See This Movie

I watched this documentary, "Living In Emergency" with my brother a few nights ago and I was at a loss for words. This documentary about Medecins San Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) IS AMAZING. The reason I liked it so much wasn’t because it glorified the doctors that undertake the medical mission, but rather the opposite. The realistic depiction of how difficult practicing medicine can be in situations in Africa and very needy/violent war torn communities around the world really opens your eyes to what daily life in parts of the world are like. Ultimately it really shows you the tragic fallacy of what trying to help people can be, that sometimes your work goes unrecognized and opposed. On a lighter note I really think it inspires a realistic inclination to help around the world, at least it did for me, granted me seeing this is a little like shooting fish in a barrel.

New Camera

Just bought a new camera that I love. It's the Sony Cybershot hx100. I highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in photography. I'll have sample shots soon.

Inaugural

Hey everyone, or just the one follower. So it's my first blog entry defying the odds at last of me writing about myself. I am very excited though because I get to write about my amazing presentation at Newton last week. On Friday the 19th I was invited to organize and speak about African diseases of poverty and the social ramifications at my Alma mater, Newton Middle School. I spoke for a bit about a few endemic diseases I'll most likely see in Kenya and Somalia but really I gave a great deal of effort to relate the material to the students lives in hopes of enlightening them a little on the topic of social injustice. I should give credit to "Miss Stilley" for her excellent advice on teaching and presenting material to students, it really did help. Hopefully the community service project that the staff at Newton and I organized will managed to accomplish a greater sense of community with the students, if just to a small degree. But I must say I was so well received and the questions the students posed were so excellent, I could not have been more impressed. Finally I want to extend a sincere thank you to the teachers for inviting me, specifically my wonderful ex teacher/neighbor Jill Mack, thank you so much it was a pleasure.