I'm not saying I couldn't be a little (maybe a lot) more organized, but take a few seconds to think about what you would pack into a manageable sized backpack to live and work for 5 months in a place you've never been = not so easy.
Right, moving on.
3 weeks of random-stuff-piling, 48 hours of more-specific-stuff-piling, about 3 hours of frantic last-minute-packing, and one very obnoxious prop. flight to Calgary.....I'm on my way to Accra!
So here's the deal...
While I'm in Accra, I'll be living with a Ghanaian host family and working at a local community development organization called Pro-Link. Their website is: http://prolinkghana.org/
The work on a variety of socioeconomic focused projects to support women and girls affected by HIV-Aids. Don't worry; there will be much more on this in the upcoming months!
The Canadian Organization that is facilitating my placement (with the generous support of you folks!) is called Crossroads International. Their website is: http://www.cintl.org/page.aspx?pid=1500
These are good websites if you're interested more generally in what this is all about. If you want to read a my personal take, or make a donation to support my placement, you can visit my personal page @ http://cci.akaraisin.com/Crossroaderfundraising/Julianne
OR....OF COURSE, you can continue to check out my blog. I'm not sure what kind of internet access I'll have, but I really do hope to post regular updates on my life & times in Ghana.
Thursday, 19 January 2012
Tuesday, 17 January 2012
Philippino Adventures
This post is dedicated to Kathy :)
I'm just over a year late on this one, but for the sake of closure here it goes:
We originally planned to visit Cebu and Boracay in the Philippines (two beach destinations) but by the time that part of the trip rolled around, the thought of two segmented stays of 2-3 days + air travel to go along with each was quite unappealing.
We opted to stay on the island of Luzon (where Manila is located) and travel to the North for some rice-terrace-trekking. Flying into an airport just north of Manila, we caught a bus to Baguio. The Philippines has an incredibly unique vibe compared to the rest of S.E. Asia - in some ways, it's almost like being on a different continent. There wasn't too much to see in Baguio, but we sourced out some local food before moving on to Sagada.
Sagada is an amazing little town situated in the "mountainous" region of northish, central Luzon. By Canadian standards, the landscape is more like large rolling hills, but it sure didn't feel like it sometimes when twisting around and up and down the narrow mountain roads. There were rice terraces carved into the lush, green mountainside around every other corner and we had beautiful sunny skies.
At night, it got so cold! (Our packs were full of linens and cottons and breathable things - didn't quite do the trick.)
We met a Canadian friend in Sagada, he was a resident artist originally from the Yukon. Over a wonderfully hot chocolate one evening in the local bar, we spoke about our interest in trekking through the rice terraces, and equally strong disinterest in anything overwhelmingly tourist-oriented. Our friend told us of a hiking loop that passes through 4 local villages before returning to Sagada - it sounded perfect!
A couple of days later we set out. Being the silly tourists we were, we had some snacks, a couple of water bottles and a hand-drawn map that indicated some major landmarks to help point us in the right direction.
Our adventure started with a ride on the top of a Jeepney and ended with us being lost on a Philippino mountain for 6 hours. Oh dear.
Luckily, in between those two events, we had unknowingly stumbled upon the Christmas party for all the school teachers of the mountain region. There, we met the very lovely head teacher from the next (and would be last) village on our route, Dalican. Basically, he and his family saved our lives by taking us in for the night. Dalican is a tiny village in the mountainous region of Northern Luzon, with no road access. It was such a privilege and extraordinary experience to stay there with the Head teacher's family.
Slightly traumatized, and eternally grateful, we headed back to Sagada the next day.
From there we headed farther north to the best-preserved colonial town in the country, Vigan. Vigan's old quarter is lined with cobblestone streets and grand villas built by the Spanish colonialists. It's a lovely, if not a bit kitschy, little town with a historic centre, and outer edges that are reminiscent of Hollywood's wild west - hot, dusty, and forlorn.
Our last stop in the Philippines was a brief stint in Manila before flying to HK and then home. Honestly, I think Manila was the only city on our trip that I wouldn't go back to if I did it all over again -but maybe we just didn't give it enough of a chance. The city was sprawling and dirty and crowded. Over the previous 3.5 months, we had been exposed to the entire spectrum of poverty and wealth that characterizes the region of S.E. Asia, but the poverty in Manila was still shocking. With that in mind, I'm not sure that our visit to the country would have been the same overall, without this exposure to the capital city.
