What I am doing:

I am currently working with an organization called Peace Brigades International in Nepal. This organization does international human rights accompaniment work. I am assigned to shadow threatened human rights workers to act as a witness and deterrent to political violence. I represent both the implied and actual attention of the international community. Thus, my presence along with a great deal of diplomacy work with all levels of government and military functions to prevent violence directed at these people. If further threats or a confrontation does occur concerning the person I am accompanying, or myself, an Emergency Response Network is activated that puts heavy pressure on the perpetrators. This network extends from simple actions from people like yourself to high level diplomatic sanctions, pressure from UN officials, Pressure from other countries' governments, etc... This, along with other nonviolent forms of action work to protect these people's lives and allow them to do their very important work.





Thursday, October 21, 2010





Holidays!

Well, My dear sister Kelly came to visit me in the begining of October and we had a wonderful time. She came to Gularia, the town i am working in, for a while and saw the life i am leading now. She and i spend a fair amount of time with my friend Surendra(in the photo)in the times that I was not working. And he even kept her company when i was on the job some of the time. We then went to the Bardiya National park for a weekend and stayed in a lodge and took a nice long day hike in the jungle. We say monkeys, impressive birds, dear, a family of wild boar crossing a river, a quick glimps of a rhino's butt, crocadiles, etc... we also saw many tracks of boath wild elephant and tigers! Then i took a few days off and spent them with Kell in Kathmandu. We went to see a few sights, spent the day with one of the families that i have lived with ("the best day ive had here" kelly said), and went to my old school that i attened back in 2007. All in all it was a wonderful trip and it did us both good to spend time with eachother again. And ill have you all know that we were serious and mature the whole time and did nothing wierd or silly or had any shinanagins.

And shortly after this wonderful visit and break from the stress of my job, I came home to La Crosse for my best friend Tyler's wedding. The day of the wedding was what everyone hopes it will be. The weather was wonderful, the cerimony went off without a hitch, mothers were crying, no one fainted, and we danced up a storm at the reception. (this particularly references me and my mother rockin it as we did the twist)It is allways such a happy ocasion to be at weddings and think about people just loving on eachother. I am not looking forward to going back to work feeling very rejuvinated and ready to put my nose back to the grind-stone.
Much love to all.