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yes I will consider it...I'll call it 'Kiwi's Big Adventure's - the Guts and Glory'

I hada fun experience in The Algarve with a Romani gentleman. It involved gold and hash.

I have been invited to compete for a semester at Oxford University, (which is worlds removed from actually receiving a Rhodes Scholarship for two years at Oxford.)

And to think, cyclops almost made me feel guilty for that 4.0... But, a Rhodes scholar gets the grant from the Cecil Rhodes trust, and that is for two years, possibly three. So the botton line is, I can compete to get close enough to slap a Rhodes Scholar, but they'll get the last laugh.

I'm not thinking the odds are in my favor, but I may choose to try anyway. What I CAN do, though, is go to school in Europe, which I may. I'm mulling like never before.

Lash,

I have a friend who was a Rhodes Scholar. Awesome intelligent, almost scary.

However, she was a real person and lot of fun to drink with. She knows where all the great pubs are at Oxford.

I really hope I have an opportunity to bug you to ask her for good places for someone on a short visit, sglass.... But, I seriously doubt it will come to that. It's just cool to say I was "asked" to "compete." It's really more like getting mail from Ed MacMahon. (HA!) HEY!! I may have won a million dollars!!!! Pretty sure that's all the mileage I'm getting out of this.

There is a semester in Rome, though, that I can have if things work out. I am seriously considering throwing all caution to the wind and actually doing something fabulous, while I'm still ambulatory. <heh>

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Kiwi--

LOVE that thread title!! I'll be looking for it!! Don't change your mind!!

Please discard your penchant for speaking in three word posts, and tell me about this.

I'm already laughing. I'm an easy mark tonight.

1. I am not a people person.
2. I recently qualified for regionals at western pleasure riding.
3. I love to write (plays, narratives, and poems). You can check out my writing at fictionpress.com
4. I can read and write egyptian hieroglyphics.
5. I work at the petting farm of a zoo during the summer, attend college during the rest of the year.

Welcome to a2k, Teperehmi, I've missed seeing you post before...

Lash, yippee!
I can't think of any negs for going for it..
I once was asked, when I was a student, to compete in a design for a major civic square in my fair city of the time. I threw a couple of hundred hours at it, and learned after I submitted that various matters in real life had changed about that situation - they didn't need a people mover station, if I remember right, and that station had been a big part of the problem, sort of like designing something wonderful around a giant pickle. If the pickle is removed from the equation, you will not design for it.
Or giant dynosaur, which brings up another story...but not now.
On the city plaza design criterion change, I could have slipslapped my faculty advisor, the transportation expert, upside the head.
On the other hand, the effort enlarged my scope, as it were.

That might not have been the exact start of my interest in piazzas, plazas, and platz's, however you say that in German, but it notched up a natural interest a lot.

Oh, and I'd also like to read about Kiwi's travels..

sorry guys I am getting to it...just got a lot on my plate at the moment with work and travelling out of town....but I will definately get on to it
as soon as I can

Well, just know we're interested.

osso-- Cannot imagine the investment you made...and then......pickle made me laugh. You have such a rare way with words.

Hey. Where's the dys? and the Diane?

"On the road" - for a couple of days on holidays/a trip ... they said on another thread.