Tag: Canada

What Does it Take For a Girl to Get a Passport Around Here? Adventures in Being Canadian Abroad
May 4, 2012

What Does it Take For a Girl to Get a Passport Around Here? Adventures in Being Canadian Abroad

I’m still Canadian. I say this with a certain degree of relief because, well, until yesterday my passport had been in the hands of the Canadian Consulate in Shanghai and I was getting a very strong impression that they were on the verge of revoking …

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Final Notes on Having Gone Home- Aw, Dang it, Canada!
July 24, 2011

Final Notes on Having Gone Home- Aw, Dang it, Canada!

  It’s a funny thing writing about Canada from an internet cafe in Kandy, waterlogged and slightly dizzy from the monsoons, with bejajs sputtering past and Sinhalese pop music blaring. I’ve had a follow-up post fomenting in my head since, well, since about a week …

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Not a Top 10 List: My 7 Favourite Posts
July 14, 2011

Not a Top 10 List: My 7 Favourite Posts

  It’s a funny thing about going home again after a relatively long absence (a year and a half this time), even if it’s only for three weeks: Everything is just so normal and calm and sane and utterly non-extraordinary that I really don’t have …

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Pan-Fried Goat Milk Paneer with Chilies, Garlic and Ginger
July 6, 2011

Pan-Fried Goat Milk Paneer with Chilies, Garlic and Ginger

Yesterday’s goat milk paneer recipe may have ended on a cliff-hanger. That final photo of the cheese cloth wrapped bundle of freshly drained cheese was only the beginning of the story. Paneer is a beautiful thing, and goat paneer has surprised me by being even …

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How To Make Goat Milk Paneer (and a few meditations on place and purpose)
July 5, 2011

How To Make Goat Milk Paneer (and a few meditations on place and purpose)

  I’ve been back home for just over a week. The skies have been all sparkly and bright blue and the sun shines so brightly that, well, I have to wear sunglasses a lot more often than I’ve ever had to in Shanghai. Have I …

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9 Notes on Re-Entering Canada After Quite a Long Time Away
June 29, 2011

9 Notes on Re-Entering Canada After Quite a Long Time Away

I have evaded jet lag! I have traveled four hundred bazillion light years from Shanghai to Vancouver to Vancouver Island, crossed the International Date Line, stayed up for 34 hours continuously during my journey and initial arrival, and seem to have righted my circadian rhythms …

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Notes on Going Home Again
June 19, 2011

Notes on Going Home Again

One thing I’ve learned over the past seven years of blogging is to not post when you are sick, exhausted or pissed off. If you are sick or exhausted, it inevitably comes out in a strained, rather incoherent stream. If you are pissed off, the …

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