Sentences with phrase «short work trips»

You can experience life in other countries with permanent positions abroad, overseas projects or short work trips.

Weekend getaways and short work trips are even more spartan.

It was a short work trip so I didn't pack much or check my suitcase.

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It's now 2017 — you work in coffee shops, your smartphone controls your home and car, and your business trips are short, two - day jaunts with a bit of leisure thrown in.

Speaking of short trips with friends and partners having different hobbies, Sir Paul Coleridge said that was fine: «there are many, many couples who go away for weekends with their mates and it works perfectly well as long as everybody's open and everybody knows what's going on.»

While World Vision does not have volunteer projects such as the ones you describe, we do help to arrange short trips to take selected donors, pastors, and advocates to see our work in the field and to learn more about issues of poverty and injustice.

«Then, on the same trip, St. Patrick's Day, I put on green shorts and headed out into the ocean,» she said, as Judge continued to work on his tackle.

To get a feel for what works and what doesn't when you're on the road and away from home, you might try leading up to a big trip with some short day trips or weekend getaways.

Developing grit — that quality of pushing through obstacles as we pursue something about which we're passionate — depends on the child working hard to accomplish her own goals, whether that's mastering a jump shot, short story, recipe or camping trip.

During our short hiatus we focused on family and work, took a week - long trip to Vegas, and (of course) squeezed in a few new afternoon tea places to share.

As I told you, I took some days off from work for a short trip to the Hamptons Beach, Long Island.

I have a mall trip planned next week, so I think I'll hit up NY&C o. I used to go there all the time for work pants because they had the «short» pants actually available in stores, but I eventually gave up because every style I liked never had them in my height.

Buy linen shorts from Myntra, and look fashionable when you are travelling for work or going on a safari trip with your family.

It was a short trip so other than working in the salon I had hardly any time to myself.

I just came back from a short trip to Switzerland and Paris for work, where I got to spend time with some of the most chic people ever.

I typically stick to crops and leggings when working out but as the weather warms up these shorts would be perfect for hiking and a trip to the beach.

Just to give you a short update, I am working on different super exciting projects and furthermore slowly getting really super nervous about my trip to Bali.

This year has been really busy for both of us at work that we couldn't take a vacation, so these short trips really help us to escape from the routine.

When I'm not working I also love riding my motorbikes or going off for short trips in my van!

It was a short round - trip commute for American actress Dori Brenner from her Long Island home to her Manhattan stage work.

Although the series lives on in shorter form, the final 20 minutes of Toy Story 3 is something of an emotional trip through the wringer (that is, if the film works as intended to the audience).

So much of what actually works here comes from little looks, an occasional throwaway line in what seems to be a screenplay that left plenty of room for the two lead actors to improvise jokes to mixed effect, and the situations that are far shorter than the majority of scenes, like when the son takes his mother to the Grand Canyon after she has spent the entire trip saying she wants to see it.

These trips are probably best suited to students working singly or in small groups, so they can participate in the interactive features that crop up from time to time, like short quizzes and games.

We have ongoing short - term exchanges with students from Pakistan and Morocco, we have recently established a sister school in China, we have groups going to Costa Rica and France this spring, and we are working on trips to China, Japan, and Morocco.

Teachers can apply for summer General Educator Fellowships to work with scientists on research projects, such as monitoring the zebra population in Kenya or excavating sites related to Peru's Wari Empire, in the Andes, or for Live from the Field slots; in this short trip during the school year, teachers report back to their classrooms with blogs, videos, and phone conferences.

Still Working: Ghosts of Chinese Transcontinental Railroad Workers by Lonnie Dai Zovi, is a short ghost story with exercises about a pair of graduated high school students taking their last camping trip together sleeping out in the open, right where the deserted Chinese Labor camp, where the workers on the Transcontinental Railroad used to stay.

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Whether for the daily drive to work or for weekend excursions: Short trips of up to 35 kilometres can be completed in the purely electric mode, which means emission - and fuel - free driving.

Diesel engines aren't suitable for short trips, but work best for motorway travel - and small petrol engines are the opposite, working well in the city and getting noisy on faster roads.

