Blog Posts
January 12, 2015
New Zealand: We Visited Hobbiton
By: Noemi Gamel Before coming to New Zealand, I was secretly ashamed that I was most looking forward to visiting the Hobbiton movie set on the North Island. My shame diffused when I saw the safety video on the Air New Zealand, which featured a Middle-Earth theme complete with hobbits, dwarves, and promotional words by…
January 5, 2015
New Zealand: Days of Old and New
By: Chris Gamel New Zealand has embraced the marriage of the two predominating cultures that make up its people: the Maori who arrived by boat approximately 1,000 years ago and the Europeans who arrived 600 years later. In order to experience both cultures, we visited a Maori village one evening and then spent the following…
January 19, 2015
Thai Cooking Class
By Noemi Gamel One of the best ways to experience a culture is through its food. While simply eating the cuisine is fun, learning to cook local foods allows you to take the cultural experience to a higher level. While in Bangkok, we took a Thai cooking class. At first, I was concerned that Tristan,…
January 26, 2015
The Temples of Angkor
By Noemi Gamel There is something about temples that draws us to them, no matter what our religious or spiritual stance. We spent two day visiting the temples of Angkor in Siem Reap, Cambodia. We liked some of them so much we visited them twice, such as Angkor Wat (the centerpiece of all the structures)…