Well that's the Philippines.
Our last few days in Asia were spent with good friends in HK. Hong Kong is sensory overload - it's unlike anything I've ever experienced and I LOVED it. But the biggest experience for me was just in being there. In eating and shopping and exploring the streets and markets. It's truly and incredible place, and was a great way to end the trip.
What a whirlwind of 4 months. Looking back I still can't believe the ground we covered. Amazing times with AR and MW ....and of course, all the friends we made along the way! Thanks guys. :)
I'm just over a year late on this one, but for the sake of closure here it goes:
We originally planned to visit Cebu and Boracay in the Philippines (two beach destinations) but by the time that part of the trip rolled around, the thought of two segmented stays of 2-3 days + air travel to go along with each was quite unappealing.
We opted to stay on the island of Luzon (where Manila is located) and travel to the North for some rice-terrace-trekking. Flying into an airport just north of Manila, we caught a bus to Baguio. The Philippines has an incredibly unique vibe compared to the rest of S.E. Asia - in some ways, it's almost like being on a different continent. There wasn't too much to see in Baguio, but we sourced out some local food before moving on to Sagada.
Sagada is an amazing little town situated in the "mountainous" region of northish, central Luzon. By Canadian standards, the landscape is more like large rolling hills, but it sure didn't feel like it sometimes when twisting around and up and down the narrow mountain roads. There were rice terraces carved into the lush, green mountainside around every other corner and we had beautiful sunny skies.
At night, it got so cold! (Our packs were full of linens and cottons and breathable things - didn't quite do the trick.)
We met a Canadian friend in Sagada, he was a resident artist originally from the Yukon. Over a wonderfully hot chocolate one evening in the local bar, we spoke about our interest in trekking through the rice terraces, and equally strong disinterest in anything overwhelmingly tourist-oriented. Our friend told us of a hiking loop that passes through 4 local villages before returning to Sagada - it sounded perfect!
A couple of days later we set out. Being the silly tourists we were, we had some snacks, a couple of water bottles and a hand-drawn map that indicated some major landmarks to help point us in the right direction.
Our adventure started with a ride on the top of a Jeepney and ended with us being lost on a Philippino mountain for 6 hours. Oh dear.
Luckily, in between those two events, we had unknowingly stumbled upon the Christmas party for all the school teachers of the mountain region. There, we met the very lovely head teacher from the next (and would be last) village on our route, Dalican. Basically, he and his family saved our lives by taking us in for the night. Dalican is a tiny village in the mountainous region of Northern Luzon, with no road access. It was such a privilege and extraordinary experience to stay there with the Head teacher's family.
Slightly traumatized, and eternally grateful, we headed back to Sagada the next day.
From there we headed farther north to the best-preserved colonial town in the country, Vigan. Vigan's old quarter is lined with cobblestone streets and grand villas built by the Spanish colonialists. It's a lovely, if not a bit kitschy, little town with a historic centre, and outer edges that are reminiscent of Hollywood's wild west - hot, dusty, and forlorn.
Our last stop in the Philippines was a brief stint in Manila before flying to HK and then home. Honestly, I think Manila was the only city on our trip that I wouldn't go back to if I did it all over again -but maybe we just didn't give it enough of a chance. The city was sprawling and dirty and crowded. Over the previous 3.5 months, we had been exposed to the entire spectrum of poverty and wealth that characterizes the region of S.E. Asia, but the poverty in Manila was still shocking. With that in mind, I'm not sure that our visit to the country would have been the same overall, without this exposure to the capital city.
Well that's the Philippines.
Our last few days in Asia were spent with good friends in HK. Hong Kong is sensory overload - it's unlike anything I've ever experienced and I LOVED it. But the biggest experience for me was just in being there. In eating and shopping and exploring the streets and markets. It's truly and incredible place, and was a great way to end the trip.
What a whirlwind of 4 months. Looking back I still can't believe the ground we covered. Amazing times with AR and MW ....and of course, all the friends we made along the way! Thanks guys. :)
Sunday, 27 November 2011
Coming Soon...
A long over due update on the end of my S.E. Asian adventure...
AND
I'm moving to Ghana! Details on the Next Adventure...
