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Fool around the world. The fable of the two impossibles →. May 1, 2007 · 7:16 pm. Can someone be this much of a fool and still make it around the world? Links, updates, and stories of my misadventures around the world. And for points of comparison, I’ll be tracking stories of other clueless Americans for the positive and negative of cultural exchange through inept tourism. The fable of the two impossibles →. One response to “. May 1, 2007 at 7:16 pm. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here.
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Fool around the world. May 3, 2007 · 6:05 pm. The fable of the two impossibles. A certain unnamed guidebook writer. OK, it was me) locked my keys in a rental car. Far away from the nearest town, I appealed to locals of the small hill village for help. I figured the resourceful country folk would know how to pop the locks on an economy car. The favorite first word of Italians when you ask them to do anything outside of the rules. No one would touch the car and risk the wrath of Rental Corporation. Impossi...
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Dunked in Manila: Back to Work
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Bill Fink's story of a year of work, basketball, romance, and other disasters in the Philippines. Wednesday, January 30, 2008. As the header of this blog mentions, Dunked in Manila covers the year I worked in the Philippines. While I often considered my work at IBM. To be an inconvenience between games of basketball and trips to beaches or bars, somehow I managed to fulfill the duties of my AIESEC. Internship. My confusing first day at work is summarized here. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I'm a tr...
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Dunked in Manila: January 2008
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Bill Fink's story of a year of work, basketball, romance, and other disasters in the Philippines. Wednesday, January 30, 2008. As the header of this blog mentions, Dunked in Manila covers the year I worked in the Philippines. While I often considered my work at IBM. To be an inconvenience between games of basketball and trips to beaches or bars, somehow I managed to fulfill the duties of my AIESEC. Internship. My confusing first day at work is summarized here. Links to this post. I'm a travel writer base...
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Dunked in Manila: December 2007
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Bill Fink's story of a year of work, basketball, romance, and other disasters in the Philippines. Monday, December 31, 2007. New Year's Eve in the Philippines. Since it's 12/31, I should mention that New Year's Eve in the Philippines is a fun, and always explosive event. Tons of San Miguel beer, many parties, great food, family gatherings, and lots and lots of fireworks. Both official city celebrations and thousands of people on the streets launch fireworks in the sky and/or at each other. The squirrel&#...
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Dunked in Manila: August 2007
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Bill Fink's story of a year of work, basketball, romance, and other disasters in the Philippines. Sunday, August 26, 2007. Nuns, strippers, and hoops. What's not to like? Rarely does one get to see strippers and nuns hanging out in the same venue. Not to mention dancing transvestites, cows, and a rogue bottle of ethyl alcohol doing a jig. Yes, it's professional basketball in the Philippines, and everyone comes out (no pun intended) to see the action. To a team called the " Beermen. Everyone was doing the...
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Fool around the world. Bill Fink has professional experience laying sod, evaluating cream cheese, and emptying porta-potties. He supplements these and other activities by doing freelance travel writing for such outlets as the. Lonely Planet, and Frommer’s. He has covered such topics as professional trash dump loincloth volleyball. In Burma and bunker tours in Albania. Travelers’ Tales Best Travel Writing 2006. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Address never made public).