Despite the fact that most of my driving is the short 4 - mile trip to and from work, the idea of going through the inconvenience of renting a car for longer trips and the potential of getting stranded after an unpredictable busy day of driving (especially in my cold Minnesota climes where the battery can drain rapidly in sub-zero temps), has prevented me from

More importantly, the Pacifica Hybrid does deliver real savings where vans do most of their work: on short trips in the city while ferrying kids to class and running errands.

For a demonstration of how the Land Rover InControl ® apps and services actually work, come test drive any new Land Rover vehicle at Land Rover Fort Myers, located at 15875 S. Tamiami Trail in Fort Myers, FL, just a short trip from Cape Coral.

A two - seater, the 2009 Nissan 370Z works best as a weekend sport driver and track day car, or, with the cabin tech package, a grand tourer good for short road trips.

The Bottom Line A two - seater, the 2009 Nissan 370Z works best as a weekend sport driver and track day car, or, with the cabin tech package, a grand tourer good for short road trips.

Camaros are very reliable cars, and I have been driving this car every day - both short trips back and forth to work, but also on longer trips cross country.

I don't commute to work, so the car is mainly used for running errands on the weekend and the occasional short road trip.

design of sedan overall is great.this sedan is great on fuel (current price of gas $ 3.10) i fill up once a week with $ 37.00 getting on average 445 miles per tank @ around 12.2 gallons.i travel 80 miles round trip to work so i need 400 miles to make it through work week not counting small trips here and there so filling up once a week is very nice.ONLY 1 thing i wish was better and that is design of sun visors (too short) and since i travel east in the morning - the sun hits my eyes pretty hard so sunglasses a must.BUT thats it!

His non-fiction works include Short Circuit: Six Months on the Men's Professional Tennis Tour (1983), Money to Burn (1987), Ladies of the Court: Grace And Disgrace On The Women's Tennis Tour (1993), If You Could See Me Now: A Chronicle of Identity and Adoption (2006), Between Terror and Tourism: An Overland Trip Across North Africa (2010) and Sympathy for the Devil: Four Decades of Friendship with Gore Vidal (2014).

A series of trips (to conventions and visits with my daughter and grandsons), the constant work it seems to take to keep my body moving at my age, a demanding schedule of lunches and tea dates with friends, a number of other authors» manuscripts I had the honor to beta read, and the unexpected discovery that my short sequel had turned into two full - length books, meant that here I am, not six months, but a year later, finally, starting to work on my next historical mystery.

Short - term goals such as vacations should have a time horizon of one to two years; medium - term goals such as taking a year off work are usually three to five years and long - term goals such as taking a trip around the world and retirement are often 10 years or more.

You will be part of a serene and secluded neighborhood, yet only a short trip away from work, leisure, and shopping.

To avoid unnecessary stress and anxiety, work your pet up to longer trips by taking shorter treks before taking on a long expedition.

If you're worried that there might be problems, you can always start with a short trip and work towards longer ones as you get more confident.

Car Travel With Your Rabbit For short car trips, such as to the vet, your rabbit should be in hard plastic - type carrier; a top opening works well in my experience.

This is also the right time to see how your equipment works out — check to see that toys are safely installed, look for any chewing damage to the carrier after short trips, check clips and locks, ensure that things don't move around too much within the cage and your bird is secure.

Once he's comfortable being in the car, start taking him on short trips and work your way up to longer ones.

I'm lucky enough to travel monthly, so with this kind of travel lifestyle I often add extra days to a work trip to have a short vacay in a destination or add on a flight when I can to see family and friends.

After Puerto Rico, we're taking a road trip to Central and Northern California over the week of Christmas — which may be cut short due to how burnt out we are both feeling with work and constant travel.

For shorter or fixed - duration trips (of a year or less), it may be better to save a fixed amount of money and just enjoy your trip, since spending half your waking hours abroad working is probably not how you envision your trip.

The furthest I had travelled was to Uganda when I went on a short trip with a group of work colleagues who were supporting a charity called Medcare that was doing some incredible lifesaving work out there.