tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86515382012-02-16T13:17:34.212+10:00My life works in very strange, and usually completely random ways. This is where I write about it just so I can keep track of what's going on, and for everyone else who wants to know about what I'm doing they can do so, because I'm usually toolazy to update everyone by e-mailZIG!!!http://www.blogger.com/profile/04685871193283849188noreply@blogger.comBlogger571100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8651538.post-83160942750136255342008-03-12T20:29:00.012+10:002008-03-13T06:10:32.858+10:00

Ah, Madrid, the city where a typical week consists of urinating on the streets, attending public protests, stepping in dog shit, watching couples make out usually with someone they just met, or someone else´s boy/girlfriend, and standing in over-crowded smokey bars. I mean sometimes these bars are so over crowded and people are making out so much, that I´m pretty sure I can now claim that I have

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Where am I: MADRID, my new homeWhat am I doing: teaching english, not sick from mononucleosis anymore, meeting great people, eating good food, probably drinking too much, and getting robbed, and stumbling upon riots near my home, and lovign the spanish sunNear future plans: pay off my debts, see more of europe, try to learn spanishMy new phone number +34 608123680

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Probably about a month ago now I packed up my tent and planting bags and crawled out of the middle of nowhere to Vanderhoof (still the middle of nowhere, but at least it had some kind of civilization). The nursery (tree) had some problems so we had two weeks off before finishing the last 3 weeks of planting. I couldn't afford to stick around for two weeks of paying for hostels and drinking far

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After 50 hours of straight driving with someone i never met before I arrive at my destination ( a month ago):UGGGGHHHHH, I don't even know where to begin or what to say. Tree planting is hard work, much harder than I expected. I thought since i did all this fruit picking and other manual labour work I'd be prepared, but i was wrong. Anyway things are getting better/profitable/less painful slowly,

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So a couple weeks ago i sporadicly decided to go visit jeffy in Ottawa. I didn't really tell anyone because it was just supposed to be a few day thing. Anyway 2 weeks later I'm still here, just so everyone knows I'm not in Montreal. So I'm here doing random things, mostly cleaning up after jeff and his roommate (cuz they're dirty) and walking their dog. Jeff's girlfriend hooked me up with

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So my life continues to play cruel little jokes. Just as things start to look good and jobs start heading my way, I get a job at a hotel. I went out bought myself some suits, and started working my ass off to learn everything there is to know, a week later they cut my hours (cuz the girl that originally left wants her hours back). So technically I still work there, yet i haven't worked in a week

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So last year I added this cool thing to my blog called "Stat counter" This thing tells me how many people actually read my blog and what part of the world people come from, and how they find my site. Anyway I checked out the stats the other day and realized I still get an average of 50 hits a week from all over the world. So I figure since people are still bored enough to read my rants, I'll

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OHHHHH MAN!!! I have to say for the past two weeks I've done a lot laughing at the weird way my life likes to play with me, including some crying about it aswell.This entire year I've had one plan with my life. JUST ONE that would last a month, and that plan was to go to HArlem again and sell Christmas trees. Well everything was planned and I was ready to go. I came home from Asia/Australia early

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The last few days I just hung out around the guesthouse, didn't do too much. I went on a mass shopping spree for random things. Ran into some guy who practically lives down the street from me.I had some issues sleeping so I went to the pharmacy to get some sleeping pills. The pharmacist gave me some no name white pills in a baggy. She told me it was Xanax and she promised they were weaker than

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So i booked my ticket about 15 minutes ago now. I WAS really excited until i realized at the moment its 32 degrees,and I'm walkin around quite comfortably!!IT'S 3 DEGREES IN MONTREAL!!!!!!!I am going to die a very cold and painful death especially considering I own no winter clothes, not even a jacket as of a few days ago i didn't even own shoes (just a pair of flip flops). I had to go on a

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So i bussed/ boated my way to Koh Samed. It was nice, i went on my own, but met a really good group of people on the boat over. Though i was feeling pretty anti social. I went out with them one night and got reminded how terrible Thai whiskey was for hangovers. I spent the rest of my time on the island trying to cleverly avoid them, though they always tracked me down. I spent alot of time

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Well I went Kayaking again, just as much fun as the first time. Right now I am in a jam AGAIN!! the last month has been pretty stressfull for me.Well I haven't gotten my taxes back from Australia yet. They were supposed to come in a week ago. Well anyway my credit card maxed out, which leaves me with 0$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ (literally)BAH! oh the stress! Debby decided to go volunteer on the Burmese

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Well I spent almost a week in Bangkok. I hung around Kao Sarn for a day just shopping and bumming around. Then moved back To Suk 11, the same hostle I've been staying at for years now. There I met up with Derek. Was preetty much the same old stuff. I ate some Good Somtem (papaya salad) from the lady in the back, and had a Banana Roti from "happy" down the road. I also met (yet another) crazy

