Though we live and work in Europe, we’re still Canadian and Canada is close to our hearts. Sometimes we have a thought about Canada; sometime we’re even in Canada.
On the 30th we returned from our last major speaking trip during our time in Canada. 3 605.1 would be the number of kilometers we racked up on this trip alone. A significant portion of the last few months has been spent speaking and connecting with people both near and far. We really get a… Read More 3 605.1 kms (that’s 2,240.1 miles for the kilometer-challenged)
If you’re not quite sure what The Bed Count is, we’ve decided that rather than tracking the number of places we visit, kilometers we drive, days we are here or numbers of nights we sleep in Canada, we would measure our time by counting the number of beds we have slept in. Here is the… Read More The Bed Count – June
We’ve hit another milestone in our process towards life in Poland. We are now officially students in the Polish language and culture faculty at Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika (University of Nicolas Copernicus) in Toruń, Poland. These acceptance papers will help streamline our visa application process as we will be entering Poland on student visa’s to start… Read More Step Two
This month we still spent a lot of time on the move, but we were able to use some key places to launch from (and not be in a different place each night). At this point in time 30 is looking like a guarantee – 40 seems maybe a little out of reach as we… Read More The Bed Count – May
Historymaker (HM) is the annual youth conference for students from across British Columbia and the Yukon. We were involved in the planning and organizing of HM in May of 2008 and figured since we were in BC for this one, we’d get involved. It’s not very often that we are in Canada to assist Canadians… Read More Historymaker 2010 : Fearless
2,600 kilometers in 8 days. Here is the visual: we’re driving a Plymouth Breeze, How to Learn Polish tapes (yes, an actual cassette) playing loudly, windows down, hair blowing in the wind, cooler full of V8 and nuts in the back – for almost 40 hours! Every 2 years PAOC has a General Conference where… Read More General Conference 2010
In September we’ll be attending a language course for foreigners who want to study in Polish at a Polish University. By the end of the 8 month course we should have university level skills in speaking, reading and writing. We’ll be attending Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika (University of Nicolas Copernicus) in Toruń (about a 50 minute… Read More Step One
With our change in location out to BC, the numbers this month are up. We spent a lot of time on the road and got our rest on air beds, regular beds, bunk beds and under-sized futons. February = 6 March = 5 April = 10 Total = 21
The count has not grown as high as we thought it would by now – but we are ok with that. The count got a good boost with Amber speaking at EMERGE in the USA and Matthew still in Canada. February = 6 March = 5 Toal = 11
As we leave Slovakia we know that a lot of our life for the next 6 months will be lived out of bags and on the road. Rather than counting kilometers traveled or towns visited, we’ve decided to count the number of beds we sleep in. Of course there are rules. We will begin counting… Read More The Bed Count – February
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