Monthly Archives: February, 2012
Happy 10th Anniversary to My One-Way Ticket to Nairobi
I have a big anniversary to celebrate this year. It’s the 10th year anniversary of starting my life completely over again by quitting my investment banking job and buying a … Continue reading
A Memory of Two Views – Uzbekistan
Last week I read an article by Foreign Policy Magazine about the possibility of an ‘Arab Spring’ occurring in Central Asia and it made me remember looking out of my … Continue reading
The Common Thread of Laughter – Sudan
My husband and I are currently learning the Lao language and we spend 2-3 hours everyday having conversations with our teacher (who is from Laos) speaking only in Lao, five … Continue reading
Pencils of Promise
Yesterday I came across Pencils of Promise, an organization building schools in northern Laos. Their mission is to build schools in impoverished areas around the world and are currently working … Continue reading
How I got here
I won’t start at the very beginning beginning (although you’ll probably hear about several beginnings that have occured in my lifetime if you stick around long enough). I’ll just pick … Continue reading
