Archive for May, 2007
#3: Kids Around the World

#3: Kids Around the World

Posted 29 May 2007 | By Funchilde | Categories: Culture, Funchilde - isms, Life. Love. Laughs., Lists, Semester @ Sea, Travel, Vietnam | 6 Comments

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Now, as a self-admitted “own child-a-phobe” I am actually quite enamored of children. Especially other people’s children. I was raised to respect little people as just that…deserving respect and to be [...]

#4: Cooking Class: Vietnam

#4: Cooking Class: Vietnam

Posted 27 May 2007 | By Funchilde | Categories: Lists, Pie Hole (Food), Semester @ Sea, Travel, Vietnam | 3 Comments

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } This was hands down my favorite cooking class. Possibly the best one I’ve ever taken, and as you know, I’ve taken one or two First, the class was all of $36 [...]

#5: Cooking Class: Hong Kong

#5: Cooking Class: Hong Kong

Posted 27 May 2007 | By Funchilde | Categories: Hong Kong, Lists, Pie Hole (Food), Semester @ Sea | 1 Comment

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Chinese Cuisine Training Institute (CCTI). Now that’s what I call a fire!  

#6: Cooking Class: South Africa

#6: Cooking Class: South Africa

Posted 27 May 2007 | By Funchilde | Categories: Africa, Lists, Pie Hole (Food), Semester @ Sea, Travel | 5 Comments

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Samosas (on the right) and “fried bits”…really, that’s what she called them! yummy!

#7: Cooking Class: India

#7: Cooking Class: India

Posted 27 May 2007 | By Funchilde | Categories: India, Pie Hole (Food), Semester @ Sea, Travel | 1 Comment

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } I took 4 cooking classes while out on the road. Loved the introduction to the history of a particular country’s cuisine, access to local culinary talent and new tips/tricks on how [...]

#8: The Union aka The Living Room

#8: The Union aka The Living Room

Posted 26 May 2007 | By Funchilde | Categories: Lists, Semester @ Sea, Travel | 1 Comment

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Onboard the ship, The Union was the main gathering space for large community events. I loved it when the union was full, it was like a huge, cozy living room with [...]

#9: Brown Paper Studios Theatre

#9: Brown Paper Studios Theatre

Posted 23 May 2007 | By Funchilde | Categories: Misc. | 1 Comment

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } DSCN3613, originally uploaded by funchilde. Brown Paper Studios is the name of the outfit that Professor Judyie Al-Bilali runs in Capetown, So. Africa. On ship she taught 3 courses, including a [...]

#10: Remembering Virginia Tech

#10: Remembering Virginia Tech

Posted 22 May 2007 | By Funchilde | Categories: Misc. | No Comments

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } DSCN3689, originally uploaded by funchilde. Terrible pic, but i busted my coolpix S6, so yes, every time i leave the country, i sacrifice a nikon coolpix to the camera gods. we [...]

#11: On Ship Faculty/Staff Lounge

#11: On Ship Faculty/Staff Lounge

Posted 20 May 2007 | By Funchilde | Categories: Misc. | 4 Comments

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } faculty/staff lounge , originally uploaded by funchilde. The faculty/staff lounge was the one place on board where students could not go. It was our own slice of heaven complete with Karaoke [...]

#12: Places of Worship Around the World

#12: Places of Worship Around the World

Posted 20 May 2007 | By Funchilde | Categories: Misc. | No Comments

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } DSCN2630, originally uploaded by funchilde. By the end I was admittedly “Templed Out” but I enjoyed visiting the Churches, Synagogues, Temples and Shrines from Brazil to Japan. Watching how the world [...]