Mom informed me tonight that this Thursday, 9:00 our time, the travel channel show "1,000 places to see before you die" will feature Cambodia.
Enjoy!
Monday, April 30, 2007
Sunday, April 22, 2007
Flight & More money!
After much trouble and back and forth, I finally have booked a flight. While living in Ohio, "the heart of it all", has its benefits, when it comes to booking an international flight, it's not the best place to be leaving from. Therefore, my itinerary is sort of ugly to look at, with long layovers in the LAX airport. I fly out of Detroit on Friday, June 15th, arrive at Dallas/Fort Worth, then on to LA. After a long layover in LA, I leave for Tawain, and then head on in to the capital, Phnom Penh. GEESH!I decided to stay a few days after the program ends, to be able to travel to the temples in Angkor War, so my flight leaves from Cambodia on Saturday, July 21, and I'll be back in Detroit Sunday morning. I put the flight on a credit card, the first time I've ever used one, so let's keep our fingers crossed that I stay on top of this and not end up paying for this flight the rest of my life.
Now all I have to do is send the application for my Visa to the embassy in Washington DC. Of course, the picture I had to take for it looks like crap. Why is it impossible to take a decent, normal looking picture for your license or any other official document?! If you're lucky, I'll humble myself and post the visa picture, just so everyone can laugh at it :-)
However, I'm doubtful that will happen, especially because of an email I just recieved a few short moments ago. I sent a letter and some information to an office on campus that is in charge of learning initiatives here on campus, and they have agreed to donate some money to this program. In return, I will make two presentations on campus, one being a coffee hour program that our International UD program does fairly often, and then the other presentation can be of my choice. How excellent!
Coming Soon: The list of offices and agencies we will be visiting while we're there.
Now all I have to do is send the application for my Visa to the embassy in Washington DC. Of course, the picture I had to take for it looks like crap. Why is it impossible to take a decent, normal looking picture for your license or any other official document?! If you're lucky, I'll humble myself and post the visa picture, just so everyone can laugh at it :-)
However, I'm doubtful that will happen, especially because of an email I just recieved a few short moments ago. I sent a letter and some information to an office on campus that is in charge of learning initiatives here on campus, and they have agreed to donate some money to this program. In return, I will make two presentations on campus, one being a coffee hour program that our International UD program does fairly often, and then the other presentation can be of my choice. How excellent!
Coming Soon: The list of offices and agencies we will be visiting while we're there.
Monday, April 9, 2007
Plans plans and more plans!
Almost time to book my flight! I'm weighing my options right now, trying to book online is getting a bit intimidating with all the time zones to be crossed and what not.
Also, I'm looking into spending a few days extra and traveling to Angkor Wat to see all the temples and hopefully ride an elephant! I've been emailing back and forth with the group to see if someone else is interested, so I don't have to do it alone!
Speaking of the group, we did recieve the bios, and let me tell you, this is a very impressive group of people we have here! I should have been far more nervous for the phone interview than I think I really was, or maybe not, ya know, ignorance is bliss sometimes I guess. Anyways, I'm very excited to get to spend time with these people, they are all involved in really wonderful things and at some exciting schools. People from India, Cambodia, Australia, UCLA, etc.
Still waiting to hear from the rents when they see the article in the Mirror...I'll let ya know!
Thanks to all those that have donated so far, as I come up on my last payment, buying my flight (with a credit card, uh oh bring on the debt), pay for my visa and start getting down to it, it is more helpful than you can know!
Also, I'm looking into spending a few days extra and traveling to Angkor Wat to see all the temples and hopefully ride an elephant! I've been emailing back and forth with the group to see if someone else is interested, so I don't have to do it alone!
Speaking of the group, we did recieve the bios, and let me tell you, this is a very impressive group of people we have here! I should have been far more nervous for the phone interview than I think I really was, or maybe not, ya know, ignorance is bliss sometimes I guess. Anyways, I'm very excited to get to spend time with these people, they are all involved in really wonderful things and at some exciting schools. People from India, Cambodia, Australia, UCLA, etc.
Still waiting to hear from the rents when they see the article in the Mirror...I'll let ya know!
Thanks to all those that have donated so far, as I come up on my last payment, buying my flight (with a credit card, uh oh bring on the debt), pay for my visa and start getting down to it, it is more helpful than you can know!
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