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| hello all,
katherine is experiencing difficulties in posting and getting to her xanga. so, she asked me to post this so that people do not think she's dropped off the face of the earth.please stay tuned as she may be moving to a new location, namely a blogspot. however, that is not in full effect yet, so please come back for more information. see you soon!
thanks! secretary to kat
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this just in: katherine has moved for sure.
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| Today I had my junior writing students create stories about my Spring Festival vacation. I wrote a list of words on the board they had to include in the story (i.e. Vietnam, water cave, motorbike). The best story (as voted by the class) won dinner with me. Below is the winning description of my trip.
On vacation, Miss Katherine went to Vietnam with Mr. and Mrs. Wu. They got on the plane in a rain storm at midnight. But the plane broke, so they had to land on a river. The situation became very dangerous, but suddenly there came a water buffalo, and Miss Katherine got on it--she's safe! But what about Mr. and Mrs. Wu? Don't worry, they are safe too. Look, Mrs. Wu is now taking a boat and Mr. Wu is riding a motorbike near the river. It's amazing! Are they Superman? Soon, they go through Vietnam and reach Cambodia. When they go through a water cave they meet Mr. Halligan, he is setting off fireworks! How funny! But they have him join them and they go to Thailand together. They see many ancient ruins. Then they came back to China in a tunnel, no one knows who built it, but when they come out they see the Great Wall. They had a snowball fight on it, but then a policeman took them all and put them in the Wu Da prison.
Setting off fireworks in a cave? Mr. Halligan...you should know better!
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What do four people who love taking pictures do to entertain themselves when traveling in exoctic locations? Why, they form an imaginary band and take countless pictures of themselves for the album art.
Now introducing Tzu's Sonic Death Monkeys:
The lengths we go to for a band photo...
 
Source of inspiration...Tzu:
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| There are so many stories to tell about the last two months of traveling...as I have time I'll try to share some of the more entertaining ones. We'll start with a tale of train traveling...
Kirsten (our wonderful Vietnam host) decided that our trip to Vietnam would not be complete without a visit to Sapa, a town in the mountains of northern Vietnam near the Chinese border. Kirsten arranged tickets for the trip, and not wanting to commit us to expensive tickets, purchased hard seaters. On an overnight train this is not exactly the optimal mode of transport (especially when we found out Vietnamese hard seats, unlike Chinese hard seats, are literally hard seats...we're talking wooden park benches). So at the station we investigated the possibility of upgrading to sleepers. We found a guy who said he might be able to arrange such a change and waited on the platform as he went to check into things. He came back and informed us there was only one bed available, but that it should be fine for us because it had its own private cabin. So we followed him at a brisk pace--ending in a run--and boarded the train to discover our luxury accomadations: the three by six foot steward's cabin (or more correctly, closet). But it had a bed (and a luggage rack with a sheet on it)...and we could rotate from our hard seats...oh, but wait, no, we were on an entirely different train from our hard seats. We asked how much this change was going to cost us, the guy said 200,000 dong ($1 US = 16,000 dong). We decided it was worth it, until he said it was 200,000 per person. We started to get off the train, but then managed to bargain the price down. And so as the train chugged away the four of us (Kirsten, Jason, Seth and I) settled into our "private cabin"--complete with a rusted lantern and tool kit. We all scrunched on to the bunk to watch a movie and then sought out the best sleeping positions. Seth ended up on the luggage rack (you know it's a bad night when the luggage rack is the most comfortable bed...), Kirsten and I cuddled on the 4ft by 1ft bunk, and Jason curled up on the oh so clean floor. Not exactly the best night of sleep I've had, but Kirsten and I sure bonded in a real special way. (And as a sidenote, we had the hard seaters on the way back to Hanoi...and the steward's cabin was actually looking a little better then...)
  
Arriving to views like this made it all worth it...
For more pictures of the trip than you could possibly want to look through, check out my flickr site
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