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Well I hopped on a bus and then a ferry and ended up on Koh Phi phi in Thailand! This is the island where "The Beach" was filmed. It was really beautiful... but unofrtunatly you can still see the mass damage the Tsunami did to it, but they're recovering well and have plenty of tourist to give em lots of money.(Koh Phi phi, where the movie "The Beach" was filmed)Unfortunately the second day we

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(Mike and the trishaw driver)hmmm what can I say about Malaysia. It was a pretty neutral place. I probably would have liked it a lot more had the air been half decent. I spent just over a week and only travelled through 3 cities, including Malacca, Kuala Lumpu (the huge twin petrona towers were nice except they were barely visible with the smog.) and Georgetown which was an island off of Penang.

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Monday morning we had all our taxes figured out, We bought a plane ticket and flew to Singapore a few hours later. Hmmm what can I say about singapore. We didn't stay long at all. It was a weird country. The way I would describe it (and this is only after 3 days of being there ) is Singapore is to Asia as North America is to Europe.Let me elaborate on that; In europe you have lots of different

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Life in Darwin has been pretty boring. At first it was alright, but i've been here over a week now and it a small town and I've run out of things to do. Anyway, while beign here I've been doing a lot thinking. And a lot of spending money, on NOTHING!! Where did it all go?!?!!?!?Well with all my thinking and all my money spending I came to a conclusion. I don't have enough time left to work again,

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On september 12 th we picked up our grey Ford Falcom and jammed all our stuff in the back. It was a bit cozy with the five of us squeezed in the back and all of our stuff , but luckily, driving still makes me sleep so I slept through most of it. We managed to cover nearly 5000km within 10 days. It was a lot of driving.We started off from Cairns did a small detour to go visit 2 of our friends

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Well Mel and I had a brief stop in Mission Beach, we got bored of small towns so we rushed up to Cairns! It's been great here. the weather is perfect, city is not TOO big but has everything we need. I've done some shopping and lots and lots of tanning and lying by this gorgeouse little Lagoon. We met up with one of Mel's friends, Rich, from England, and now Mikey the Canadian guy we worked with

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We only spent a night in Townsville, it was nothing too exciting we were just visiting a friend Mel had made in Airlie beach.The morning after we hopped onto a ferry to Magnetic Island. After partying it up we were ready to just laze around for a bit and soak up some sun in peace and quiet maybe even read a book. The first day we arrived it was SO gorgeous and sunny and perfect, we decide to book

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After a 12 hour bus ride we arrived at Airlie beach! The beach is gorgeose there. It was so nice to be back near the water. In Airlie we met up with our 2 Irish friends Seamus and Eimear from Childers. We went all out there and partied it up hard. It was so nice to see some new face and go clubbing a bit. Needless to say I feel much better and glad I got it out of my system for a bit. I did a 2

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They forget they're too old to do the things they did 15 years ago... Needless to say our heads weren't the only thing hurting the next morning.. HAHAH good times, i miss these guys................classic!

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(most of the gang at the caravan park)In the past 4 years of travelling around the world many people have passed through my life but never have I met such an amazing group of people. I lived in the Grand and Smut patrolled with a group 10 ish people. Everyone was from a different part of the world and had complete different personalities but it all meshed together so nicely. I have to say I am

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I'm still in Childers now. I just spent the last 14 days working straight, I FINALLY have a day off today.I now live ontop of the local Pub in Childers. I also invested in some earplugs. I'm working really hard, and hopefully will be for the next month or so until I continue with my travels. Eventhough I'm workign hard, I'm still having a great time, I still like my job, though it does get tiring

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Just as my bank account hit 0 and my credit card was maxed out luck has turned around! All four of us got a job as SMUT INSPECTORS. Eventhough it sounds like my job involves me going to the corner store and checking out the top shelf of the magazine rack, it is nothing of the sort! I am actually working for the government of Queensland looking for a disease in sugar cane called; Smut, in order to

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After changing my mind about a million times, I decided to go all the way up to Emerald ( which was a 9 hour drive north and inland) to p[rune some grape vines. On the bus up there I met 3 English girls that were going to the same place. Thank God!!! because the place was a nightmare. The place looked like a concentration camp. We were each placed into seperate white box-like rooms.Within hours

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So I finally packed my bags and moved from the van. My first stop was to Hervey Bay where I met up with Beverly, my Canadian friend I met while telemarketting in Surfer's Paradise. Together we went on a 3 day self drive Fraser Island trip. This is where they put 10 random people together give us a 4x4 and ship us off to an island made entirely of sand. We sleep in tents the entire time we're

