You know what's so nice bout autumn in Canada? It smells really good!!! I've missed it so much and it's funny how much the smells really identify a place to you ( Read more... )

Well, it's obviously been a while since I've written last, and I'm now happily ensconced in Kingston. My flat is unpacked and sorted and looks great (well, I still need pushpins to put up more art, but it's coming!) It's lovely with lots of nooks and crannies, very much my garret attic where I starve as an academic ( Read more... )

Well, this is the first internet access for a week and I will have to keep this entry short, so the higlights first. I believe that I left you last in Beijing ( Read more... )

Hello everyone ( Read more... )

And as of 10am tomorrow morning I`m off!!! First the slow boat to China...then the slow train across Europe!

Well...my house is packed and I have 4 more days in Japan. Wow! All my boxes left yesterday so I keep reaching for a computer that isn`t there. LUckily there is free internet at the library so I`ll be checking in here once a day, but if you email please realise that it may take a while to respond. You can email my Mt. A account if it`s urgent ( Read more... )

The local kindergarten picks up there students in a bus that looks like a train locomotive! Is that not the best idea for little kids? It isn't just painted either, I mean that it's constructed to look like a locomotive ( Read more... )

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Well...let's see. I had a lovely weekend. Went to see the Davinci Code- good fun...in some ways better than my memory of the book, because you didn't have to contend with the bad writing. But the Sophie Neveu (sp?) kind of lost a voice in the movie. Then went out for a girls night. Really a good time! Dinner, drinks and dancing. It's good to ( Read more... )

Well, there was an earthquake at 5am this morning. Waking up out of a sound sleep to the world shaking is an uncanny feeling. I took a while to get my bearings and sort of sleepily considered moving to avoid falling object but in the end simply contemplated my swaying lamp above me and went back to sleep when it stopped. To be honest, my bedroom ( Read more... )