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Sacrifices, Challenges, & Opportunities

Where do I begin? There was no one word that could describe how I felt as I was packing up to go home. I felt kind of foolish because the real straw that broke the camel’s back was my dead LaCie harddrive. When I got home, after the culture shock, I felt lucky. The blood tests I took here helped explained why I was feeling so sick, tired, and ill those last few months in Bangladesh. But, in the best case scenario, this problem was due to the iron-heavy drinking water in Bangladesh. What does that say about what awaits me when I return? I certainly don’t want to stop this project – although, given the financial (and now medical) strains, it’s only a matter of time until I have to stop.

This video is one of my sadder videos. It’s also one of the least watched videos on my channel. So if you haven’t already, please do take a look:

Some photos of my return trip after the jump.

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Yet Another Reason to be Hopeful

A Muslim comes to the aid of a Jewish person being beaten by Anti-Semites in New York City. Turns out all it takes to piss off an Anti-Semite is to wish them “Happy Hanukkah”.

You can read the story here on CNN. This was also posted by Rezwan in his blog The Third World View as well as on a popular Jewish blog.

Oh, and what’s the background of this person who came to help? He’s a 20-something student of Bangladeshi ancestry. :-)