tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23753762582175600462012-01-29T09:33:05.716-08:00"Traveler, there are no roads. Roads are made by walking." -Spanish proverbPatrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06932192616940236999noreply@blogger.comBlogger421100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2375376258217560046.post-6339940461263358762010-02-10T18:55:00.000-08:002010-02-10T18:56:56.633-08:00

Stay the course Obama!

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Need more flexibility in the monetary regime. Any innovative ideas beyond IMF intervention?

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Found this entry to be pretty clear cut as to basic policy position on some of the big issues in US-China relations...

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Looking back over the past year, I've had the chance to meet some terrific people and travel to some neat places. But in all the travels, it was never the sites that made trips great, but the people I spent them with.When I think of my trip to Rome last winter, my strongest memories aren't of the Colosseum or the Vatican, but of dinner with Dani and her parents. Then in Florence the next day,

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It's been a bit different being back at Mizzou, but it's been nice catching up with old friends and making new ones. Here are a few pictures of nights out and some of the home football games...Day game vs. Buffalo.With Emily, Kasey, and Andrew at Shiloh.With Andrew and Cragin at Fieldhouse.With Camille, Sally, Andrew, and Kasey at the Reactor tailgate.With Clara, Andrew, and Kasey at Reactor

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With Tom and Peter at the Telstra headquarters in Sydney. Much thanks to Tom for hosting Peter and I. It was truly a once-in-a-lifetime experience.On the harbour in Sydney with Pete.A 'Wicked' production in Melbourne.With Nick, Carine, Pete, and Paul on Chapel Street in Melbourne.The Wallabies of Australia take on the All Blacks of New Zealand at the Bledisloe Cup in Sydney.The HAKKA live!

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The home of many fond memories...Pat with all his cutest cousins.Kathy is awarded a medal for having named the country of nearly every flag at the international celebration.Candice and Ken share a meaningful gift with Grammy from the family.Grammy enjoys a gift from Pat.The late night crowd in the lounge.With Luke, Kris, Elizabeth, and Courtney at the Schooner Bar.With Marie.Cabo.Sisters and

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The whole crew.Hartley's, O'Brien's, and Lamming's.Molly, Kelsey, and Gracie outside the clubhouse.Congratulations Elizabeth and Kris!Tossing the bouquet...

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With Guilia and David.With Bertrand and Ruth in the Gardens of the Royal Palace.With Sandy, Sandra, and Maribel in front of the Oso y Madroño in Sol!Final visit to El Junco, a jazz club in Alonso Martinez.Goodbye to El Tigre, a constantly crowded Spanish bar.With Argentine friends Elisa, Valentina, and Jorge... en la plaza al pie de la Calle Cava Baja.With Argentine friends Vanina and Matias, in

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Fiesta en Donoso Cortez 31.¡Se vuelven Katerina y Astrid!Hah! Enjoying the Erasmus life.Mi familia Italiana!North Americans unite! (yes, that includes Mexico...!)With Florence and Rosalía.Fine French dining. Chin chin!¡¡¡Viva Argentina!!! With Valentina and Elisa.Another crazy Argentine night.Madrid's biggest festival, San Isidro.One of many San Isidro concerts.

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Il Canal Grande.La Basilica di San Marco.The canals of Venice.Tired from walking...?

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Views from Murren.Me and Mom.With Dad hiking (down the mountain of course!).And this would hiking up the mountain. Somehow I got the bad end of the deal ;)Cheese in Switzerland.Paragliding over the Swiss Alps.

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Artowrk in the AlhambraOverlooking the Alhambra.Walking the streets of Granada.Amigos :)

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Fiesta en Madrid with Amaia, and Nadia.Feliz cumple Dani!(Yet another ;) Erasmus night.With friends Ruth, Saral, and Bertrand from class.¡Guapetones!

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Con Andrea e Andrea in NapoliNaples with Andrea.The streets of Naples.On the sea with Andrea, Vincenzo, and Andrea.Pizza in Naples.Abuelo, Papá, Patrick!Meet the candidates.The Mediterranean.