AND
I'm moving to Ghana! Details on the Next Adventure...
Sunday, 5 December 2010
Borneo...
is SO expensive. (like, Canada expensive) But it has definitely been worth it!
Our adventures began in Indonesian Borneo in a city called Tarakan. We were mainly just there in transit (although, it didn't really seem like there was alot to see anyway). From there, we hopped on a boat with some crazy friendly Indonesians who were travelling in a massive group for a weekend holiday in Kota Kinabalu). They shared their food and water with us and some of the guys taught Andrew how to play a local card game! We arrived on the Malaysian side and caught a bus straight up to our first stop; Semporna.
Most people visit Semporna for the world-class diving on the islands just off its coast (particularly Sipadan)..and we were no different. (actually, we only wanted to snorkel -same same!) However, we arrived to discover that we were supposed to have booked snorkelling on Sipadan 2 weeks - 1 month in advance. Oops. The island is a national nature reserve and the government limits the number of people visiting the island to 120/day (and charges a heck of an entrance fee as well!) Luckily, there had been a cancellation and 2 spots opened up for 2 days after we got there. Unfortunately, because we're crazy, we didn't have 2 extra days to wait about Semporna so in the mean time we hopped on a bus (5 hrs) to Sepilok to see Orangutans, spent the night in Sandakan and hopped on another bus back to Semporna the following day. It was a lot of bus.
Sipadan was SO worth it. Since it's a protected area, the coral and fish are incredible! The water is crystal clear and the marine life is overwhelming. We swam alongside huge sea turtles and up to schools of hundreds of fish. (There were a few bazillion itsy bitsy jellyfish as well, to which I sacrificed my arms and legs). We also saw a shark or two. It was absolutely brilliant-if anyone has the chance to go, do it!
After snorkelling we jumped on a very squishy night bus to Kota Kinabalu (K.K.) It was a 9 hr ride with the bonus of a flat tire, but we arrived safely.
The original plan in K.K was to climb Mt. Kinabalu which looms an impressive 4000 metres above sea level. We only had 3 nights in K.K before flying into the jungle to go trekking. Since it takes two days/one night to climb I decided to spare my sanity (and likely Andrew's as well) and gave the mountain climbing a miss. Andrew went up -apparently it was absolutely spectacular up there. But he had to climb to the summit and all the way back down the day before we woke up at 4:30am to catch a flight into the jungle. I did enjoy a few lovely days of coffees on the seaside, meandering through local markets, and exploring different corners of the town. I'll have to come back one day to conquer Mt. K...maybe...
Ok, following K.K we flew to Gunung Mulu National Park (no leeches to report!). It's in the Southern province of Malaysian Borneo. (Sarawak) The only way to access the park is by airplane or a boat journey up river that takes a full day. For those of you who are familiar with the series Planet Earth, the park is featured in one of the episodes, primarily for the impressive caves found in the area. We, of course, visited several of the show caves. One of them, called Deer Cave, is the 2nd largest cave passage in the world (it was the first, until a larger one was discovered in Vietnam last year). In addition to being massively impressive, it is also home to about 3 million bats (and, I should add, a lot of bat poo). Craziness! Most days in the early evening (5-6ish) you can see an incredible Bat Exodus as thousands of the creatures fly out in spiralling wave formations to hunt for food....We saw them!!!!! It was SO cool! (Don't worry, I have about 500 pictures of the little black dots in the sky to show you when I get home :)
We visited about 6 different caves and they were all very different and impressive. The park offers adventure caving too but it must be booked in advance (no way around it this time :( There were also lots of creepy crawlies. I saw the largest beetle I've ever seen in my life. (I didn't even know there was such a thing) Seriously, this thing was HUGE. It had horns. It was in our dorm. Fun times.
There were also large flying things of sorts, huge centipedes/milipedes, geckos and lizards galore, giant snails, and nasty looking spiders. Everything is so big there that sometimes I felt like a character in Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. Slightly disturbing at times, we mostly had a series of wonderful adventures.
We're now back in K.K, getting ready to fly to the Philippines tomorrow! It should be good -I can't believe we have less than 3 weeks to go!
