tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-124589812009-12-22T13:59:33.768ZFinish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. - Ralph Waldo EmersonSarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03375512448024903580noreply@blogger.comBlogger1145125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12458981.post-673851724235692552009-12-22T13:59:00.002Z2009-12-22T13:59:33.774Z

Check it out!!!!!!

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No, we don't have enough snow here in London to build an igloo, but apparently in New Jersey there was! Check this out about half way down there's a video of the igloo making process . . . it makes me miss the snow a lot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This time next year I'll be enjoying it and I can't wait!

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Those of you who know me well, know I love to count down to my birthday & probably have been surprised I've not been giving you the monthly warnings/updates.  This is in part because I've been so busy with other things and just haven't had the chance to actually sit down & count them all out, but today being my LAST day of work until I find a new job next summer (any time after July 1, 2010) I

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So I've started a seperate blog for my ATW travels, check it out here or cut and paste this: http://whereintheworldissaranow.blogspot.com/ or you can find it on the side bar under "Where's Sara"

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Fatehpur Sikri - a fortified ghost city which was the capital of the Mughal empire from 1571 to 1585Palace of Winds (cool place to be during the summer apparently cause the wind blows through all the windows)sunsetSikh temple in Delhime, Erin, Radena & of course the Taj Mahal!

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Arrived back into London this morning at half 8. Don't have photos to share just yet, but here is a run down of what I did for my week in India (primarily a tour of the Golden Triangle) Landed in Delhi, went to hotel, slept, eat breakfast, took nap, had lunch, went to see a Muslim temple, eat some curry, went back to sleep for the night, went to Sikh temple & helped prepare meal - they feed

Sarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03375512448024903580noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12458981.post-58687436395124455202009-11-20T14:11:00.001Z2009-11-20T14:13:03.461Z

I'm leaving tomorrow for Delhi, India & will be back on Dec 1st hopefully with lots of fun stories & photos to share.To all the America's who read my blog:Happy Thanksgiving!!!!

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I've booked my flight HOME to the USA :-) I arrive at 9.30pm on July 1, 2010 - can you believe it nearly 5 years after I left saying I was moving to London for a year to get a masters I'm finally actually coming home . . . I know I'm actually still in shock!

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So with the CDC coming to inspect our new facility tomorrow everyone here has been running around like headless chickens preparing for their arrival . . . you'd think I'd be completely stressing, but I'm not! I've reached the point where I know everything I've done for the past 3 weeks is complete and I can't do much about the things which aren't as completely ready, such as the building works

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It's official the TB clinic has discharged me :)They actually said I don't need to finish my 5 weeks of medicine, but I'm going to double check that with the doctor who gave it to me, just to make sure. I don't hold total faith in the clinic here. Today the doctor argued with me about how to pronounce the disease I work on . . . starting off by saying, "I think you'll find that here in Britain

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So CanAm Thanksgiving was a huge success! Since Jen's studio doesn't have an oven, I made the mashed potatoes, stuffing & sweet potatoes ahead of time. Jen prepared the salmon (she doesn't eat meat, so no turkey) vegetables and butternut squash soup. She also managed to find apple crumble at Whole Foods for £2.99, as compared to the apple pie which was £9. It was pretty darn tasty if you ask

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Here is a poem I was sent in an email - I decided to copy it into my blog, as I know many people serving in our Armed Forces (Chris, Rob, Trevor, Timmy, Adrianne, Susan & my "big brother" Michael)The average age of the military man is 19 years. He is a short haired, tight-muscled kid who, under normal circumstances is considered by society as half man, half boy. Not yet dry behind the ears, not

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For those of you who are still reading this, I think we might be down to just my dad, but I'm off track already! Some of you might have realised that my travel plans to India happen to be the same week as American Thanksgiving. Obviously this is not a holiday celebrated over here in jolly old England, nor will there be turkey with all the trimmings in India either.Instead, my Canadian mate Jen

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Guy Fawkes Day is an annual celebration on the evening of 5 November. Marking the downfall of the Gunpowder Plot on 5 November 1605 - failed assassination attempt by a group of English Catholics against King James I of England, they intended to kill the King and most of the Protestant aristocracy by blowing up the Houses of Parliament, included in this group was a man named Guy Fawkes, Here

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So it's been over a month since I last blogged, it's not that I'm giving up on the blog, it's just that I've been so busy with everything else that I've not had time to sit down & collect my thoughts for an entry.Let's see since I last wrote, I went to the Volksfest in Stuttgart, Germany with fellow alumni of Norwich University, we had a guy from the class of '61 who lives in Germany now, two

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A year ago as the stock market was starting to go all wacky, I was at the IRIS hotel in Kigali, Rwanda working with Itafari. In a way we were lucky to have very limited access to telly in English, only about 15 minutes from the BBC was more than I needed to be honest since it wasn't exactly happy news.Here it is a year later and I'm looking forward to returning to Rwanda in January. Even though

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Check out this SlideShare Presentation: Build a School in RwandaView more presentations from Victoria Trabosh.

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I spent this past weekend in Helsinki, Finland and Tallinn, Estonia. Let me first off say that if you ever get the chance to visit Tallinn, you MUST do it. The old town is fantastic!!!The day we arrived we went out to visit the island of Suomenlinna where we toured around checking out the cannons & fortresses and for dinner I had reindeer with mashed potatoes and linden berry sauce - YUMMY! On

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I have just finished booking my around the world flights, leaving London on January 20, 2010 and returning back to London on June 25, 2010 . . . yes, that's correct I'll be back in America in time for July 4th, my favourite holiday!!Here is a brief run down of my travels for those of you who are interested:Jan 20 - leave London, EnglandJan 21 - arrive Kigali, RwandaJan 31 - leave Nairobi, Kenya

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So Rich (Aussie) & I have been using the word "fain" to mean lessening - like my energy is faining, but neither of us were sure it was an actual word, so yesterday I looked it up & learned something new - here is the convo Rich & I had a few minute ago online:Sara: Hey, I learned today that the word, "feign" means to fabricate, "fain" means happily or gladly agree, "fane" is a city in PNG

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Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up. ~ A.A. Milne

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Friday August 14th, Jen & I met up at London Luton for a weekend adventure. We flew into Vienna, Austria that afternoon, dropped our stuff at the hostel and met up with James (an American History teacher from DC who Louise & I had met at our hostel in Budapest) who happened to be in Vienna for a few more hours before heading to Switzerland . . . see I'm not the only one who travels a lot!We had

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So I made it to my 31st country of the world this past weekend, Hungary. Louise & I met up in Budapest for whirl wind sightseeing on Saturday & relaxing at the spa on Sunday - it was FABULOUS, I have to add this city to my top 10 list, I wonder how long that list is now, as I'm sure I've said that about more than 10 cities/countries :)We took a hop on hop off bus on Saturday cause A) it was 35C

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