Where are everybody?!

CIAO!!!
How r u all?Its longtime since I dont write in this blog, unfortunately I havent had so much time :(
So, how r u?What r u doing??
I am ok but missing the UK so much!So...be prepared...I will be back!!!
Now I'm just enojoying holidays and this wonderfully sunny summer -I confess I definitely love sun and sea!!!And next week -the 15th of August- will be my birthday, sol I will celebrate with a very huge chocolate cake...slurp!!!
Hope to hear form u very soon!!!Miss u all!

Watch Out!!!

Hodgkin House will be overrun by former residents next weekend as Fede and Lucia from Italia and Ana from España and Justin from the US are all coming to visit!!! We'll also be inviting other ex-Hodgkin Housers like SJ, Edu, Anna and Fabio and whoever else is around to join us for some big dinners and nights out in Bristol (Yia Mass!)....

You've been warned.

Happy New Year everyone!

Just another day...

It was just another day in La Rochelle...
The sun was shining and the air smelled of iodine and salt of the Atlantic ocean. It was as though summer refused to leave...but things can never stay the same for long.

Anyway, just thought I'd post something here. It's almost midnight and I've just finished working on my presentation for tomorrow afternoon.

~shahiz_sk 

October in Montana, USA

Hello everyone! Hopefully we get more people posting again soon. But for now a quick update from Montana and some more photos (see my previous post for instructions on how to put in photos).

As some of you know, I just spent a fabulous month (most of August) in Spain with Ana (photos here). Now I'm back in Montana and super super busy. I'm taking a full course-load in Philosophy for a Masters degree and I'm also teaching Buddhism at the University of Montana.

This is probably the most beautiful time of the year in Montana, as the deciduous trees turn from green to yellow, orange, and red and the leaves fall to the ground, creating a yellow-orange carpet with bits of green grass poking through. The skies too are incredibly beautiful, with purple evenings and vivid red and pink sunsets. This is the time of year when I'm most happy to be in Montana.

Soon, though, it will get very very cold and I'll wish I were in England or Spain! Then I'll try to do some travels for school and work, including Hawaii in January (again) hopefully. Then in February I'll go to Ohio (not too interesting). But finally, in March I plan on coming back to BRISTOL!!!!! for a postgraduate conference and to visit schools in Liverpool and London to hopefully do my Ph.D. there.

So all of you still at Hodgkin House or elsewhere in Bristol, I'll want to see you! I hope to spend a whole week in Bristol, so I'll have lots of time to visit and catch up.

Well that's all for me for now. I'm super busy with all of my classes and teaching. And I miss you all, and miss being so close to the world (Montana is a long ways from EVERYTHING!) so do come visit me if you can! It's far away, but it is beautiful here.

Bestest of wishes to you all! - Justin Whitaker

hello everyone!

Hi again from the US. I've heard from some of you through email and others from word of mouth, but more, hopefully, will say hello here.

PICTURES/PHOTOS/FOTOS!! to put up a picture, there is an icon for you to click on when you are writing here:
Then it opens up a new window:
and you have to find your photos on your computer or if you have them online already (on flickr perhaps, like me) you can link directly to them.

So put up your photos!! And here are some of mine:

You might recognize the beautiful woman with me, Ana from Spain! She has been the most exciting part of my life lately. She visited in the end of March and early April and we drove from Montana to Las Vegas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, through Oregon and back to Montana in seven days! In August I will go to Spain to see her and we will probably travel about as much, but I think Spain is too small to go that far.

I'll be here in Montana for another year (maybe two!) to finish my MA in Philosophy. This year I've been awarded full funding to teach English writing to the incoming 1st-year students. I also might get a job as the University's Buddhism instructor, since the current one is taking a two-year leave, which would make me soooooooooo happy. For now I'm working at the Center for Ethics here at the Uni and I enjoy that very much. I'm not teaching yet, but I am learning a lot about teaching and very much look forward to this autumn when I will teach. I think my travels and studies in Bristol have made a lot of this possible (including meeting Ana and all of you at Hodgkin House!), so I'm very grateful that I could do that, and glad I did. This summer I'll get some pictures of Montana and Spain and put them up next chance I get. Hopefully everyone else can put up pictures now too!

I should send out special thanks to all my Italian friends for their football team letting America tie with them, and especially to the Italian player who scored the goal for the US! And congratulations to the French for beating Spain, my other favorite team because of Ana.

From Italy

Ciao!
How r u? I'm fine, just started my lessons again after Easter holidays. It has been quite hard I have to admit...!! I would like to post my pixes as to show them to u, but I dont know how :(
However, things here are ok. Moreover, summer -which is my favourite season!!- seems to have started...wow!
A warm hug to u all