As you can see, we are no longer touring the USA...in fact we finished the FYI Tour back on the 29th January and since then have been slowly making our way back to Australia (in a roundabout kind of way!). Currently we are in Cairo, and it is our final day here in Egypt before we travel to Europe for a few weeks, then on to Singapore, KL, Bali, then back home. To wrap things up, on behalf of both of us, we just wanted to say an official farewell and a big thanky...

Today we decided to take a trip down to Loma Linda/Riverside, CA to have Sabbath there and have a bit of a look around Loma Linda University and La Sierra University as we didn't have time during our scheduled tour earlier in the week. It was well worth making the trip down, because we bumped into a few other (ex) Avondale students while we were there. We saw Summer Hayton and Alysse Robison, and also happened to be there the same weekend Monique Long was visiti...

Unfortunately all good things must come to an end...and today marks our last day for the 2009/2010 FYI USA Tour *sigh*. Our schedule today was two schools in the San Diego area: Escondido Academy up first followed by San Diego Academy. Once we were done with the fairs it was our last chance as recruiters to enjoy a meal together before we all went our separate ways. Dianne from La Sierra University hosted lunch this time at a sweet Mexican Restaurant in Old Town,...

This morning we left Palm Springs early to get down to Calexico for our fair today. The school is located right across the road from the border separating California and Mexico, and due to the its location, the entire school predominantly speaks Spanish. I think this made our Australian accents a little difficult to grasp at times, but we had a fun time there and had some good interest. Before we left Calexico we planned to hop across the border to Mexicali with...

Once we had finished our fair in Redlands yesterday, we then had a 150km drive west across LA to Newbury Park for our fair there this morning. 150kms doesn't seem far, but try doing it during peak period and it's going to take a LOT longer than it should...and it did. Not a fan of LA traffic. Today we had three fairs including the first at Newbury Park, followed by Glendale Academy hosting San Fernando Valley Academy (Will Gile's school) and then San Gabriel Aca...