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Well a few things have happened again to change all my plans completly. I ended up getting a job with some rich guy painting his massive boat. That was pretty cool until he descided he didn't want me to work for him and wanted me to be his prostitute. HAHAHAHAHAHAHa well that was the last time I spoke to him, now my crazy canadian friend has moved on without me, I'm not working for the perve

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Well I've been in Surfer's Paradise for over a month now...looking for work. Looking so much that I have been to the beach twice since being here, and gone out at night only twice as well. We've done NOTHING but look for work. I did the door to door marketting thing trying to sell 4000$$$$$ vacuums. that obviously wasn't for me. then I did telemarketting for 4 days, which didn't work out so good

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Well my week hasn't been the best in Australia. I found myself a telemarketting job which compleltely sucks. The day before I was supposed to start (on mothers day) I found out my Dad had a Heart attack... He's alright now, from what i've heard, but it still such a helpless feeling when you're on the other end of the world and something like that happens...Well the job sucked just as bad as i

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yup I did, and it was pretty interesting. I had my palms read and had some psychic lady tell me about myself and my future. strangely enough what they both said pretty much was the same as eachother.So now let me give you a bit of insight about my future.The first thing the psychic lady said is she sees a man with me ( dead man) with dark hair who travels. He's the reason I get along with guys

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Well our van is purrrring like a kitten, It only took 7 mechanics and 2 weeks of patience and about 5 different parts to make it run like that. Luckily and somehow we managed to pull this all off for barely any $$$ at all.So Now we're pretty happy. We've met a bunch of other random people, and scammed our way into a few other free rooms and beds. People seems to pitty us when they ask "where are

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Well the past few days have just been weird...and crazy...After finishing up with our farm work we descided to take the 10 hour drive to Newcastle. this wasn't such a bad drive. Everything went pretty smoothly. We parked in the middle of a parking lot as usual right by the beach. But by midnight we realized we were surrounded by a bunch of idiots drinking in the parking lot being loud and showing

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Well I found myself the perfect job. I do "Cotton chipping" this job pretty much involves me wandering through cotton fields with a HO (its a tool). The cool thing about this job is, just when u start getting really pissed off at the flies or just frustrated that your wandering around in the heat, you find some huge weeds, and get to chop the hell out of them. It's hilarius to watch, it looks

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Well the adventures have now really begun. Living in the van so far has been pretty amazing. We never know where we're going to sleep and we always wake up in the coolest places.The first night we slept in the van we descided to park in an empty parking lot right by the beach. Oh man this was th funniest night so far. within an hour or so of going to bed we hear a girl yelling to her friend in

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So what have I done since I last wrote? hmmm, not too much, but at the same time so much. I got to Sydney February 13th. We're staying in Panania, which is the suburbs in Sydney with Richard, a friend of ours, which is really convinient since we had a lot of things to do. We opened a bank account, got our tax file number, got a phone number and been cooking up a storm. We've been to a few bars

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So what have I been doing in Bangkok for the 5th/6th time? Everytime I come here I always discover new things to do and see. This time I learned how to be a complete lazy ass and spoil myself. I figured since everything is so cheap here I would spoil the hell out of myself while I still can, because once i get to australia life won't be so simple and cheap anymore.The first few days Derek was

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Well after spending my summer painting houses and a few months after working in an institution where they tested drugs on animals, I decided to drop everything, and make my way to Harlem to sell Christmas trees for a month. There's not much I can say about that. I really couldn't put this experience into words. All I can say is that it was probably one of the weirdest things I've done. And even

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After having a restless night on the mountain by the temple. I remember sitting in the burgundy chairs that were rescued from down the street. We were sitting infront of the guesthouse/store with the owner, positioned so we could see the road, to see what was going on, to keep an eye out for looters and of course to have perfect access to the road so we can bolt down it again incase there was

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aperantly not!So I descided to go a little crazy and post all my pictures up on yahoo just for organizational purposes (is that even a word, hmm). I know most people couldn't care less about pictures, i knwo i usually don't want to see 895724087452 pictures of other peoples trips, but i descided to post them all up just incase someone was bored enough to look.to make it easier I'll put links here

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This is a picture out the front of the place I stayed in, in Mirisa Sri Lanka, a month after the tsunami. I was swept across this street, form inside the house, to where that electric pole is, I held on to that for dear life. hehe, good times

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This was the worst 5 hour bus ride of my life. See how packed it is now, it got MUCH worse. It was hot ,and i had to stand the entire way while being pushed up every which way. not cool, not a flattering picture either, but i still like it

