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UKRAINE/MOLDOVA/ROMANIA May 2nd, 2010 May 7th, 2010 May 12th, 2010 POLAND May 29th, 2009 EASTERN AFRICA Feb 6th, 2008 Feb 10th, 2008 Feb 16th, 2008 Feb 22nd, 2008 CHINA Aug 22nd, 2006 Sep 4th, 2006 WORLD CUP Jun 17th, 2006 TRANS-SIBERIAN Sep 4th, 2003 Sep 10th, 2003 Sep 18th, 2003 Sep 25th, 2003 Sep 30th, 2003 Oct 6th, 2003 Oct 17th, 2003, Part I Oct 17th, 2003, Part II Oct 31st, 2003 Nov 21st, 2003 BALTIC EUROPE April 2nd, 2003 April 1st, 2003 EASTERN EUROPE June 8th, 2001 July 14th, 2001 June 19th, 2001 June 24th, 2001 July 1st, 2001 July 7th, 2001 July 25th, 2001 August 7th, 2001 SOUTH AMERICA Jun 15th, 2000 Jun 19th, 2000 Jun 26th, 2000 Jul 4th, 2000 Jul 8th, 2000 Jul 12th, 2000 Jul 18th, 2000 Jul 23rd, 2000 Jul 29th, 2000 Aug 5th, 2000 Aug 10th, 2000 Aug 18th, 2000 Sep 1st, 2000 Sep 7th, 2000 Sep 12th, 2000 Sep 17th, 2000 Sep 23rd, 2000 Oct 2nd, 2000 Oct 10th, 2000 Oct 20th, 2000 Oct 26th, 2000 Nov 2nd, 2000 Nov 8th, 2000 Nov 16th, 2000 Nov 21st, 2000 Nov 27th, 2000 Dec 5th, 2000 Dec 10th, 2000 INDONESIA Jun 20th, 1998 |
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Any town of yours is a town of mine(s)
Bonsai! Well, here I am, only a couple of days away from my trip to Bosnia with really no planning left to do, yet this has somehow still left me feeling desperate and anxious. My disorganization thrives on substance - if I don't have something to be unorganized about, that is when I REALLY panic. It is a sort of contented cycle of disorder and random spazzing; after this amount of practice it has started to feel natural. I leave on Sunday, six months to the day that I returned from my last trip through South America and over a year since I went away on that same voyage. In these past six months I have worked for four of them at Hockey Night in Canada in Toronto and then for the last two months (and upcoming three) I have been working for Alternatives, a bilingual Quebecois charity that designs web pages for charities overseas (like in Bosnia, just as an example). I got the job despite the fact that I do not speak French and that computers tend to explode upon my contact with them, thereby making me an imposed Amish through fear of electrical violence. My hunch is that equal-opportunity hiring practices in Canada now insist on having one "ignoramus" in every company.  It has been a whirlwind half-year of hockey, monster truck rallies, rioting in Quebec City and now, boom, off to Bosnia. (Note to self: Do not use the words "boom" and "Bosnia" in the same sentence again.) While working for the charity here I have not only been learning web design but also language skills to help me while overseas. Once I have finished my three months in Bosnia, I hope to be octalingual: I want to speak English, Bosnian, Serbian, Croatian, Serbo-Croatian, Bosno-Serbian, Croata-Serbo-Bosnian and Esperanto. Ho, Jes, dolc esperanto! Bosnian, Serbian and Croatian are all the same language, the name just changes depending on with which nationality you are speaking. The language(s) is hard for a variety of reasons - firstly, as an example, the word "luggage" is "prtljag", which is not so difficult as much as the fact that I worry about being arrested for having philosophical differences with words having 23 consecutive consonants. A slightly larger problem is that my Croatian language teacher simply disappeared about two weeks ago which seems like a bit of a bad omen for both my language skills and my time in Bosnia. Anyway, there are now 48 hours to go and still lots of nothing to concern myself greatly with. Next stop, Sarajevo!
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