Thursday, September 30, 2010
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Views of Cambodia
Here are a few pictures of my time here in Cambodia. Just a sampling of life here and how I see it.
Saturday, September 25, 2010
I'm Back!!!!!!!
After more than a year hiatus, I am beginning my blog once more. Hopefully someone out there is still at least a little interested in what I have been up to and what I am doing now.
I have left the Connection Newspapers and the newspapers business. I was accepted into and enrolled at Brandeis University for a graduate program in Sustainable International Development. Don’t ask me what that means, I have not figured it out yet, but am working on it. I spent the last year on campus in Waltham, Mass, just outside of Boston, for the on campus portion of the program. Since June, I have been in Phnom Penh, Cambodia for the second-year off campus-required portion. I will be here until the end of February. I am working with an organization called Equal Access. Equal Access is an organization that uses communication has a form of development through social and behavioral change, mainly through the use of innovative radio programs.
I have enjoyed my time here in Cambodia learning more about the field of international development and hopefully finding something I can be interested in and passionate about in this new life direction of mine. Cambodia is a beautiful country that is emerging from years of horrible atrocities and a period of genocide. Cambodians, for the most part, are looking to the future, but without forgetting the past. Over half the population is under the age of 18, so youth development is of vital importance here, and it is a difficult path to chart.
Enough of work and the reasons for development here, Cambodia, is truly a beautiful country. There are hundreds of ancient Hindu, and Buddhist temples dotting the countryside, none more famous than Angkor Wat in Siem Reap. This is a massive complex of over 20 temples in one general area, with Angkor Wat being the biggest. Angkor Wat is the largest religious complex in the world and has stood for thousands of years. There are also amazing, remote and undeveloped beaches, which are wonderful due to a lack of technology and crowds.
Well, I guess that’s it for now. I promise I will make a better effort for now on to maintain regular updates, with photos of course, to my blog.
I have left the Connection Newspapers and the newspapers business. I was accepted into and enrolled at Brandeis University for a graduate program in Sustainable International Development. Don’t ask me what that means, I have not figured it out yet, but am working on it. I spent the last year on campus in Waltham, Mass, just outside of Boston, for the on campus portion of the program. Since June, I have been in Phnom Penh, Cambodia for the second-year off campus-required portion. I will be here until the end of February. I am working with an organization called Equal Access. Equal Access is an organization that uses communication has a form of development through social and behavioral change, mainly through the use of innovative radio programs.
I have enjoyed my time here in Cambodia learning more about the field of international development and hopefully finding something I can be interested in and passionate about in this new life direction of mine. Cambodia is a beautiful country that is emerging from years of horrible atrocities and a period of genocide. Cambodians, for the most part, are looking to the future, but without forgetting the past. Over half the population is under the age of 18, so youth development is of vital importance here, and it is a difficult path to chart.
Enough of work and the reasons for development here, Cambodia, is truly a beautiful country. There are hundreds of ancient Hindu, and Buddhist temples dotting the countryside, none more famous than Angkor Wat in Siem Reap. This is a massive complex of over 20 temples in one general area, with Angkor Wat being the biggest. Angkor Wat is the largest religious complex in the world and has stood for thousands of years. There are also amazing, remote and undeveloped beaches, which are wonderful due to a lack of technology and crowds.
Well, I guess that’s it for now. I promise I will make a better effort for now on to maintain regular updates, with photos of course, to my blog.
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