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Moving to Nairobi, moving to Nairobi, moving to Nairobi!!!!!!!!
Clearly I'm very excited about this!!
Can't wait!!!
8 weeks to go.

Hot. Iquitos is hot. Who would have thought? My face is bright red and I'm exhausted - and all because I spent 5 hours in the field trapsing around with the Proyecto Dengue team, a visiting US Navy Commander and a US Army Colonel. The team were extremely impressive, and I learnt a lot. The two guys that I was stationed with made sure to point out ( Read more... )

Big storm headed this way .... Hope there's a massive snow dump in the Sierra Nevada to cushion my tushy when I attempt skiing next weekend ( Read more... )

I leave for Brisbane tomorrow.
I'm well excited about coming home, even if it is only temporarily.

So it's 8.30am and I need to be on a flight back to California at 2:00pm. However, I have no identification to get on the plane (and only $50 in my pocket) after having my purse stolen yesterday. The airline said that I could get on the plane if I had a police report. After waiting 7.5 hours for the cops to show up, they said they wouldn't issue me ( Read more... )

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Having to fake an American accent so that you can be understood by an automated voice-recognition system is annoying. It must be even more annoying for people with thicker accents than me (believe me, there are some ( Read more... )

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Do not run out of petrol on major Interstate (alone). Do not pull off onto hard shoulder with cars driving 10 inches away at 100mph. Do not look over to see black pimp van pull over, slam on brakes and back up to your car. Do not visually lean over and lock doors, with whites of eyes showing. When lady on phone from roadside assistance proclaims, " ( Read more... )