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About Harry Brake

Employee of Woodbridge High School, Library Media Specialist, Media crazy! :)

What happens when you’re new to a country? Really? (Maybe!)

Sorry for the title, but it will work itself out in the details below, promise! As being Thursday August 2nd, so many events have happened, so many!  All memorable! Strange too – hail the other day the size of dimes … Continue reading

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2012 start…

Despite the previous incident, accidents, and “fogetcidents” (love that Brakism) – Mexico City is AWESOME.  Arriving and quite exhausted, and despite my key breaking in the lock and me being ransomed by a LOCK and KEY in my apartment, lol, … Continue reading

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…mayhem prevails?

…so as we walk into a very sterile and quiet white room, I sit down at a desk with two secretaries, explain my situation with the now worn out copy of my Fm3 – lol, an they make a call.  Within … Continue reading

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Mayhem across North America and spreading…:)

The pictures that will accompany the blogs the last few posts as well as to this post are AMAZING.  I will do that in a few days to keep up with everything! Being in Delaware was for this trip, more … Continue reading

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Sneaking into an empty shower, breaking glass, rainy nights, truck stop guru…

..what is next!  🙂  It will make a great blog when I return, lol….:)  So cloooooose!

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“Roughing It”

After Outward Bound and a week of orientation in Vera Cruz, I think “roughing it” has not been a big deal…LOL…   This is my route I took leaving yesterday at 4:15 AM: How do you get to Mexico City … Continue reading

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Items for SALE! In MEXICO!

Martinez – Kang Moving Sale!!! We’re moving!!! and we need your help getting rid of our stuff and funding our flight tickets!! Please come by on Saturday, August 4, 2012 between 8 a.m. – 8 p.m. Everything must go!!! Fridge, … Continue reading

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Departures…Mom! FaFa! Alison! Tuyet! My Cousins! Mrs Duryea! Tammy! Chris! Pierre! The Fields! Doakes! The Betts! Watershed Conservancy!Mrs Cox-Cannon!

I do not even like the word…:)  This mini update is being written in Starbucks about 10 minutes from Tennessee, as I begin to enter “The Volunteer State!” I had so many mixed emotions leaving, I LOVED seeing those who … Continue reading

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Single or full to the brim? :)

I have realized that the best gift I have received was that of being single – I have been THE luckiest guy in the world to see the girls and boys turn into young men and women. I could have … Continue reading

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Revelations…and Game Changers…

Going into Saturday was well, a little scary knowing I had some expectations of ridding myself of some material possessions, and counting on this being the “fuel” for my excursion across the U.S. and through Mexico,   🙂   Go … Continue reading

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