The Grace of Gold

My Scholarship entry - The Golden Land

Myanmar | Tuesday, November 18, 2014 | 5 photos

Craving adventure, two months after graduating college with a degree in journalism and a minor in photography, I moved to China to teach english. After my ten-month contract finished, I found myself in Shanghai where I began writing for a city magazine called That's Shanghai. During my three years there, I was fortunate to travel and document a variety of cultures, people, landscapes and colors, both in China and throughout Asia. I also had many adventures, from bungee jumping in a Chinese amusement park for USD10 to doing a three day bike marathon through Inner Mongolia to backpacking through Myanmar.

Now, back in the US, I'm trying to figure out my next long-term adventure. When I was in the second grade, my teacher Ms. McCandless taught our class about the Rainforest. Fascinated by the colors, creatures and destruction we learned of, us seven-year olds worked to raise money to save the wildlife by putting on puppet shows and selling T-shirts we had designed. I remember one had a picture of a toucan and read 'You Tou Can Help.' Since that time, it's been a dream of mine to go there; to experience, capture and share both the colors, and catastrophes, of the Amazon.