I’ve been trying to get lessons for about 5 years (believe it or now, kite surfing has been around that long!) and I finally went kitesurfing for four days in Hua Hin, Thailand (just like Alpenprinzessin below me! I also would call it “my new obsession” like she does). It was amazing and while I still can’t consistently get upwind, I can get up on the board and cruise almost every try, and get pretty far each time. It was so much fun that I’m going to buy my own gear this summer and spend about two months at the beach in New York to keep kite surfing.
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Since January I’ve read:
(1)Love in the Time of Cholera, (2)Memories of my Melancholy Whores, and (3)Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez;
(4)Dr. Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party and (5)Orient Express by Graham Greene;
(6)A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens;
(7)Bad Dirt by Annie Proulx;
(8)Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie;
(9)The Zahir by Paolo Coelho;
(10)Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
and am currently reading:
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond;
Sea Fever a book of selected poetry by John Masefield;
Triumph on Everest, A Tribute From the Sherpas of Nepal
I think 10 books so far this year is pretty decent since I’m working full time and living in a crazy and fun foreign country. Of course, I’d love to be reading as much as SpaceCakeGirl, who seems to have read a number of the same books as I have this year, along with many more. I’m jealous.
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because they mean that I can actually go to grad school next year! So far I’ve been accepted to three schools, which I’m thrilled about because the schools I applied to are all ridiculously competitive. Now I just have to find out how horrible the debt I’ll be in afterwards will be, come on financial aid…
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