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Japan: Don’t Eat and Walk, just sit here; on this heated toilet seat!

seanessie — 2006-01-04T10:01:39-05:00

Japan was calm. Calm and polite. The hard part was remembering not to eat and walk at the same time because it's rude. I hope that didn't include ice cream because I really didn't want to stand outside the 7-11 and eat...

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Hong Kong: Empty pockets in Shopping Land

seanessie — 2005-12-28T09:12:47-05:00

When we got to Hong Kong we docked at a mall… seriously, you walk out of the ship and it leads you straight into a giant mall. And what was in this mall?... Ben and Jerry's, Sees Chocolate, California Pizza Kitchen,...

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Vietnam: From the city to the Mekong

seanessie — 2005-12-22T09:12:45-05:00

The first day in Vietnam I went on a field trip to 500 different religious sites. OK, it was more like eight places but it felt like 500. We went to a Mosque, a Church, some Buddhist Temples, a Cao Dai Temple, and even...

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Vietnam: Yeah, Um, We’re sorry about that.

seanessie — 2005-12-12T09:12:57-05:00

The more I learn in Global Studies the more I realize how much I don't know about the world or my own country.

The Vietnam War, or as they call it, the American War, is still highly debatable. Pretty much...

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Myanmar: Take me to a village!

seanessie — 2005-11-23T09:11:01-05:00

All politics and mass headache thoughts aside, lets talk about the beauty of Myanmar! My first day there I did a trip into a village. I loved it so much that I went back into villages on several occasions.

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Myanmar: Turn me upside down.

seanessie — 2005-11-21T08:11:41-05:00

My first day in Myanmar I decided it was my favorite country. If you don't know, Myanmar used to be called Burma until the military regime took power there in like 1988. The whole thing is really
controversial....

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India: the Ganges River, someone push me in.

seanessie — 2005-11-16T08:11:00-05:00

After 3 hours of sleep I'm up and on the way back to the Ganges for the morning rituals. Unfortunately we didn't get rickshaw rides again, but we made our way passed the beggars and the sellers loaded onto the

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India: Holy fire, Holy waters

seanessie — 2005-11-07T09:11:18-05:00

A few hours on a plane and we land in Varanassi. I have to mention before I go on that this is day 3 in India and the only Indian food I've had is on one plane ride.

The hotels and restaurants they took us...

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India: The Beautiful Islamic Architecture of Delhi and Agra

seanessie — 2005-11-03T11:11:37-05:00

India was frustrating… and for once it wasn't too much India that stressed me out but the lack of it. I wanted more, more, more.

I did one of the big four day trips… of which most of the four days is...

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Ship Life: Olympics

seanessie — 2005-10-31T08:10:49-05:00

We had the sea Olympics… pretty interesting since our events included pie eating contests, mash potato sculptures, synchronized swimming, and some other wacky events. The ship's living quarters are divided into...

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