One more week of classes (that means two days for me, no Mon/Wed/Fri classes - yuss!), one week of finals... and then I'll be gone. Can hardly believe how fast it has gone!Gonna miss this place, the people, and the internationality (if that is a word!) of it. Any given week you get multiple cultural experiences, especially living in International House. Like last week, for example, teaching an American girl to speak with a Kiwi accent for her ...

One more week of classes (that means two days for me, no Mon/Wed/Fri classes - yuss!), one week of finals... and then I'll be gone. Can hardly believe how fast it has gone! Gonna miss this place, the people, and the internationality (if that is a word!) of it. In any given week, you get so many international cultural experiences, especially living in International House. Like last week, for example, teaching an American girl to speak with a Kiwi accent for ...

Back in San Diego now, but man, what a phenomenal weekend. Here's the good, the bad, and the ugly of it:The Good:- Getting back to basics and in touch with nature. Always good, and especially so after having been in the city for so long. Brushing teeth by the stream. Washing your face in it. Bathing upstream from a waterfall. Drinking water which not so long ago was snow. Gathering firewood for the fire... Love it.- The people! A very international bunch, we ...

Off to Yosemite for the long weekend.  Will endeavour to update with pics of this alledgedly incredibly beautiful place when I get back.  (See how it compares with some of NZ's national parks huh...) Gonna be roughing it!  That means I won't reply to any emails until at least Monday night.  We're not gonna have running water, let alone electricity!

Today, for the second time, I had to explain to someone that no, not everyone in New Zealand is white. After I'd explained to them that New Zealand was not a part of the United States. (She had thought it was somewhere like Illinois). Nor Australia. And yes, we do speak English there. (Someone a while ago complimented me on my ability to speak English really well - how flattering!)I suppose it goes both ways though. Today at lunch my colleagues made fun of me...