Month: September 2005

I am back home in California. I had a safe and comfortable trip from San Pedro to Guatemala City, then on to San Francisco by three American Airlines flights stopping in Dallas and Los Angeles. In Guatemala City, I got to go with Ben, his girlfriend and her brother to the World Cup qualifying game…

Sounds like a really deep question, right? But in this case, it was esay. With help from my parents and grandparents, I traded in my complicated itinerary home for a simple e-ticket on American Airlines from Guatemala City to San Francisco. The old itinerary involved a too-expensive flight from Guatemala to Cancun, or a really…

Over this year, some people have asked me, “Why do you seek to work for an international organization when there are so many problems that need to be solved inside the US?” It is a good question, and until Hurricane Katrina, my answer was, “I choose to work overseas because the US has enough good…