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Summer plans?
What are your summer plans?
I am going to Hawaii this week for 2 weeks. I love it there and want to move there. I snorkel and can go anytime of the year any day of the week. There are gorgeous fish and even sea turtles. There is a sangha there that I want to join when I move there. There is a University there that teaches Buddhist studies, Japanese, and lots of languages and philosophy. Plus believe it or not, it is actually less expensive than where I am living now.
After Hawaii I go on a writing retreat in the coastal mountains of Big Sur. There is a monastery there with trailers. The retreat will be in silence, except for when we gather to do our writing together. I am a poet and nature lover so I can't wait to have this retreat.
Then I go to Holland with a close friend and my housemate. The three of us have rented a house in Haarlem. I am writing a book on Amsterdam and will be finishing that up while there. I love Amsterdam and will be thrilled to share it with good people.
I am going to Hawaii this week for 2 weeks. I love it there and want to move there. I snorkel and can go anytime of the year any day of the week. There are gorgeous fish and even sea turtles. There is a sangha there that I want to join when I move there. There is a University there that teaches Buddhist studies, Japanese, and lots of languages and philosophy. Plus believe it or not, it is actually less expensive than where I am living now.
After Hawaii I go on a writing retreat in the coastal mountains of Big Sur. There is a monastery there with trailers. The retreat will be in silence, except for when we gather to do our writing together. I am a poet and nature lover so I can't wait to have this retreat.
Then I go to Holland with a close friend and my housemate. The three of us have rented a house in Haarlem. I am writing a book on Amsterdam and will be finishing that up while there. I love Amsterdam and will be thrilled to share it with good people.
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Knight, what is your novel about?
Jacx, what is behind your wanting to learn Chinese?
Hawaii sounds great, Island! I'd love to see those really big waves there. And I love Amsterdam, too. The art gallery's fantastic.
Palzang
I'm learning modern Chinese this year, so that next year I can go to Hong Kong University to learn classical Chinese and Buddhist studies. My shirfu used to be a prof there and is helping me out with my plans and schemes (though he's about 65% convinced that the culture shock would send me scurrying home to Canada within weeks!).
Well, I have written quite a number of short stories over the years, but now I think I'd like to write a big one. I was throwing around a couple ideas, but I think I've got one that I like. Lately, I have been reading a lot about the eugenics movements in the early 20th century. So I'm starting to write a story about what a eugenics policy would look like if applied to modern America. Namely; a federal agency that would issue marital and reproductive 'licenses' only to the most 'fit' members of society.
The story itself would be about a bureaucrat in the agency who finds himself fallen in love with an 'unfit' member of society.
:bigclap: :rockon:
I am going to be starting as a Manager to a quality Italian Delicatessen...
They're in St Albans, but are spreading their wings and venturing out and broadening their horizons....
I'll be given the task of running the branch whilst the Manager-owner is going to be promoting the Franchise side of things and launching a couple of other projects too....
I start initially on a 4-day week, but hopefully, in a month it will be a full-time 5-day week.
He never opens on a Sunday, so I'll still be able to teach my Qi Gong, and do my Dog Behaviourist stuff....! Kewel!!
Whaddya all think - ?!
Congratulations, Fede. Sounds great.
Sweet! Congratulations Fede!
Palzang
Pally, I'm really pleased for you. I hope you have a wonderful, fruitful and fulfilling time.
behave yourself and take a clean hanky.
And don't forget to wash behind your ears..;)
Palzang
I am praying for a safe birth and a happy life. Congratulations. You are on the early steps of a brand new path, full of unexpected twists and turns. May you always find shade from the sun and shelter from the storm.
Thank you Simon. I appreciate that very much.
Thank you very much Brigid! 13 more days until the due date, we're getting more and more anxious everyday. I'll be sure to post some pics of her as soon as I can. Thanks again and I hope that everything is going good for you.
Being preoccupied with studies I'm not giving it a lot of thought right now, but plan to spend at least two days at the British Museum, plus see Rye, East Sussex, Cambridge, and a few other outlying places I've never seen before. I want to see Greenwich, too, just to have been there. Also plan to visit the Vedanta Center at Bourne End, where I've been before, and will just want to enjoy the stoical and intelligent English people.
Where do the Buddhists go? Anybody care to tell?
Anywhere but England... (D'oh!)
Palzang
You would be so welcome!:smilec::smilec::smilec:
Palzang