{"id":87,"date":"2003-11-08T18:27:29","date_gmt":"2003-11-08T18:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.com\/?p=87"},"modified":"2003-11-08T18:27:29","modified_gmt":"2003-11-08T18:27:29","slug":"the_vagabond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=87","title":{"rendered":"The Vagabond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just got back home from a CVA project and I&#8217;ll be heading out of the house again soon. Will be going clubbing tonight with some friends. First time since I&#8217;ve been in Sydney that I&#8217;m going, and it&#8217;ll probably be the last too.<br \/>\nI went to Middle Head today and as usual was pulling out weeds. Today the weed I was pulling out was called Wondering Jew. It&#8217;s a creeper which is originally from South America. Anyway, cleared bagfuls of those. So tired now. Thankfully I managed to come home to have a warm shower to soothe those muscles. This is probably my last project with the Conservation Volunteers of Australia. Feel a little sad.<br \/>\nLast night, I went for this dinner which was organised by the Teaching &#038; Learning Literacy department of the UTS Education Faculty for international students. We had to pay $25 each. However, the food at the Thai restaurant was horrible. I wasted my money and not to mention my calories last night!<br \/>\nMany Japanese students were there. And it&#8217;s most bizarre how they were all dressed to the nines for a very casual and informal dinner. Gosh, I felt like a vagabond or some tramp compared to them. The girls were all decked in cocktail dresses, had their hair styled and the guys were dressed in nice shirts.<br \/>\nOne Japanese friend of mine bought a cheongsam the day before specially for this dinner. Goodness.<br \/>\nMe being the lazy person when it comes to all these dressing up can never be bothered to go to such extents for such a informal dinner. It&#8217;s not like I was going to the Ritz Carlton!<br \/>\nAnyway, it&#8217;s all very scary &#8211; don&#8217;t tell me I&#8217;ll have to stock up on a whole lot of clothes if I go to Japan to teach??? Argh!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just got back home from a CVA project and I&#8217;ll be heading out of the house again soon. Will be going clubbing tonight with some friends. First time since I&#8217;ve been in Sydney that I&#8217;m going, and it&#8217;ll probably be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=87\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-days-of-my-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}