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CYPRUS | Thu, 23 Mar 2017 | By charis | Views [525]
Pa – pou – tsó – si – ka!
“Shoe figs”, man, what don’t you get?! :)
I don’t know about you, but I find it very funny that in Cypriot Greek we call the prickly-pear, Opuntia ficus-Indica cactus ... Read more >
Tags: fruit, language
SPAIN | Thu, 28 Jan 2016 | By wanderlustgail | Views [635]
The curious case of lights
If you go into a bathroom in Europe and can't find the light switch, that's probably because it is outside the room. In the hallway. Where any passerby could turn the light off while you're using the bathroom and leave ... Read more >
Tags: europe, language, light switch, lights, sabbatical, travel
JAPAN | Sun, 17 Jan 2016 | By kakimono | Views [314]
Our Japanese lessons began at 9:00 AM Friday morning. Our teacher, Yamaguchi-sensei, besides having one of the easiest to write Japanese names ever, (Yama- mountain and Guchi-mouth are both in the first 20 kanji you probably learn, more or less concurrent ... Read more >
Tags: food, japanese, language, proseminar
FRANCE | Sun, 13 Sep 2015 | By kakimono | Views [259]
Wednesday I had no class. This was not a typical thing, but since most TDs were nonexistent the first week, it was true this week. This gave me a full day to myself. I caught up on the emails I needed to write (intended to catch up on the blog, but ... Read more >
Tags: books, language, registration
INDONESIA | Sun, 1 Feb 2015 | By homeless_harry | Views [657]
After my close encounter of the non-consensual kind in the last journal, I wasn't feeling as suspicious of Indonesians as what most people would. So far, I would rate them pretty highly in the friendly stakes with the other Asian countries I have visited.... Read more >
Tags: city, jakarta, language, locals, monuments, transport
INDONESIA | Mon, 26 Jan 2015 | By homeless_harry | Views [700]
PART 1: On the plane. Who ever gets an emergency exit row all to themselves? I've got more space on this plane than I had in my Bangkok hotel room. And this is a tiger flight, infamous for turning coach into a daisy-chain with 3 inches of padding separating ... Read more >
Tags: airports, drugs, friends, language, lost, planes, taxi
CANADA | Thu, 15 May 2014 | By yousr | Views [317]
Musafar مُسافر – meaning traveller in the Arabic language – comes from the root word, Safar سفر meaning travel. Safar سفر means uncovering, or expressing. Words like Tafseer تفسير and Fassar فسّر also come from it.
“Travelling, ... Read more >
Tags: language, travel
DENMARK | Sat, 12 Apr 2014 | By leifr | Views [469]
“Man, you are so weird.”
This was the rather dispiriting response from Kim, my new Danish flatmate, after telling him that I would be spending the coming year in Denmark trying to master his native tongue. Unfortunately, similar remarks ... Read more >
Tags: danish, denmark, language
SPAIN | Tue, 29 Oct 2013 | By elcastleberry | Views [576]
"Oh, I knew I was making my life into a song-and-dance routine, a production number, a shaggy dog story, a sick joke, a bit. I thought of all the longing, the pain, the letters (sent and unsent), the crying jags, the telephone monologues, the suffering, ... Read more >
Tags: drinking, friends, friendship, language, social, spain, spanish, travel
FRANCE | Thu, 3 Oct 2013 | By elcastleberry | Views [596]
Soggy clumps of the floral wallpaper fall onto my forearm as I shove the paint scraper upward against the wall. The muted green and pastel pink pattern, once so popular decades ago, now gives way to the soft, white plaster beneath it.
"Shit," ... Read more >
Tags: culture, dinner parties, food, france, french, french food, language, soup, wine
EGYPT | Fri, 2 Aug 2013 | By lorrettaburkhart | Views [400]
#1 roaming goats, how do people know whose goats are whose?
#2 the handle on the butchers knife made of goat skin complete with ginger fur, hygenic?
#3 cats love playing with plastic bags, not expensive toys
#4 where does all the wind blown ... Read more >
Tags: animals, cooking, language, people, travel
GERMANY | Wed, 15 May 2013 | By izzyabraham | Views [573]
Oh, the joys of being wrong about a country. This is a classic case of expectation vs. reality. I only visited a small part of Germany (Bonn), but it was a refreshing experience and threw away any innocently-founded prejudices I had had. ... Read more >
Tags: bonn, cologne, environment, german, germany, green, language, rhine, river
THAILAND | Fri, 22 Mar 2013 | By mountaingirl0602 | Views [514]
Got some good sleep. There is no restaurant in this hotel so I asked where to go to get something to eat. They pointed to the open market up the road. OMG, I'm going to starve! It was interesting to walk around, and they did have areas with tables and ... Read more >
Tags: flowers, food, language, thailand
INDONESIA | Sun, 18 Mar 2012 | By tracie | Views [1055]
So there are times when we think we know that the other
person has understood what we have said but they haven’t, even when we are
speaking the same language let alone when we are speaking in different
languages.
SMSing in mixed languages ... Read more >
Tags: bali, english, in, indonesia, language, lost, sms, teaching, translation, ubud
USA | Thu, 15 Dec 2011 | By stacysempson | Views [730]
Sawatdee! (That's hello in Thai) I have been doing most of my research on Thailand from my new iPhone 4S. I have downloaded 6 new Apps that are helping me do everything from learning Thai to finding the hottest after-hours clubs. The best part of ... Read more >
Tags: apps, culture, iphone, language, maps, preparation
ECUADOR | Sun, 11 Sep 2011 | By colleen_finn | Views [1151]
Today was my last day at the school, which completes the first phase of my Ecuadorian vacation. We had a special program complete with dancing, food, and a puppet show. A visitor came by the school to see the facility and observe the students. She engaged ... Read more >
Tags: adventures, language, voluntourism
ECUADOR | Tue, 6 Sep 2011 | By colleen_finn | Views [1220]
This is going to be a challenge. This is my fifth volunteer trip. Of those five, only twice did I actually do the job for which I applied. It's funny how that works, but it's yet another instance in which you must 'go with the flow.' Well this time, ... Read more >
Tags: adventures, language, voluntourism
SPAIN | Wed, 27 Jul 2011 | By nomads-survival-kit | Views [3566] | Comments [9]
Tags: adventures, driving, europe, language, laws, local, safety, spain, travel, travel tips
NICARAGUA | Mon, 25 Oct 2010 | By stephhef | Views [799]
I would hazard to guess that the first
word I learned in Spanish was “hola”. Once I thought of it as
simple word, a replacement for “hello” in my familiar tongue. I
had put relatively little thought into it. However, I've come to
recognize some of ... Read more >
Tags: hello, hola, language, meanings
WORLDWIDE | Tue, 10 Aug 2010 | By OffTheBeatenPath | Views [3918] | Comments [2]
Every journey begins with a single step, but every traveller begins with a single trip. Do you remember the very first time you left home and arrived in a foreign place? We have all been there at one point, ... Read more >
Tags: advice, culture, language, money, off the beaten path, safety, travel, travel tips
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