tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-117846992024-03-08T11:29:36.487-08:00dsatohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11126979285438253765noreply@blogger.comBlogger104125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11784699.post-1159134909617571882006-09-24T14:41:00.000-07:002006-12-04T00:45:04.266-08:00

I'm finally making the jump away from blogger to a wordpress blog. I guess that means I won't be spending as much time at BloggerHacks. The new site can be found at http://www.danielsato.comI am still working on the site...hopefully I have an index page and all of that up soon.Technorati Tags: blog | wordpress | blogger | Daniel Sato | dsato

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Another thing that has kept me busy this semester has been the SJSU NPPA student chapter. I am pleased to post our list of guest speakers for the semester (full list of events to come).Tuesday, Sept. 19 - BBQ with new SJSU photojournalism professor, Dr. Michael Cheers. Cheers is a former professor of photojournalism and magazine journalism at the University of Mississippi. The BBQ starts at 5

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It has been more than a month since my last post. I have been kept busy at my new post as Spartan Daily online editor. Thanks to Neal Waters, we started the semester off with a multimedia presentation on the San Jose Grand Prix.Neal and I are also working on a rather frustrating site redesign for thespartandaily.com. As Ryan Sholin pointed out not too long ago, it can be a pain to work in a

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As I write this I am sitting in an internet cafe located in the Bangkok International Airport. My time in Nepal has come to an end, and now I move on to a more leisurely vacation in Japan. You can continue to follow Rene Edde's exploits in Nepal and possibly elsewhere by keeping up with her blog.San Jose State University photojournalism student Diana Diroy is off in the Philippines working on

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While in the village of Mudikuwa with Rishikesh Tiwari, we had many discussions about the current political situation in Nepal, as well as the history of both Nepal and America. Interestingly, we came to the conclusion that he is afraid his government does not know enough about its citizens, and I worry that my government tries to know too much. In a land sandwiched between two countries that

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yay.

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I woke up today to the realization that I have but one week left in Nepal. Looking back at my time, it feels like it has been a personal test more than anything else. Could I redouble my efforts in the face of unexpected adversity? Prior to my interest in photography and journalism, I am not sure that the answer would have been yes. And yet, here I am, one month and one week in later Nepal, my

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Does anyone know why my white background refuses to go all of the way down the whole page? I must have screwed it up during one of the many times I disconnected due to rain and power outtages while messing with my template.

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The next stop in my visit to Nepal was to be Mudikawa village in Parbot District. Here I saw the work of Rishi Tiwari, who was working to empower the farmers in his village. I began my mini-excursion in Pokhara, in the company of Ashoka Fellows Rishi Tiwari and Lucky Chetri. We traveled by taxi for two hours from Pokhara to Kusma. Here we left our ride and began our trek on foot.We descended

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Pokhara feels a world away from Kathmandu, and is a welcome reprieve from the hustle and bustle found there. In Pokhara I am free to walk the streets without worrying about being honked at constantly or hit by the occasional stray side view mirror. It has rained each day that I have been here (as it had been in Kathmandu), though the rain in Pokhara elicits different feelings than in Kathmandu

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I had never before heard of the term “social entrepreneur” before getting in contact with Ashoka. With people increasingly disappointed by the lack of action taken by governments to solve problems, a growing citizen sector has emerged which seeks to enact change, often in unconventional ways. We in the field of journalism have seen the rise of citizen journalism in response to readers who have

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While blogging about my time in Nepal, I happened to catch the attention of someone from an organization called Ashoka. I soon met with Sadhana Shrestha, country representative of Nepal for the Ashoka organization. She informed me of the history of the organization, its founding, its current state, and the plans for the future, both in Nepal and globally. I learned of the tireless work of

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I really had no intention of bringing up the Internship Nepal program again. However, I could not help but notice the redesigned website, especially when Mr. Nardev Pandey's last email told me that he would "post my part of the say in this matter in the Internship Nepal website shortly," and to "please keep watching."My first response on seeing the redesign was that it was much cleaner and

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Fellow former Internship Nepal intern Rene Edde, a photography and journalism student at Columbia College in Chicago, has also put up her thoughts on living in Nepal. You can view her post here. And be sure to check out her flickr account as well.Technorati Tags: Rene Edde | photojournalism | blog | Nepal | Daniel Sato | dsato

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Rewat Timilsina left his home at only seven years of age, dreams of fame and fortune filling his mind. Unfortunately, what awaited him was not acting stardom but a life on the street. It was this life though, that shaped Rewat into who his is today, the head of an NGO who works tirelessly to help those who find themselves in the position he was once in.Growing up on the street, he turned to a

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I have been fiddling again with the structure of this blog. For a while I had multiple headers, might put that back up. I added a new category system as found here. I have also added a js that lets me easily append technorati tags. I am still debating if this is better or worse than the last js which added del.ici.ous tags which are also recognized by technorati (or so I've come to think...).

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If there was one word to sum up my experience of Kathmandu and Nepal to this point, it would simply be; unexpected. This doesn't just cover the fact that I am no longer with Internship Nepal and that I have found my own projects to work on. Kathmandu is definitely not the Kathmandu I expected from reading the Lonely Planet guidebook. In preparing for my trip, I was expecting a culture that was

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I decided to bring my MiniDisc recorder to the JAFON center in the hopes of interviewing Rewat about his background, why he started the program, and where he hoped it would go. Instead, I was greeted with guitars, a drum, and singing. I will post audio as soon as I download and edit it from the recorder.Tags:nepal summer2006 photojournalism

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and I am wearing the same pair of pants.Tags:nepal personal

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Today was the second time I visited the JAFON center in Patan. As with the first visit, the children and youth at the center were more interested in posing for the camera than anything else. They did appreciate the photos that Rene had printed the night before, and I plan on bringing more from this visit the next time I go. After about half an hour of posing for the camera in front of the

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I am no longer staying at the Kathmandu Guest House. In an effort to save some money, I now reside at Hotel Northfield, about four buildings down from KTM Guest House. I have gone from spending $7.50 a night to $3 a night. As far as wireless internet access is concerned in Kathmandu, I know of three hot spots, all within the Thamel area. At Java Coffee House, you can purchase internet access

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I am now taking photos for an organization called Jagaran Forum Nepal (JAFON). JAFON is a non-profit organization started by Rewat Raj Timilsina to help deal with the problems that children living on the streets in Nepal face. We were put in contact with Rewat through Kishore, a photographer who worked with Rene at VOW and BOSS magazines. According to Rewat, who once lived on the streets

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On June 20, 2006 I parted ways with the Internship Nepal program. Though I imagine working at the Nepali Times would have given me access to events that were more interesting than tea parties and fashion shows, such as what Rene experienced with VOW, I found it too difficult to remain in a program that was headed by someone who I had difficulty placing my trust in. The day before, we had gone

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Three days later and I finally arrived in Kathmandu, Nepal. Spending a night in Bangkok was interesting as my hostel happened to be right next to the red light district of Patpong, made infamous by American GI's who were on R&R during the Vietnam War. I went out for a walk to buy some souvenirs for people and was constantly propositioned to go into bars, watch shows, get massages, etc.

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The first day of my summer trip transpired without too many problems. This was the first time I had ever traveled outside of the United States and I quickly learned one thing: don't choose a window seat on a 12 hour flight. I was only able to sleep for two hours, though that did allow me time to watch Big Momma's House 2, Match Point, some movie about saving sled dogs in Antarctica that had the

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