http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/CharlieWood/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from CharlieWood en-us Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:32:17 +0000 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:32:17 +0000 NOT A BIRTHRIGHT AN OBLIGATIONCHARLIE WOODIt is quite proper to resist and attack a system but to resist and attack its author is tantamount to resisting and attacking oneself. M.K. Ghandi Sixmonths after leaving the Middle East nightmares keep my memories fresh. Growing up religion served as a supportive community and moral compass in a world that many times seems to be spinning in all direct http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Israel/West-Bank/blog-454774.html First and foremost. Drumroll pleasehellip..Kiva Fellowship You are reading the blog of a member of Kiva Fellow class number 13. Please visit my site kivacharlie.wordpress.com if you havenrsquot already done so to read about why I have decided to take an unpaid position working with Kiva a microfinance nonprofit for a year. Along those lines I am actively soliciting donations to make this http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Bangladesh/Khulna/blog-453849.html First off Turkish keyboards are a b305t different and so most of this entry will have 305's where there should be i's. It has been a b305t longer then I intended but here I am more then two months w305thout a blog and sooooo much to wr305te. Th305s w305ll be a long one so take your p305ck or tackle 305n port305ons. Sect305ons w305ll 305nclude Tub305shvat http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Turkey/Eastern-Anatolia/Dogubeyazit/blog-384594.html Hope that this acts as a bit of a flush out entry. I still have my subscription list from 2006 and my South Pacific trip and I have added random contacts. If you are getting this and want to unsubscribe I'm sure the notification email gives you the option to do so. Otherwise if you get this and think you know someone who might want to be on the list please send along the link to httpwww.trave http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/blog-351623.html Well then April 17th to August 14th is a pretty bad break but what can I say I have been busy I suppose and the travelblog is really not as easy as it looks. Anyways I hope that the past three months has been as exciting and invigorating for all of you as they have been for me. My travels have taken me to New Zealand and the life of a traveling agricultural worker which has had its ups and down http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Blenheim/blog-81819.html It appears my plan to keep weekly updates has gone out the window. After reading a few of my past entries I pretty much realized that since I am stationary at the moment in Adelaide I should probably not keep boring all of you with stories about school and St. Mark's. The past month certainly has been full of stories and experiences but I will trim them done to a 'best of' and hope it is entertain http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Victoria/Melbourne/St-Kilda/blog-53319.html Time seems to have really started to roll. The past few entries I have been maintaining a weekly rate but the last week and a half have went by a lot faster it seems. The good thing about having a little more time is that there are a lot of things to update all of you with. Or at least there should be. This entry will cover WOMAD arachnophobia academic update the high table and probably a few http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/South-Australia/Adelaide/blog-46158.html My third week in Adelaide is in the books and in all respects it was a successful one. Through a combination of beginning school continuing to plug into the local scene and getting some regular routines I am overcoming the worst of the inevitable homsesick period I have been going through. While I am in a pretty sweet spot on the globe with not many worries at all lots of things remind me of fr http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/South-Australia/Adelaide/blog-44617.html Two weeks are in the books and to be honest it feels like a lot longer then that. I guess a part of it is that this past week has been pretty hard on the body. I have officially made it through ldquoOWeekrdquo or orientation week. I think I mentioned it in last weekrsquos entry but it definitely deserves a paragraph so here goes.It opened with an afternoon of being pelted with all kinds of http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/South-Australia/Adelaide/blog-43209.html To be honest I have had a fairly relaxing week since I last checked in. With no classes until the beginning of March and barely anyone back for school besides international students I have been enjoying late mornings and meandering days. That should be ending though now. The place I am living httpwww.stmarkscollege.com.au turns out to be a little bit like a fraternity type place. This fact http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/South-Australia/Adelaide/blog-41915.html This is going to be a quick update since I think it is easier to digest a few short paragraphs on this thing then a whole book. Even I had a hard time reading through my whole last entry without taking a nap in the middle. I will have to keep the long entries to the sweet journal I got from a good friend Matt Berry during my LA layover on the way to Sydney on Thursday. Besides being showered with http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/South-Australia/Adelaide/Glenelg/blog-40642.html I am sitting in the Chicago offices of Bovis Lend Lease. Bovis httpwww.bovislendlease.com is an international construction management company that I have had internships at for my summers and winters since I graduated high school in the spring of 2003. For those of you that know my majors are Biology and Sociology with a premed concentration this internship choice might seem a little strang http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Illinois/Chicago/blog-34414.html