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Well guys, I've managed to post the rest of my pictures that i have YAY!I'm still waiting for derek to send me like 100 more, but this is what i got for now.Sri Lanka (after tsunami)http://ca.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/zigalbum/album?.dir=bd98&.src=ph&store=&prodid=&.done=http%3a//ca.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/zigalbum/my_photosThailand 2005 http://ca.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/zigalbum/album?.dir=dfa9&.src=

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There are MANY more, but I'll upload them later, u can check back in a week or so and they might be there,http://ca.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/zigalbum/album?.dir=5d23&.src=ph&store=&prodid=&.done=http%3a//ca.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/zigalbum/my_photos

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here's a the site of where i was staying all the way up north in case anyone wants to check it outwww.cavelodge.com. Would have been nice if i hadn't hurt my ankleWell now I'm back in Bangkok. derek's sister went back home to ireland. And due to many many different reasons i feel the best thing for me to do is go home also. I have lost all motivation here and it just keeps getting worse. I've

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Well it's been over a month since I last posted. Why would that be you ask? Pretty much just haven't been motivated to write, and nothing too excitign has happened. but I'm going to rant for a bit to keep u up dated with everythign that's been going on with me within the past month. I spent a week alone in Kandy which was really good times, everynight i would meet new people and we'd usually go

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Well let's see, the past 2 ish weeks haven't been all that exciting, but i guess I'll write abotu them anyway. For new years I climbed 2200 m up that stupid Adam's Peak mountain. It took me about 3 aND a half hours, it was pissing rain, and the wind was insane. I was also leeched a few times. We had a dog follow us all the way up, and the dogs tiny little puppy followed also. In the morning

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I have some pictures of my time spent in mirissa, before the camera was swept awayenjoyhttp://ca.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/zigalbum/I would like to also say THANK YOU TO TOBIAS for putting these pictures up for meabracao ;)also here's a good site for some info on what went on while i was down in mirissa, and by the way, the closest city near mirissa is matara, incase u were wondering and couldn't

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December 26, 2004 8:40 am. I wake up just like any other morning, take my morning piss, put on my bathing suit and my dark blue sun dress. Brush my teeth with my orange flavoured tooth paste. Derek and I order the typical breakfast of 4 pieces of toast, ginger tea and we were planning to finish off our cheese that we had bought for christmas. Derek asked if i wanted to go for a walk on the beach

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Okokok, I know a lot of you read my last blog and thought "WHAT?! Isabel's reading books?!?!?" Well before you make any comments about it, yes I am. Really there's nothing else to do then lie around and read books, and believe it or not, I'm really enjoying it, who would have thought. Well today I got my ass on a bus and made my way to Colombo, the capital, to get a Visa extention for another 2

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I left Bangkok around Nov 25th. We had a plane to Colombo, Sri lanka at 9:45 pm. It was a 3 and a half hour plane ride. We arrived at the airport at 11pm and didn't have a bus out to Kandy until 5 am. The bus station was extremely hectic, and the fact that I had as many bags as i did didn't help. So I slept through the entire ride pretty much, waking up every now and then by banging my head

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So thursday, Nov 18th, mornign at 5:00 I woke up, and was off to the dorval airport AGAIN. Not much to say about that other that the fact that the 30 hours to get from montreal to bangkok were TERRIBLE. Sitting and waiting around when you're exhausted just isn't too much fun. Well I arrived in Bangkok Friday night at 11:45pm, met up with Derek (the guy I'm travelling with, incase you don't

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Eventhough my last 2 posts seemed negative I had an AMAZING time in Cuba. I spent most my time, walkign along the beach, drinking all kinds of fancy drinks, swimming in the pool,and coming up with complicated routes to the beach to avoid the stalking Cuban men, well not all of them ;) While I was there I really met a lot of interesting people,and learned a lot about the country. Before i went I

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Today I had the oppertunity to experience what it felt like to be cattle. I was woken up at 7:30 in the morning, graised a little and was hearded onto a bus. I sat on this bus for 3 and a half houres, the destination was Trinidad,an old fashion city in south eastern cuba,or so i was told, i didn't actually really get to see it much. After the bus ride,we were hearded off to graise a bit more on

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This morning I woke up grabbed my bags hopped into the van and headed off towards Cuba with my mom and all her friends. The flight was 3 and a half hours long, nothing compared to what's coming up next week. I arrived around 11pm. My first impression of "Cuba" wasn't a great one. Straight off the plain I was shoved into a bus of complaining cranky french canadians. All the cubans spoke french,

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I picked up my plane ticket today, now it's 100% official. I leave for Bangkok November 18th, 2004 on flight 725 at 8:25 AM.

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I'm just pretty much posting this so i can see how it's set up. Well I have a month to go ubntil i head to Cuba, and a month and 2 weeks till i get to Bangkok. I'm prettye xcited, though there is still a l;ot fo work to be done til i get there

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