Sunday, September 16, 2012

50 by 50

I have always loved to travel and I've been to 47 US states.  My family went on only 3 major vacations when I was a kid and we drove through a lot of states.  I've been to others due to races or vacations.  The only 3 I haven't been to is New Mexico, Utah, and Hawaii.  I really want to see the national parks in Utah and the magnificent scenery in Utah.  and of course Hawaii!!  but now that I'm overseas those states are going to have to wait.  Now I'm working on Countries. :)

When I moved overseas I had only been to 4 countries.
 1) United States - lived there my whole life
 2)  Mexico - a 10 day high school Spanish trip
 3) Canada - a one day stop on a cruise
 4) Ecuador - a total of about 30 days in three summers

Pretty limited traveler!!

Year 1 
In my first year of teaching overseas I have doubled my country count!!  2011
    5) India
    6) Israel - 10 days at Christmas
    7)  Jordan - 3 days at Petra
    8)Turkey - one day flight lay over in Istanbul but I got to see some great things
    9)Ireland - was there for 5 weeks traveling and working on my masters degree. 

I've also done some traveling in India.
 
    a)  I went on a weekend trip to Aurangabad and saw some amazing caves with sculptures and paintings   With Andrea and Megan
    b)  I went to Matheran twice.  Once to check it out and once for our Week Without Walls trip with the  kids.  Matheran is a pedestrian hill station where a lot of British went for holidays. 
    c)  I went to Kerala for Diwali - it is a southern coastal state of India - lots of greeen space and hiking.   We saw tea plantations and went on a house boat on the backwaters. With Andrea, Zach, and Nancy
     d) A bunch of us went to the beaches of Goa for Thanksgiving.
              Andrea, Zach, Nancy, Angelo
     e) I went to lonavala with a bunch of faculty members to a teachers house.
    f)  I took the kids to Delhi for Math Counts
    g)  I worked with Habitat for Humanity in Kajarat twice
     h) For Spring Break I went to Aamby Valley City to a resort. (by myself) near Lonavala


Year 2 

      Oct. break - Delhi, Agra (the Taj mahal) and Jaipur  with Evelyn, Hannah and Cate
      Diwali - Kolkata to site see and to volunteer with Mother Theresa's Sisters of 
           Mercy.  with Evelyn and Gretchen
      Math Counts -Chennai 
      Christmas - Mediterranean cruise
      10)  Cyprus
      11) Greece
      12) Italy
      13)  Vatican City
               Turkey and Israel again.

       February - amritsar and the pakistan border crossing with Jordan
      14) spring Break - thailand (Bangkok and Chang mai) to see nancy and Zach

Summer
    Ireland for 4 weeks
    15) England (london) for a week  stonhenge, bath,

Year 3

    Diwali - Jodpur and camel camp - Emily, Evelyn and her mom
    16) Fall break - Maldives by myself
    17) Math workshop - Warsaw Poland
    Christmas - home
    18) Leadership team NESA conference - Oman
    Math counts - Mumbai
    19) Math workshop - Vienna Austria
    Spring break - Israel (marathon) and Turkey( Desi and Jillian)
    20) May break - Hong Kong to see Jordan
 

    21) summer - Peru

   Year 4
    fall break cruise Turkey, Italy Greece Croatia
   22) math workshop  - nice France 
   23) went to dinner in Monaco while in Nice
   math workshop - warsaw poland
   24) Netherlands - one night coming back to india from poland
   25) Jan NESA conference Bahrain
   26) February Math counts UAE
   27) math workshop - Dubrovnik croatia (spring Break)
   28) visited montenegro while in Dubrovnik
   29) visited Bosnia and Herzegovina while in Dubrovnik

cruise- summer with stacy and norma
    france italy spain monaco
   30) Spain
   31) Andorra

year 5
32) fall break Luxemburg
33) Saabrucken, Germany for a day
34) Diwali - Ankor Wat Siem Reap Cambodia
Christmas - cruise and Puerto Rico
35) Barbados 
36) St. Lucia
37) St. Kitts and Nevis
38) spring break Sri Lanka 
London on the way home in the summer for adaptive schools
39) Belgium and the Netherlands during the summer coming back to India


Year 6

fall break Seychelles  40
christmas home and sri lanka
spring Phuket thailand
math counts Kathmandu Nepal  41


year 7
moved to Brazil  42
weekend trip to ouro preto
Iguazu falls, Argentina 42
christmas  mexico, belize, guatemala, el salvador, honduras, nicaragua, costa rica  48
Carnival  Paraguay  49
summer  galapagos ecuador

Year 8
christmas home
spring break nashville
summer  germany, denmark, estonia, finland, sweden, russia  54


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