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culture shock: Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore!
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Saturday, April 28, 2007. Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore! Moving from the US to Scotland was a bigger shock than I thought it would be. It's difficult not to think one is going on a permanent European holiday, then the real world sets in. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). My main blog page. Sòlasach an Alba (content in Scotland). Scotland, the best part of. Guides to British - American English. Separated by a common language. View my complete profile. Arrival in my new country.
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culture shock: 11/01/2006 - 12/01/2006
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Wednesday, November 01, 2006. All the unexpected surprises. As I was a clerical worker for the first few years I lived here, I found a few unexpected differences, such as. Sizes of paper - not in inches due to nearly everything being metric. Punctuation - different names such as period is a. Full stop and parentheses are called brackets and brackets are called square brackets. Full stops (periods) and commas are used much less often, for instance this would be correct - Dr A J Smith. I thought Americans ...
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culture shock: All the unexpected surprises
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Wednesday, November 01, 2006. All the unexpected surprises. As I was a clerical worker for the first few years I lived here, I found a few unexpected differences, such as. Sizes of paper - not in inches due to nearly everything being metric. Punctuation - different names such as period is a. Full stop and parentheses are called brackets and brackets are called square brackets. Full stops (periods) and commas are used much less often, for instance this would be correct - Dr A J Smith. I thought Americans ...
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Florida Trips: Matlacha - February 2002 for my 50th
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Danny and I took winter holidays in the SW coastal area of Florida three years in a row. Perfect weather, sandy beaches and clear water were the highlights. Saturday, November 18, 2006. Matlacha - February 2002 for my 50th. Matlacha is a small island west of Fort Myers and just east of Pine Island. To the west of Pine Island is Sanibel, Captiva, and Caya Costa Islands. For info on the Pine Island. On the Lee Island Coast. Some of the things we did:. Rented a canoe at Lover's Key State Park. We took a gui...
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South Africa Trip: Stunning beauty!
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Trip with husband, his daughter, her fiance/husband in December 2006. Tuesday, January 02, 2007. We spent the first three weeks in December in South Africa. Danny's daughter Kathleen married Riaan on 17 December in a stunning location in The Free State- Caledon Gardens. Which is near Clarens. It's on the border of Lesotho. Which is a small country inside the borders of South Africa. Danny and I enjoyed the Clarens. Area so much we stayed two extra days after the wedding. Which was incredible. The lan...
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Danny & Annie @ VSO: January 2009
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Danny and Annie @ VSO. Monday, 12 January 2009. Tips on settling in for volunteers outside of Kampala. These are tips only for volunteers outside of Kampala since Kampala is a totally different world from the rest of Uganda - plenty of shopping malls, etc. Our house had a table, 2 wooden chairs, 2 single beds with mattresses and a toilet brush. No dishes, nothing to clean with, no basins for doing laundry, no clothesline, no sheets, blankets, etc. It took many months to fully furnish our house. Jerry can...
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Danny & Annie @ VSO: HOME!
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Danny and Annie @ VSO. Tuesday, 6 October 2009. After tearful goodbyes in Kampala and at the airport, we took the long journey home to Scotland. We've been touring the Inverness area with Danny's daughter and her husband, and getting used to the drastic drop in temperature. Here's a few pics I took yesterday and I'll continue blogging here:. Photos: Urquhart Castle, village of Drumnadrochit, Caledonian Canal in Fort Augustus. Http:/ solasachanalba.blogspot.com/. 15 October 2009 at 23:13. Daily life for us.
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Danny & Annie @ VSO: The final month
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Danny and Annie @ VSO. Thursday, 3 September 2009. The college is on term break until September 7th so Danny and I have been taking short holidays the last couple of weeks such as two nights at Kingfisher Lodge overlooking the Rift Valley and three nights at Arcadia Cottages at Lake Bunyonyi. On the way back from Lake Bunyonyi we stopped by to see the former principal of our college, Lwamafa Javan. Danny, Evaristo and his parents. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Previously Mbarara, Uganda. PBS Frontl...
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