Mar
15
global community
Posted by: Natasha Chiang | March 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment
One of the 15 5-year-old kids we enrolled in our Busolwe summer Kindergarten trial classes recently died. He was too weak to fight off some kind of virus because he already had severe anemia and was quite malnourished. We found out through a phone call to the village confirming the progress of the community projects, […]
Feb
8
off- campus
Posted by: Natasha Chiang | February 8, 2012 | Leave a Comment
I spent the first half of my day in the poorest part of Vancouver, and the second half in the wealthiest neighbourhood of Vancouver. I pass by such a wide range of neighbourhoods on the #4-Powell Bus from UBC to East Hastings and Main Street, from big mansions overlooking the water, to Vancouver’s central business […]
Jan
13
disregard
Posted by: Natasha Chiang | January 13, 2012 | 1 Comment
Today I opened my old hotmail account since a very long time and realized with dread how many web accounts I’ve set up over the past 10 years ever since I learned how to set up accounts. There are so many web identities I have; there is so much of me in all those identities, […]