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In front of the Trevi Fountain with Micol, Dani, and Valerio.Il ColoseoThe Pantheon.Noche vieja en Roma. Feliz año nuevo!Street music in Trastevere.Il Vaticano.At the Vatican Museum.In the Vatican Museum.In the Vatican Museum.The Sistine chapel. Only in Italy do you see a sea of flashes in the only part of a museum where photos are prhibited. Hah!To do it justice...Michelangelo's famous, The

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Hello Florence! (Y Dani, gracias por llamarle a Abdu tantas veces, jaja! Y aun no podía dormir! Ay, el día que te calles más que 5 minutos...)Unbelievable.With Abdu, Daniela, and Micol.Ponte Vecchio (Old Bridge). The only one left of its kind in Florence.Wow.

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Enjoying a good German beer with a good German friend. What a treat!What's left of the Berlin Wall and what it represented.Jewish Memorial sight. Truly provoking.Only so much to do in Potsdam...At the sight of the Potsdam Conference.

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First snow of the year, and right in time for Christmas! Welcome to Amsterdam.Might be a church, likely the only one.With Dirk in Utrecht.Utrecht.Fairwell Holland.

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Manekin Pis (aka Pissing Pete ;).Why not.And just when you thought it couldn't get any better. Hah!The Grand Place. I love it here.And this is why! Merry Christmas, Pat.Might also explain why Belgians never study.

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While ice rains down in St. Louis....Stuck with 2 Americans ;) in Barcelona.In Gaudi Park.

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The past couple months have been quite busy with travels. I would have liked to return to the States for a short stay over the winter holidays to see the family and catch up with friends (and sorry for those of you I had promised to see!), but flight prices were outrageous, so I set off around Europe instead. And while spending Christmas alone (or rather with another traveler) was a bit strange

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With Jen and John outside St. Paul's Cathedral.With Charlie and Maggie in Picadilly Circus wearing our new hats!With Charlie outside of Big Ben.Wicked in London!Wicked stage!In front of the Tower of London BridgeWith John in front of the Tower of London.On the HMS Belfast.Captain O'Brien.John and Pat aboard the HMS Belfast.A taste of London.With Charlie in the British Museum.The Rosetta Stone.

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On the Seine with Cassidy.Americans Anna and Cassidy with our couch surfing hosts Fred and Philippe along with François, who invited us over for some French cooking!Melting cheese to add to potatos and ham.Hall of Mirrors, Palace of Versailles.Best crepes in town.Timed picture, not quite in time...Fairwell Paris.

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From the top of the Notre Dame.Ah, Paris!"Baila Morena" from the Sacré-Coure. See it live on the video feed below..."¡Baila Morena!"Street music done right!The Sacré-Coure.The Louvre.The Winged Victory of Samothrace, also called the Nike of Samothrace, is a 3rd century B.C. marble sculpture of the Greek goddess Nike (Victory). Since 1884, it has been prominently displayed at the Louvre and is

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November was a busy month. Classes are in full swing, the work schedule has filled up a bit, and I have finally done some real traveling. I won't bore you with the details of classes or work, as most responses haven't been too keen on either of those, but there is plenty to share about travels!PARIS:With a few trips to cities around Madrid under my belt and a bit of a friend network here in

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In the words of my friend who posted the picture..."Pat being a dork." A couple weekends ago a my friend, Anna, and I caught a bus to El Escorial and its neighboring Valley of the Fallen. The town is just 30 miles northwest of Madrid and well worth the trip. Here are a couple photos and some history on the sites...In the front courtyard of the Monestario in El Escorial. (Didn't take this one

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I've now been in Madrid over a month and have loved it! The language is starting to come easier now speaking and I am able to understand most Spaniards. I definately have a long way to go but I feel comfortable in everyday conversation now.Classes began last week, so I have been sitting in on quite a few business and political science courses to try to find interesting professors. After two

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In the same weekend I ventured to El Escorial, I took a trip to Toledo, another city just outside of Madrid. Here are a few photos...Left to Right: Patrick, Cervantes, SueToledo!An art gallery inside of the Cathedral of Toledo. The paintings along the left and rand-hand side walls were done by El Greco, who was commissioned to paint the 12 disciples. It is said that El Greco chose the faces

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This weekend I took a day trip to Segovia with a couple friends. After a third straigh day of 4 hours sleep, my friend Charlie comes beaming into my room at 9am to tell me its time to go. So we catch a 10 o'clock train for Segovia and 2 hours later find ourselves looking at (and later climbing) a Roman aquaduct, the Alcázar of Segovia, and the biggest cathedral in town. A view of the Cathedral

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Outside the Royal Palace a man plays the accordion!

