Monday, December 26, 2011

Lake Toba


We decided to fly to Medan, Indonesia for our Christmas holiday this year. The main factor in our decision was that the return tickets were less than $30 each. If you’re reading this blog to learn something about travel, then let me warn you that there is absolutely no reason to stay in Medan for more than a day or night. Lyna seriously hates the place and I knew I had to get us out of there quick before she exploded on me. We decided to haul ass to Lake Toba.

Lake Toba is the most chill place I’ve been to in a long time. It’s definitely a good place regardless of your age or gender. It’s kind of like being in cottage country in Ontario.  There really isn’t much to do here, but I’m definitely not going to complain about that. I’m really enjoying having time to decompress from a hectic semester teaching and learning.

The pictures posted below are from my iPad because one of us forgot to bring the charger for our Canon camera. 

A picture of Lyna on the lake. This is taken at the restaurant we ate our Christmas dinner at. 


Enjoying an afternoon beer on Christmas day. I earned it. I ran about 5k in the early afternoon and then walked the same route with Lyna to do a bar crawl. 


Yes, you can openly buy magic mushrooms here. Upon check-in at my hotel, the manager promptly offered me shrooms for about $8. Thanks, but no thanks!



Thursday, December 1, 2011

Last Day of Class

Nov 30: Lyna not feeling so well. She claims it was bad milk I put in the coffee I made her. No matter what, it's my fault.

Movember 30th, just hours before my hockey team got knocked out of playoff contention. It was an awesome game and I'm psyched on next season.

Dec 1: Last day of class. This is (some of) Period 3. Notice my missing Mo.

Hanging with El Neilnio. He attended both the Period 3 and Period 5 class parties. No one has ever done that before.

I was going to make this my profile on Facebook, but posting it here works well too.

Yes, I do break dance on special occasions.


Period 5 ordered lots of pizza.


It was gone within five minutes.







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Bucket of muffins provided by Michelle from Period 6. 

Period 6

The student council president study during the class party.