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Expat Rants
Post your rants about living abroad here. We all have them!
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Comforts
What do you miss from home?
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Introduce Yourself!
Introduce yourself here! Who are you? Where are you from? Where do you currently reside? What do you do there? I'm Rachel, and I'm from a small town between Buffalo and Rochester, New York. I'm an ESL/EFL teacher, currently in Moscow, Russia. In September I'll be a bit north of here, doing the same in St Petersburg.
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Star Trek House
I'm not really a Star Trek fan (I've watched some and liked it, but haven't ever had the time to really get into it), but thought some of you would like this. This girl spent $30,000 converting her house into a Star Trek pad: http://www.viralnova.com/star-trek-fan/
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Serie A
Anyone else follow Serie A? What the crap is going on this season?
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My Progress
My friend took this picture of me before our "Independence Day 5k" yesterday. This wasn't the first 5k I've done, and we have made a little tradition of taking a picture of each other before each one we do together, but, I usually wear a looser shirt! :embarassed: I'm still fat, I still have about 80 more pounds I want to…
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Is running 200 miles better for you than running 100?
Interesting article: http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/breakthroughs/when-running-200-miles-is-easier-on-your-body-than-running-100-15632972 After 200 miles and three straight days of running across the Northern Italian Alps, 50-year-old Gregoire Millet wearily walks across the finish line. The brutal 2012 Tor…
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Struggling
I recently moved to Korea for a job. I'm teaching at a small school with only 7 teachers. 5 of us actually live at the school in little studio apartments in the building. 2 of the teachers are a married couple who kind of keep to themselves. Then there's me, and 2 guys. Well, basically, I hit it off really well with one of…
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Simpsons' Game of Thrones Intro
This is pretty awesome: http://io9.com/5890410/watch-the-simpsons-game-of-thrones-intro
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Nerdy Christmas Trees
http://gadgetbox.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/22/9614933-the-nerdiest-christmas-trees-ever Love 'em!
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12 Days of Christmas: SWTOR vs WOW
This had me in stitches: http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/12/07/gamebreakers-12-days-of-smack-talkin-brings-holiday-cheer-wow/
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Inspiration :)
I wanted to start a thread where I can share inspirational pictures and quotes each day. I've taken them from multiple sources (signatures on here, the glorious interwebs, etc). If you have something to add, feel free! We'll start with this one:
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Same Shirt, Different Person
I made this as a blog post but decided what the heck why not make it a thread, too :smile: I put on this shirt yesterday and it made me realize how far I really have come. It's the shirt I'm wearing in one of my "before" pictures that I use - one of the pictures which made me realize that I needed to do something NOW. I…
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Motivation and Inspiration Thread! :)
One of my favorite threads on MFP is the Funny Pictures Thread. I go there when I need a chuckle, and it never fails to make me smile. Those on my friends list (and others around here) know I like to be motivational and definitely try my hardest to be inspirational, hence the starting of this thread. Prior to signatures…
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My 2nd 5k
On October 15, I wrote about my first 5k, the Chocolate Chase, and what I overcame to get there ( http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/368702-my-inspirational-i-hope-nsv ). Today, I ran my second 5k, the "4th Year 5k", which took place on the UVA campus. It was a beautiful run, though the weather was not so beautiful.…
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Find-A-Word Test
Thought this was funny. What did you get? I got bad, funny, sap :laugh:
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The Rockets (closed group)
This thread is for check-ins, motivation and support for our team - THE ROCKETS! Rachel - bregalad5 Chrissy - Octleigh Suzie Jeana - JS295 Tennille - TWood10 Kim - Kimmah Rhonda - AHealthierRhonda Michelle - michellejanuary3 Please check in daily with the amount of calories you burned so I can add it to our spreadsheet and…
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Quick 10 Minute Workout
A girl I know from high school was on the Dr Oz show today along with Tony Horton. They made a quick, 10 minute workout video while on the show, and she said "share away!" so here it is if anyone wants to check it out and needs something quick to fit into your busy day. She, like many of us, started very overweight and has…
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My Inspirational - I Hope - NSV.
About 11 and a half years ago I dislocated one of my kneecaps. About a month later, I dislocated my other. For 11 years, with more dislocations than I can count, several orthopedic surgeons and physical therapists told me I would never run again without surgery. I stopped playing soccer, I stopped running (not that I was…
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Who does this?!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/oct/22/mario-balotelli-house-fire-fireworks :noway:
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Bridge to 10k
Anyone else doing this? I just did Week 1 Day 1 today and it was fun :smile:
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50 pounds down!
I've now lost somewhere around 50 pounds since August 2010, so I thought I'd mark the occasion by making a pretty little thread about it :tongue: This was actually in September 2010, but still around 250 (I was converting from kgs, but it was something like that) when a friend was visiting me in Rome: And this was today…
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NSV!
I posted this on my profile last night after it happened, but thought I'd share it with everyone today: I ran out of cold medicine last night so I decided I had to go to CVS to get some more. I thought, "hmm why don't I run there?" I ran there (about a mile), got my medicine, and ran back (obviously about a mile)! I was…
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My first couple NSVs :)
A week and a half ago, I put on a shirt that I had bought that was a bit too tight. When I put it on, it fit perfectly, so I got my picture taken in it and put it on my Facebook page. I was talking with one of my college roommates, whom I still keep in touch with fairly regularly (she's super busy, so we talk once a month…