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I love weekends in Madrid. Aside from a great nightlife, the days can be spent touring some of the world's most renown works of art for free. Last weekend I visited the Reina Sofía Art Museum, which boasts 2 floors of modern art including Picasso's, Guernica, and Dalí's, The Great Masturbator. The museum completes Madrid's so-called Golden Triangle of Art, which consists of the city's three

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I made it to the Royal Palace last week, which ranks among the top in the world. Some say that only the Royal Palaces of Vienna and Versailles top that of Madrid.For a little history (complements Wikipedia)...The site of the palace dates from a 10th-century fortress, called mayrit, constructed as an outpost by Mohammed I, Emir of Córdoba and inherited after 1036 by the independent Moorish

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With no class last week I had a chance to visit several famous sites in Madrid. The first was the Prado Museum (Museo del Prado), which is renowned as being the largest art gallery in the world. It houses more than 8,600 paintings, of which they exhibit less than 2,000 because of lack of space available. It has the world's finest collections of works by Spain's Diego Velázquez and Francisco

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Midnight in Madrid in Plaza Santa Ana.With two of the women who live in the same flat as me. I have now been in Madrid for nearly 2 weeks and have enjoyed my time here. I am living near the Argüelles metro station, which is central to the city and near the univeristy, with 9 other flat mates. They are an interesting bunch. Most of them are Spaniards, which is good, but they are considerably

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The last stop in the Asian adventure was Tokyo for a few days of tourism. I had the chance to see my Uncle Ken, who made the trip all the way up from the base of Mt. Fuji, where he serves as a colonel in the Marines, to visit. It was great to catch up and learn more about his experience in Japan. During the other three days nine of us toured the city, seeing the the Tokyo tour along the way

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Our last destination in China was Hong Kong. Talk about a change of pace. The skyline was awesome and the feel of the city was lively. It was again mostly tourism although we did visit the US Consulate one of the days, which I found quite interesting. The man who spoke with our group was born and raised in Hawaii before living in Beijing for 4 years and Shanghai for 9 years only to move to

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Downtown Chengdu. The tricycle taxis were everywhere!My friend Wen wen (Dawn) downtown. Dawn and I. With the kids of one of the guards on Children's Day. From what I understand it is celebrated on June 1 every year for kids under 12.Friends Yang Ying and Shen Di on a double decker bus.Yang Ying extatic about the duck neck she just bought. How could I say no to spicy chunks of a duck's neck,

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Chengdu was the third city we visited. It has a population of 11 million and it is located in the Sichuan Province. After so much tourism in Beijing and Shanghai, it was nice to finally get to interact with Chinese people in Chengdu. There much anticipation as several Chinese people in Beijing and Shanghai informed us that Sichuan is famous for its spicy food and beautiful women (we weren’t

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I’ve been bad about sharing the rest of my experience in China, but better late than never! Shanghai was the most impressive of the four cities we visited in terms of the development. Here’s a look at the city: One of the many cool skyscrapers. Driving through the city I must have saw 30 skyscrapers under construction within 30 minutes. And architects come from around the world to showcase

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I just got back from a month-long tour and wanted to share some of my experiences with you. To briefly summarize the trip, I was part of a group of 17 students from Mizzou along with a bilingual professor of finance. We visited Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu (Sichuan Province), and Hong Kong. After the China tour several of us also stopped in Tokyo for 4 days where I had the chance to see my Uncle

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Hello all!I hope to use this new blog space to share a little bit about what's going on in my life...travels, thoughts, and so on. I am shooting for semiregular posts with notes, pictures, videos, etc. Please reciprocate by way of comment or email as I want to stay up to date with your lives as well!Cheers,Pat

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