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13-Aug-06held hostel
12-Aug-06It seems WVU has finally gotten around to billing me for my room (per the exchange agreement). I’m living in an exclusive international section of Arnold Hall (which happens to be thousands of miles from Prospect St.) in a double room for $1,750 per semester. The Lingnan hostel fee for 2005-06 averaged a bit under […]
Liquids On A Plane!
11-Aug-06Well, this morning I was greeted by the heartwarming news that the previous Aging Empire broke up a terror plot involving liquids. Not that that hasn’t been tried before. Now, it’s a wonderful thing (and I’m typing that phrase in an atypically sincere way) and a fabulous victory for British law enforcement. What isn’t a […]
just a reminder
10-Aug-06DL 5125 21AUG PIT JFK 1050A 1217P CX 831 21AUG JFK HKG 345P 805P#1 (Arrival of 8:05 p.m. HKT = 8:05 a.m. EDT on the 22nd).
countdown’s on
08-Aug-06As my ex-co-workers get started with RA training back in Morgantown, their two weeks of purgatory will coincide with my two weeks left stateside: I leave from PIT at 10:30 on the first Monday of school. With any luck I’ll be able to find a way to actually get to the airport: it’s my father’s […]
Tentative Mailing Address
27-Jul-06Just got my room assignment/roommate/student number/e-mail address and so on for Lingnan. I am sure that they are subject to change, but my mailing address (just to get used to the sound of it) will probably be: Room 306A, Hall B Lingnan University Tuen Mun, New Territories HONG KONG I’ll post on arrival to confirm […]
Lingnan class list
21-Jul-06I recently (finally) got my class list for Lingnan. This is not all-inclusive: I will compensate for the dropping of requested classes for time conflicts during the add/drop periods. It would have been easier to avoid these conflicts had the class times been posted anywhere I could find, of course. Fall Term: SSC 201: Trade […]
Dublin to home
07-Jul-06After a day full of tarmac-sitting, I am back on my poor old ibook at home. The Ryanair flight from BVA to DUB was chaotic and cattle-like as usual, but the pilot had an interesting intercom annoucement in flight: “Italy have won two-nil in extra time.” This leaves me in a serious predicament as I […]
a little more Paris
04-Jul-06Saw Orsay today, very cool. Alana off shopping in Les Halles. Have to leave about four hours preflight for bus to freaking Beauvais. Found a Brazilian bar with happy hour 3 minutes after it started, nice. Am getting carded in Europe all the time… to prove I am under 26 and get a discount. Trying […]
Barcelona night madness, Paris police
03-Jul-06Barcelona concluded with an excellent and cheap meal on the Pl. Reial at Les quinze nits, and unfortunately with my leaving my backpack there and having to backtrack 30 minutes each way to retrieve it. Ooops. Good meal though. Unfortunately during that backtrack Brazil managed to blow it for their worst finish since I have […]