Hi!
In the spring of 2003, I had another one of those trips around the world. I hope I'll get the time to make a decent webpage about the trip one day, but in the mean time, this will do... My goals were to:
- seeing beautiful places (I like beaches, art museums etc)
- staying in French-speaking areas (to try to learn a bit more French)
- visiting some schools to get some idea of what the school systems are like in other countries
- meet nice people (travelling alone and not talk to anyone is boring...)
- Johannesburg, South Africa. Here I visited the teacher education at the University of the Witwatersrand, which was very interesting. I also went on a guided tour of Soweto, and visited the Apartheid Museum... I went on to
- Reunion, a beautiful little French island east of Madagaskar. I spent about a week there, enjoying the sun. But I also visited the teacher education in St. Denis. Then I went on to
- Singapore. I only spent a few days, but they were wonderful. I visited both a primary school and the teacher education. I also went to a museum, a zoo, to Chinatown and Little India and so on, and spent some time with a very nice local, with whom I discussed Iranian movies. Then I travelled on to
- Sydney, Australia - where I enjoyed the end of Mardi Gras, before I saw some of the important sights. I didn't like Sydney as much as I expected, but I know that Australia is more than the backpacker district of Sydney... After half a week, I went on to
- New Zealand, where I travelled around for about three weeks. I visited a friend in Dunedin, then travelled north. One of the highlights of the entire round-the-world-trip was the Maori experience in Rotorua. I'll have to say more about that in a later version of this page... Then I went on to
- Papeete, Tahiti. Teacher education, two schools, beaches, sun... A wonderful week and a half... While on Tahiti and Moorea I also had no less than two job interviews for jobs back in Norway (on the phone, of course). I got one of them. To get back home, I had to go via the USA, so I enjoyed a few days in
- Los Angeles, USA. I went to Universal Studios, as well as studying mathematics lessons at The Lesson Lab. I also looked at art in a museum. My last stop was
- Montreal, Canada. The highlight here (except being asked, via email, to be a friend's Best Man), was a baseball game in the Olympic Stadium. Then I went back home (via London and Oslo).
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