandals but it's a generic word that brings to mind just what I mean) when walking around town. Even when I'm all dressed up for work, skirt and all, I wear my tevas to the office and change shoes when I get there. The streets are dirty. You can't walk on a lot of the ( Read more... )

Didn't mean to be intentionally intriguing last night with the mention of an injury on an island. Actually, I started to add a bit about what happened and got timed out at the internet cafe I was at ( Read more... )

I'm into the last half of my holiday here in Thailand and what an amazing thing it's been. I left winter temps in Almaty - coats, scarves, hats, gloves, the whole shebang - to arrive in Bangkok to 90+ degrees Fahrenheit. It's been blissful ( Read more... )