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denise · Joined: 23 Apr 2003 Posts: 3419 Location: finally home-ish

I'm happy in my new job and home, but still... the temperature is hovering somewhere around 100 degrees (what is that in Celsius? 40ish?) and will only increase; the students are getting restless, so much so that they are giving themselves mini "breaks" and just randomly not showing up to anyone's classes; there has been only one holiday this semester, compared to a few weeks in the first semester; and we're all anxiously awaiting word as to acceptable departure dates for summer break.

Soooo... my question to all you folks is: how soon is too soon to start dreaming about lounging on the beach/going "home" and eating in your favorite restaurants, shopping in your favorite shops, not being stared at everywhere you go/travelling/whatever else you do during summer vacation?

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kaw · Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 5:12 pm Post subject:

I started dreaming about getting off this island and onto my beach in Zanzibar the minute I landed after my last holiday........it's not that I don't like my job - I do but when you've seen paradise nothing else can come close.

jammish · Joined: 17 Nov 2005 Posts: 1704

See - for me - this windy cold place in northern china is home for me now. I have a wife, kid, feel settled now. I'm actually going back to the UK for a holiday, then maybe thailand next february for a holiday. This is home though.

denise · Joined: 23 Apr 2003 Posts: 3419 Location: finally home-ish

I know that home can be a weird concept in this job--hence the quotation marks. I'll be headed back to the US this summer, but not to the place(s) that I consider "home".

Oh, and is that a line from "The Prestige"? (Or did they borrow it from somewhere else?) Great movie!

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SueH · Joined: 01 Feb 2003 Posts: 1022 Location: Northern Italy

Summer holiday??? It's been so warm here this winter that I'm looking forward to next winter! They've just closed the local lifts and it's been a really poor snow year. Maybe a few days at the Matterhorn before those lifts close too. Plus the football [soccer] season is coming to an end, and all I've got to look forward to is hard pre-season training at the end of summer on bone-hard pitches which do my tendons no good at all!

Mind you, I am beginning to think about summer and learning 'please', 'thank you', 'beer' and 'wine' in various languages. I've three weeks sailing as crew to look forward to: Sardinia to Venice via Sicily,Greece and Croatia. Certainly beats summer schools!

ilaria · Joined: 26 Jan 2007 Posts: 88 Location: Sicily

The horrors of summer school in the UK await me. Crying or Very sad

tedkarma · Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 11:09 pm Post subject:

Tis the rainy season in paradise here - lovely!

I just head up the road about 90 minutes to Khao Lak for long uninhabited beaches - and great beach combing.

Guess I day dream about vacations ALL the time . . .

denise · Joined: 23 Apr 2003 Posts: 3419 Location: finally home-ish

kaw · Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 5:14 pm Post subject:

A winter getaway - what a scary thought....
I can handle the snow - thats's fine - it's just the cold, grey, wetness that winter brings I hate. Guess I'll be staying out here for a lot longer...

Perpetual Traveller · Joined: 29 Aug 2005 Posts: 651 Location: In the Kak, Japan

I start before the last one has even finished, I am constantly thinking 'where to next?'. What can I say, I am a planner! Razz

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