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		<title>The Big Move</title>
		<link>http://holesinmyrainbows.wordpress.com/2009/09/04/the-big-move/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 23:53:31 +0000</pubDate>
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Hello loyal readers! Yesterday I moved across the world, from Amsterdam back to California, and I decided that I&#8217;d move the location of my blog too. I&#8217;m saying goodbye to WordPress and starting up with Blogger. You can read all about what&#8217;s coming next for me at http://holesinmyrainbows.blogspot.com.
This location will stay right where it is, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=holesinmyrainbows.wordpress.com&blog=3811855&post=423&subd=holesinmyrainbows&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ANOTHER little engine that couldn&#8217;t</title>
		<link>http://holesinmyrainbows.wordpress.com/2009/08/29/another-little-engine-that-couldnt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 11:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shannon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Keep Calm and Carry On]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
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Ah, Europe! The land of convenient and affordable train travel! Where you can hop on any locomotive and ride that rail from country to country and see everything you&#8217;ve ever dreamed of with total ease, freedom and, of course, speed.
This, at least, is what they tell you.
Those of you who have read my previous post [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=holesinmyrainbows.wordpress.com&blog=3811855&post=414&subd=holesinmyrainbows&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Extreme Au Pair Challenge 2009</title>
		<link>http://holesinmyrainbows.wordpress.com/2009/08/26/the-extreme-au-pair-challenge-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:49:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shannon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Amsterdam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Keep Calm and Carry On]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Au Pair]]></category>
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Ladies and gentlemen, my time as an au pair has officially come to an end. There have been ups and downs, blue skies and thunder storms, laughing fits and crying fits. (I&#8217;m referring to the children, of course.) Overall it&#8217;s been a truly great experience, but I can definitely say that I&#8217;ve tested my limits [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=holesinmyrainbows.wordpress.com&blog=3811855&post=408&subd=holesinmyrainbows&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">We love winter.</media:title>
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		<title>What I learned on my summer vacation. Part 2.</title>
		<link>http://holesinmyrainbows.wordpress.com/2009/07/29/what-i-learned-on-my-summer-vacation-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:05:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shannon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Tangier we took an old, un-airconditioned bus to Chefchaouen, a small town in the Rif mountains. We slept on colorful beds on the roof of our hostel in the medina. The loud, melodic 5 am prayer woke us with a start and lulled us back to sleep. We wandered through the maze of blue-painted [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=holesinmyrainbows.wordpress.com&blog=3811855&post=398&subd=holesinmyrainbows&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What I learned on my summer vacation. Part 1.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 10:46:22 +0000</pubDate>
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Hi, I&#8217;m Shannon, and I&#8217;m a chronic worrier. Sometimes I think it must be in my blood, that old doubts constantly circulate in my veins until they are recycled and become new, fresh fears. Travel, not surprisingly, can exacerbate this tendency. Going new places and doing new things, while exhilarating, also comes with countless new [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=holesinmyrainbows.wordpress.com&blog=3811855&post=389&subd=holesinmyrainbows&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>5 Tips for the Aspiring Au Pair</title>
		<link>http://holesinmyrainbows.wordpress.com/2009/07/28/5-tips-for-the-aspiring-au-pair/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:41:12 +0000</pubDate>
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Here&#8217;s a little article I wrote for Matador, an independent online travel magazine. A lot of fellow au pairs I&#8217;ve met in Amsterdam didn&#8217;t suffiently prepare for a job with a family, and found themselves in a situation they didn&#8217;t realize they&#8217;d signed up for. 5 Tips for the Aspiring Au Pair offers some advice [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=holesinmyrainbows.wordpress.com&blog=3811855&post=383&subd=holesinmyrainbows&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Late Work</title>
		<link>http://holesinmyrainbows.wordpress.com/2009/07/07/late-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:37:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shannon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Amsterdam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Keep Calm and Carry On]]></category>
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It’s a Tuesday afternoon in July. I’m sitting on the waterside terrace of the café de Jaren near my home in Amsterdam, drinking bitter coffee and reading A Farewell to Arms. After spending the morning letting the rain lull me in and out of sleep, I brought my computer out with me because I need [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=holesinmyrainbows.wordpress.com&blog=3811855&post=374&subd=holesinmyrainbows&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">de muziek boot</media:title>
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		<title>It&#8217;s raining metaphors</title>
		<link>http://holesinmyrainbows.wordpress.com/2009/05/29/its-raining-metaphors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 19:57:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shannon</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
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My original intention for this post was to compare life to the unpredictable nature of weather.
Since Spring has arrived, the weather in Amsterdam has become much more fickle and I find I can no longer make a semi-accurate forecast by simply reading the sky when I wake up. This usually worked for me in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=holesinmyrainbows.wordpress.com&blog=3811855&post=363&subd=holesinmyrainbows&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How can I put this&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://holesinmyrainbows.wordpress.com/2009/04/15/how-can-i-put-this/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:46:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shannon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Madrid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spain]]></category>

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Sitting in Retiro Park on my last afternoon in Madrid, all I could think about was how I wouldn’t be able to write about the city in any way that does it justice, how I wouldn’t be able to avoid a string of cliché adjectives so overused they’ve lost meaning, so I simply wouldn’t bother.
But [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=holesinmyrainbows.wordpress.com&blog=3811855&post=355&subd=holesinmyrainbows&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>View from the Top</title>
		<link>http://holesinmyrainbows.wordpress.com/2009/04/10/view-from-the-top/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 07:24:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shannon</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alps]]></category>
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They say dreams are more vivid at high altitudes.
To me that sounds like a load of crap, but my subconscious confirmed it recently when I spent a week in the Swiss Alps. After seven months living in the center of a major European city and traveling once a month to other major European cities, I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=holesinmyrainbows.wordpress.com&blog=3811855&post=344&subd=holesinmyrainbows&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">the view from our chalet</media:title>
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