The reason I was in Moscow was to attend a wedding. Sam Rothman, the groom, is friends with my Denver crew. We still don’t know if our paths crossed during my annual trips to Denver in the 90’s but I am sure it must have. My friends Brian, Annette and Kristen were attending the wedding [...]
A week before I went to Moscow, I received an e-mail from Walt Sorg. Walt has a morning news radio show in Lansing and has been interviewing me monthly since the adventure has started. You can listen to the interviews by going to the press section of the website. Walt’s e-mail said that he thought [...]
I arrived in Russia at 2:30 am and worked my way through the passport control process. After running that gauntlet, I made it to baggage claim to the harsh realization that my luggage did not arrive with me. Oh, Alitalia how you seduced me with your low fare only to walk out on me in [...]
Dear Gentle Readers,
I have received a number of e-mails in the past day asking if we are doing fine in wake of the terrorist attacks in Istanbul’s Gungoren community. CNN reported that seventeen people were killed and 150 injured in Sunday’s blasts. We are fine and were no where near the area that was bombed. [...]
Jen Turner and I hopped a train from Salzburg to Vienna on the day of the EuroCup semi-final match between Spain and Russia. We arrived in town with enough time to check into our hotel and find a map. We needed to get across town to the stadium and find ourselves two tickets to the [...]
I arrived in Salzburg, Austria with one primary agenda and that was to finalize my Russian Visa. The secondary agenda was to get into the spirit of EuroCup Football before I reached Vienna for the last two matches of the tournament. Gentle readers of “Singh Around the World” know the outcome of the Russian Visa [...]
After the conference, I took the train from Glasgow, Scotland to London, England. It was a five hour journey so I had some time to be alone with my thoughts. My mind was swirling from the conversations, lectures and discussions that happened at the conference. The Global food crisis. Human rights violations. Escalating violence and [...]
The last day of the conference was a very powerful day. The local host committee and the conference planners organized a march and rally for human rights. The march started at the conference center and went to the University of Glasgow. There were a number of speakers that discussed the issues of global poverty and [...]
I went to Glasgow, Scotland to attend the CIVICUS World Assembly. CIVICUS is an international civil society building organization and the World Assembly “is a forum for international civil society representatives to get together, exchange ideas, experiences and build strategies for a just world.”
At the conference, I was introduced to two nonprofit anti-poverty activists from [...]
Pictured: Jaime Bellos, Patrick Krips and Sam Singh in Edinburgh, Scotland.
We left Morocco to head to Dublin to meet my friend Jaime Bellos. Jaime and I met in undergraduate during our freshman year at MSU. He lived with a friend of mine from elementary school in the dorms and we became fast friends. Our schedules [...]