Our adventures began in Indonesian Borneo in a city called Tarakan. We were mainly just there in transit (although, it didn't really seem like there was alot to see anyway). From there, we hopped on a boat with some crazy friendly Indonesians who were travelling in a massive group for a weekend holiday in Kota Kinabalu). They shared their food and water with us and some of the guys taught Andrew how to play a local card game! We arrived on the Malaysian side and caught a bus straight up to our first stop; Semporna.
Most people visit Semporna for the world-class diving on the islands just off its coast (particularly Sipadan)..and we were no different. (actually, we only wanted to snorkel -same same!) However, we arrived to discover that we were supposed to have booked snorkelling on Sipadan 2 weeks - 1 month in advance. Oops. The island is a national nature reserve and the government limits the number of people visiting the island to 120/day (and charges a heck of an entrance fee as well!) Luckily, there had been a cancellation and 2 spots opened up for 2 days after we got there. Unfortunately, because we're crazy, we didn't have 2 extra days to wait about Semporna so in the mean time we hopped on a bus (5 hrs) to Sepilok to see Orangutans, spent the night in Sandakan and hopped on another bus back to Semporna the following day. It was a lot of bus.
Sipadan was SO worth it. Since it's a protected area, the coral and fish are incredible! The water is crystal clear and the marine life is overwhelming. We swam alongside huge sea turtles and up to schools of hundreds of fish. (There were a few bazillion itsy bitsy jellyfish as well, to which I sacrificed my arms and legs). We also saw a shark or two. It was absolutely brilliant-if anyone has the chance to go, do it!
After snorkelling we jumped on a very squishy night bus to Kota Kinabalu (K.K.) It was a 9 hr ride with the bonus of a flat tire, but we arrived safely.
The original plan in K.K was to climb Mt. Kinabalu which looms an impressive 4000 metres above sea level. We only had 3 nights in K.K before flying into the jungle to go trekking. Since it takes two days/one night to climb I decided to spare my sanity (and likely Andrew's as well) and gave the mountain climbing a miss. Andrew went up -apparently it was absolutely spectacular up there. But he had to climb to the summit and all the way back down the day before we woke up at 4:30am to catch a flight into the jungle. I did enjoy a few lovely days of coffees on the seaside, meandering through local markets, and exploring different corners of the town. I'll have to come back one day to conquer Mt. K...maybe...
Ok, following K.K we flew to Gunung Mulu National Park (no leeches to report!). It's in the Southern province of Malaysian Borneo. (Sarawak) The only way to access the park is by airplane or a boat journey up river that takes a full day. For those of you who are familiar with the series Planet Earth, the park is featured in one of the episodes, primarily for the impressive caves found in the area. We, of course, visited several of the show caves. One of them, called Deer Cave, is the 2nd largest cave passage in the world (it was the first, until a larger one was discovered in Vietnam last year). In addition to being massively impressive, it is also home to about 3 million bats (and, I should add, a lot of bat poo). Craziness! Most days in the early evening (5-6ish) you can see an incredible Bat Exodus as thousands of the creatures fly out in spiralling wave formations to hunt for food....We saw them!!!!! It was SO cool! (Don't worry, I have about 500 pictures of the little black dots in the sky to show you when I get home :)
We visited about 6 different caves and they were all very different and impressive. The park offers adventure caving too but it must be booked in advance (no way around it this time :( There were also lots of creepy crawlies. I saw the largest beetle I've ever seen in my life. (I didn't even know there was such a thing) Seriously, this thing was HUGE. It had horns. It was in our dorm. Fun times.
There were also large flying things of sorts, huge centipedes/milipedes, geckos and lizards galore, giant snails, and nasty looking spiders. Everything is so big there that sometimes I felt like a character in Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. Slightly disturbing at times, we mostly had a series of wonderful adventures.
We're now back in K.K, getting ready to fly to the Philippines tomorrow! It should be good -I can't believe we have less than 3 weeks to go!
Thursday, 2 December 2010
Argh
I just spent a good 30 minutes writing a lovely update for you lovely people on our Borneo adventures....and then Blogspot ate it. :( Actually, it just booted me out and didn't save anything. So after considering rewriting and then considering sleeping...I've decided on sleeping. It's okay though -it just means it'll be that much better when I actually write the post. We have a flight into the Malaysian jungle at 6am tomorrow. I hope there aren't leeches.
Wednesday, 24 November 2010
I Went Surfing and Survived Lah!!!
