Tanzania’s Good as Giving Gets – Giving U™

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

Giving Spotlight: Mpanga School, Usambara Mountains, Tanzania  

When traveling in the Usambara Mountains, my group and I visited a school called Mpanga Primary School that taught about 750 kids, ages 7-14. In preparing for our visit, we went on …

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Irkutsk, Russia: Where Fox Tails Come From

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

Why You Want a Fox Tail

 It was a rainy day in Irkutsk, Russia and I was walking with my friends Molly and Bec. We see a woman go-go dancing high on a balcony and she was completely into …

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Hong Kong: Chungking Crazy

Sunday, April 19th, 2009

how big were the rats in Hong Kong?
trap dimensions 5″ x5″ x 18″

When I think of Hong Kong, my first memory is always of Chungking Mansions. Not only was it my first home in the territory, but also …

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Mountain Climbing with Ralph Lauren in Borneo

Sunday, April 19th, 2009

How cool is this travel game?! I lived in Hong Kong and my boyfriend at the time lived in Singapore, so I’d fly down a couple of times a month to see him. Now Singapore is a small, repressed society, …

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