VACATION, Here I Come!

It's official: I'm done school at 4:30 (at the latest) on December 30 and I'm back on January 25. I teach four days of winter camp, then I'm off again from January 29 until February 3 (when we return to school). I'll book my flight for the night of December 30 and we'll have New Year's on the beach! Yippee!


I've emailed Nathan and we are so totally stoked about the Big Trip to Thailand. Or the Big Thai, as I'm calling it now. Ah yes, The Big Thai will be fabulous. I can't WAIT!

Just to give you a little sampling of the divinity that will be this trip, I am researching places to go outside the traditional elephant ride and beach from The Beach (more accurately, I am finding them by chance and Nathan is giving them a yeah or nah, based on his experience there). Above is a picture of the Author's Lounge at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Bangkok. It is where Joseph Conrad wrote much of Heart of Darkness. Professor Thoms introduced me to the book back in 2000. Looking at the English UWO website though, it looks like he's retired since then. What a shame. Without his enthusiasm about Conrad, I wouldn't be going to the Author's Lounge. I wonder if he'll ever read this...