After our not-so-sunny days on the islands of Southern Thailand, we had to divert our plans due to some pretty terrible flooding -the worst in 10 years. We ended up flying from Phuket to Kuala Lumpur and so begins our Malayzing experience (that was Andrew's contribution).
KL was a pretty cool city. We spent most of our time there in malls. Yep, regular, unexciting shopping malls. I don't really know why. Anyway, we did go up the Petronas towers (which happen to loom over a mall....this may have had something to do with it) which are something like the 3rd tallest buildings in the world. AND explore the city quite extensively on foot. This was interspersed of course with the eating of delicious food and the buying of pretty things. :)
After KL, we ventured about 150km south to the UNESCO World Heritage town of Melaka which was a pretty cool place to wander and hang out....After KL, came Singapore. They speak singlish there, just put lah at the end of sentences. It was great to visit Jon and get some well needed R&R. There weren't all that many things to see in Singapore ....but we did take part in the mandatory drinking of a Singapore Sling at Raffles hotel, and had a pretty decent night out.
After Singapore, May left us :( But she is now in China visiting the Terracotta Army which I guess is pretty cool.
Andrew and I (once again) detoured from our original plans for Indonesia because of the volcano eruption and recent earthquake. We made the sacrifice and flew directly to Bali, with our new plans including Bali, the Gili Islands and Lombok.
I went surfing in Bali! Ha, I only stood up 3.5 times in the entire lesson but I'm going to call it surfing anyway. It was really really fun! Also, we stayed in a very very sketchy place and there were bed bugs and it was not pleasant. Anyway, after surfing in Kuta we went to Toya Bungkah to climb a volcano. It almost killed me, but we woke up at 4 am and hiked up in time for sunrise which was absolutely stunning. It was probably worth it. Ha!
Following our volcano trek, we made our way to the Gilis (Gili Trawangan and Gili Air specifically). These are tiny, car-free islands between Bali and Lombok. We had a few good days of leisurely bike riding, lazy afternoons on the beach, and some pretty awesome snorkelling...with turtles!!!!
We are now in Lombok and you are caught up!!! Tomorrow we fly to Tarakan, before crossing the border into Malaysia.
We've been travelling for 83 days. 29 left to go. We're tired and smelly (well, not that smelly)....but we're having fun, damn it!
That's all for now.x
KL was a pretty cool city. We spent most of our time there in malls. Yep, regular, unexciting shopping malls. I don't really know why. Anyway, we did go up the Petronas towers (which happen to loom over a mall....this may have had something to do with it) which are something like the 3rd tallest buildings in the world. AND explore the city quite extensively on foot. This was interspersed of course with the eating of delicious food and the buying of pretty things. :)
After KL, we ventured about 150km south to the UNESCO World Heritage town of Melaka which was a pretty cool place to wander and hang out....After KL, came Singapore. They speak singlish there, just put lah at the end of sentences. It was great to visit Jon and get some well needed R&R. There weren't all that many things to see in Singapore ....but we did take part in the mandatory drinking of a Singapore Sling at Raffles hotel, and had a pretty decent night out.
After Singapore, May left us :( But she is now in China visiting the Terracotta Army which I guess is pretty cool.
Andrew and I (once again) detoured from our original plans for Indonesia because of the volcano eruption and recent earthquake. We made the sacrifice and flew directly to Bali, with our new plans including Bali, the Gili Islands and Lombok.
I went surfing in Bali! Ha, I only stood up 3.5 times in the entire lesson but I'm going to call it surfing anyway. It was really really fun! Also, we stayed in a very very sketchy place and there were bed bugs and it was not pleasant. Anyway, after surfing in Kuta we went to Toya Bungkah to climb a volcano. It almost killed me, but we woke up at 4 am and hiked up in time for sunrise which was absolutely stunning. It was probably worth it. Ha!
Following our volcano trek, we made our way to the Gilis (Gili Trawangan and Gili Air specifically). These are tiny, car-free islands between Bali and Lombok. We had a few good days of leisurely bike riding, lazy afternoons on the beach, and some pretty awesome snorkelling...with turtles!!!!
We are now in Lombok and you are caught up!!! Tomorrow we fly to Tarakan, before crossing the border into Malaysia.
We've been travelling for 83 days. 29 left to go. We're tired and smelly (well, not that smelly)....but we're having fun, damn it!
