Seth’s World View

Many a day I’ll leave my abode and start traversing the street by foot. A moment after I hear words like, “tuk tuk,” “moto,” “hey,” and variations thereof. I’m a Westerner, which means I likely have some money to spend, and I’m really unsure if they think we actually like to walk. The more I [...]

Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam are 13 hours ahead of Colorado and 11 hours ahead of Pennsylvania. Thus, I live in the future:) I can talk to people in the morning here, which is evening there. Or I can talk late evening here, which is early morning there. It can be a challenge to connect at [...]

I started volunteering with Empowering Youth in Cambodia at the end of September. After finishing the CELTA course, we decided to come back to Cambodia for a few months and volunteer. Back in Fort Collins, I had taken a few online classes with Village Earth, an NGO that supports and trains those doing community development [...]

flat. We were driving separate cars. I realized that something was occurring, so it was on my mind, but the weight of it hadn’t sunk in. I mean, terrorism happens. Most of the time it’s far away. I never know any of the people involved. While casualties are always a bad thing, the numbers seem [...]