Screen name: 
Gender: 
Male
If you must know: 
I'm single
Travel status: 
Traveling soon
Hometown: 
Brisbane
Currently in: 
Brisbane
 
Traveling Next: 
Guatemala
Favorite places I've been: 
Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, Laos

Places I want to go to: 
Panama, Slovenia, Austria, Germany, Mexico, Russia, Burma,

 
About me: 
If, in fifty years time, I can look back on my life and honestly acknowledge that I have pursued what I take pleasure in, I believe I will be happy. Currently, I am studying Journalism. However, I am not interested in writing for newspapers or being on television. Simply, I wish to travel to unique locations, whilst promoting ecotourism, in order to write about the people who occupy these locations and the culture they embody. Why? I believe if more people opened their eyes and accepted other people and cultures for their differences, the result would be a much more tolerant and happy world. Though its going to be tough, to discover and write is exactly what I intend to do.

 
 
 
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by Queen_Girl | 2009/12/23

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by lisaopia | 2009/07/07

Like your view on Journalism I feel the same I have a BA from Rutgers Universty in Journalism from 2003 and haven't pursued TV or newspapers and don't want to. Try Ethiopia for a unique place = )( =

by J. Wire | 2009/07/01

Oli, welcome to Matador.

As a fellow writer/student of the word, I've long thought about our stories' capacity to move an individual to change--whether it be a change in their actions, a change in their worldview, or just a change in their perspective, however briefly.

Currently, I've been feeling kind of down about our ability to, as you say, "[help] people open their eyes and accept other people and cultures for their differences." Why, might you ask? Well, it seems to me that demonstrating moments of the intercultural experience seems to carry with it so much hegemonical baggage of our homeland--regardless of where we're from. It is so difficult to write outside the lens of the outsider, and even far more difficult to shake the reader from their own perspective.

I've been doing a lot of _Orientalism_-esque studies, so maybe I'm just getting down on our mission. What do you think?

Anyway, take care, and glad to see you here at Matador!

by hluram | 2009/07/01

I think yours is the first About Me that I've pretty much entirely related to. Welcome!

By oli.rob  |  Location: Australia  |  08/08/09  |  Pics: 0

And then there were times on trains when we thought of the goings of planes and the pains that had come from these games of modern day vanishment.  Would we really look back and trade these conceivable Houdini acts for cars, houses and the other mundane nick nacks?  We arrived at the station...

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By oli.rob  |  Location: Cambodia  |  06/22/09  |  Pics: 2

Beginnings

And much like many airport experiences of the past- the drabness and officiality of such a place had drizzled like the plague through its staff and the steady flow of the rain- that struck the windows in large globs before oozing southwards- further compounded the notion of negativity. ...

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