That's all for now.x
Monday, 1 November 2010
La Cambodge...and forward on to Thailand
A few days ago marked our halfway point! Wooohooo. I can't believe we're already there; although, at the same time I feel like I've been travelling for ages...
Anyway, in Cambodia we spent 4 or 5 days in Phnom Penh and then moved up to Siem Reap (Angkor Wat) and onto Battambang before crossing into Thailand. I mentioned the poverty in Cambodia in my last post--I think it was a lot more blatant there than the other places we've been. I suppose I shouldn't be shocked since the whole society was basically decimated through the overspill of the Vietnam war + the onslaught of the Khmer rouge regime. The place is full of contrast: immensely rich history of the Angkor (the temples were AMAZING), the nauseating story of the civil war, incredibly friendly and happy people, extreme poverty -it was actually overwhelming (if you can't tell by the mood of my last check in). We visited the killing fields and S-21 prison where over 20,000 people were brutally tortured and massacred under the Khmer Rouge. Contrary to the more reserved style of memorial we are used too, these places were fairly nauseating with pieces of human bone and clothing still marking the sites of mass graves and uncensored photographs of the regimes' victims. The Khmer Rouge targeted anyone who appeared/was rummored to educated in any way -and it only took place in the 70s.
On a more enjoyable note, we also visited the national museum and royal palace in Phnom Penh and a Silk farm later in Siem Reap. Angkor Wat was basically hours of exploring ruins and temples (think Tomb Raider) and they have DELICIOUS street food everywhere we went in Cambodia.
On our way out, back into Thailand, there was quite a bit of flooding . This led to a few long bus journeys, a stretch of 20 odd people crammed into one minibus (with luggage) and ultimately a random car with 6 people for the 2 hour drive to the border.
After revisiting Bangkok, we headed south to the islands on the Eastern Gulf. Its pretty stormy (so not as good as it sounds)...BUT we did have an awesome day of snorkelling on Koh Tao. I got a sun burn. I look like a lobster.
Moving on, we are now stranded on Koh Phangan. Yep, no boats. The waves are too big and all the ferries have been cancelled. I guess there are worse things than being stranded on a tropical island off the coast of Thailand -even if its raining :) I think it is safe to add this to the list of things that would never happen back in Canada.
Anyway, in Cambodia we spent 4 or 5 days in Phnom Penh and then moved up to Siem Reap (Angkor Wat) and onto Battambang before crossing into Thailand. I mentioned the poverty in Cambodia in my last post--I think it was a lot more blatant there than the other places we've been. I suppose I shouldn't be shocked since the whole society was basically decimated through the overspill of the Vietnam war + the onslaught of the Khmer rouge regime. The place is full of contrast: immensely rich history of the Angkor (the temples were AMAZING), the nauseating story of the civil war, incredibly friendly and happy people, extreme poverty -it was actually overwhelming (if you can't tell by the mood of my last check in). We visited the killing fields and S-21 prison where over 20,000 people were brutally tortured and massacred under the Khmer Rouge. Contrary to the more reserved style of memorial we are used too, these places were fairly nauseating with pieces of human bone and clothing still marking the sites of mass graves and uncensored photographs of the regimes' victims. The Khmer Rouge targeted anyone who appeared/was rummored to educated in any way -and it only took place in the 70s.
On a more enjoyable note, we also visited the national museum and royal palace in Phnom Penh and a Silk farm later in Siem Reap. Angkor Wat was basically hours of exploring ruins and temples (think Tomb Raider) and they have DELICIOUS street food everywhere we went in Cambodia.
On our way out, back into Thailand, there was quite a bit of flooding . This led to a few long bus journeys, a stretch of 20 odd people crammed into one minibus (with luggage) and ultimately a random car with 6 people for the 2 hour drive to the border.
After revisiting Bangkok, we headed south to the islands on the Eastern Gulf. Its pretty stormy (so not as good as it sounds)...BUT we did have an awesome day of snorkelling on Koh Tao. I got a sun burn. I look like a lobster.
Moving on, we are now stranded on Koh Phangan. Yep, no boats. The waves are too big and all the ferries have been cancelled. I guess there are worse things than being stranded on a tropical island off the coast of Thailand -even if its raining :) I think it is safe to add this to the list of things that would never happen back in Canada.
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