Change Yourself…Change The World.

Hello, Hola, Bonjour, Tashi Deleck, Namaste, Ni Hao, Sao Di Kaap, Namaste, and Merhaba!

I am a 21 year old American student traveling the world. I went to CalArts for two years, an art school in Los Angeles, and I studied music and animation with a major in World Music (mostly African drumming, North Indian tabla, and classical percussion). After a year and a half I developed chronic tendonitis in both of my hands and was unable to drum anymore. In a very depressed state in the Winter of 2007, I decided to take off a semester to rest my hands and traveled to India instead with Carpe Diem International. Well, it turned out to be the best thing I could do for myself! It opened up a world of possibility and put me in touch with the goals I want in my life; to take this amazing education I’ve received and do something good with it. I returned to the US in May 2008 and promptly transferred to Global College/Friend’s World, the only university in the US that allows students to base 3.5 years of their residency outside of the United States. In 2008-2009, I’ve traveled to Taiwan, Thailand, Burma, India, Nepal, Turkey, Armenia, England, France, Switzerland, Italy, and Bangladesh. For my Fall semester in 2009, I studied in Costa Rica and Paraguay, and traveled to Panama, Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Peru. Now I am in New York for my final semester. While traveling the world (and living with nine other people in close quarters for eight months, working two international internships, and staying at various homestays), I have realized quite a few things about myself in the process.

I love drumming, animation, music, playing guitar and piano, Tibetan issues, community development, social issues, human rights advocacy, self-sustainable development, economics, microfinance, reading, writing, photography, art, languages… all of that good stuff.

This is a blog on my travels. I’ve been traveling all over the world since Spring 2008, and I have no intention of stopping!