A woman squeezes herself into a transparent suitcase to raise awareness of human trafficking and mark the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.



Thanks to Marisa for sending that to me. I will never have the balls to do something like that. But thank god someone does. It sure does make you think. On lighter, related news, I may have an internship with the Asia Foundation working with a group of woman to prevent them from becoming victims of trafficking. More info to come..

Jessie just put up a new song on her blog, listen to it. I keep playing it on repeat. I love her. For so many reasons. One being she is an amazing friend, but mostly though, I admire her for being able to say whatever is on her mind. Why can't I ever do that? She also gets the point across, in a way that a lot of people don't have the guts to. You never have to guess with her, you don't have to be afraid to be yourself around her, and she won't put up with your bullshit. She also will take you shopping to make you feel better haha. Just a little ode to her, I'm missing my best friends today.

Also, thanks to Jo for finding me a job when I get back.

I'm currently in Kuala Lumpur, leaving tomorrow to go somewhere else in Malaysia (to be determined tonight, as I read my lonely planet to help me fall asleep these days..) and then I've decided to go to Singapore, then HOME. To Can Tho that is. I don't have money to keep going, and since Singapore is the most expensive, I figure that will be a good place to stop. I have so much to say about everything. When I walk around all day, random thoughts pop into my head, which I sometimes stop to jot down in my journal, but whenever I come online I don't know how to share everything with you guys. Maybe that will get easier once I'm stationed again. I miss having a home base. I don't know how people do this for a year at a time. Although I guess if I had the funds, I would enjoy it a lot more. Anyway, sorry I've been lame with country updates, I just don't have the energy to type it all up yet. I can tell you though, that I LOVE Malaysia. Possible even more than Thailand.. although I've only been to one city so I can't make any rash decisions yet. It is an amazing place though, I can't wait to put my pictures up and share some stories with you guys (if I can get to that..)

I am just missing people right now. My friends are really great, and I'm looking forward to a few packages when I get back to Can Tho, which is really exciting. There are people who keep letting me down though, and I wish that wasn't true. I've dealt with all of the bs I left behind, and I'm generally in a really great place, which is a huge part of the reason I left, so I'm really happy about all of that. But I guess some people will never change, which is just something I have to accept. And other people have just fallen off the map completely, which I guess I also have to accept, since I'm the one who chose to move halfway across the world. I'm just tired of being let down by people, but I suppose thats a part of this whole learning process.

Anyway, other then that rant, everything is good. I probably miss you, but I'll catch up to everyone once I get back, I promise! This is one of my favorite things ever: