Friends, Activity Partners

Jul 2004

Madison-WI, Long Meting- Sg. Mendalam, Kal-Bar

Center for International Forestry Research, Save the Children, Human Rights Watch, HPDES

http://profiles.friendster.com/brihannala

Cornell University, PICA, University of Michigan

nomad- reseacher-backpacker--grad student

trees, washing clothes in rivers, long distance phone calls, bikes, sunbears, participatory rural appraisal, the Williamsburg Bridge, contra dancing, Hanoi, hugs, Ladakhi apricot jam, Kardung-La, fixies, Kerelan politics

fighting the battle between my urge to find community and become a bike mechanic and my ability and calling for social justice work in Southeast Asia;

comprimising by getting a dual master's degree in Natural Resource Management and Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Michigan, with the goal of doing environmental planning work in developing countries...

...currently currently attempting to get used to America after the last 19 months in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, and India... I miss the developing world...

Someone who speaks Indonesian and English, and grew up in an out of the way village in a developing country. Someone who will never mind how dirty I am. Anyone who will not be intimidated. Someone who will sleep under a tree with me. Someone who will ask me to sleep under a tree with them.