I’m back in Singapore– it’s good to be home
As I mentioned in my previous post, working with the high school students has been very rewarding, but it hasn’t always been easy.
The experience of the past two months has been a lot of good with some not-so-good thrown in. One of my teammates summed [...]

This is a picture I took on top of a mesa in Crownpoint, New Mexico.
In my mind, the tattered American flag with the New Mexico desert in the background represents the state of affairs in the Navajo Nation.
The Navajo people are, in many ways, torn between the traditional and the modern, the spiritual and the [...]

Next week I’ll be starting an 8-week service project in the Navajo Nation (in Crownpoint, New Mexico). The Navajo Nation is the largest Native American homeland in the US.
I’ll be part of a 7-person team that’s going to run a college preparation summer camp targeted at Navajo high school students.
As part of the training before we [...]

I recently returned from volunteering at an elementary school in San Pedro, Belize, called Holy Cross Anglican School. HCAS opened in 2006 with 60 students, and today it has more than 500. The founders of the school are an American couple, Francis and Vernon Wilson, who went to San Pedro for a vacation in 2000. [...]

I recently came back to Duke after spending 3 weeks in Peru. Here’s a picture of some native Peruvians.
The native people of Peru are descendants of the  Incans. The Incan empire dominated Peru from the 1400s to the 1530s. In the 1530s, the Spanish conquistadors arrived on the scene and conquered the Incans.
Many of the [...]