For family and friends I am keeping an online journal of my travels in Europe/Africa/Middle East. It is on the livejournal.com website. Just type in my full name (jamiestucin) and you guys should find it.

Travel what else! Countries visited: Canada, the Bahamas, Cuba, Brazil, South Africa, Tanzania, India, Vietnam, Hong Kong, China, South Korea, and Japan...in the next year I am living in France and traveling all over Europe. During the summer I will be living/volunteering in Ghana with a host family. Also, I will be making trips to Turkey, Syria, and Egypt.

Here are some awesome books I recommend: Sombody's Heart is Burning- Tanya Shaffer, Dark Star Safari- Paul Theroux, Managing Human Resources- Bohlander & Snell, International Politics in a Changing World- Hastedt & Knickrehm, A People's History of the United States- Howard Zinn, The Great Unraveling- Paul Krugman, Longitudes and Attitudes- Thomas Friedman, From Beirut to Jerusalem- Thomas Friedman, Into Africa- Martin Dugard, Created Equal Vol II, Perfectly Legal David- Cay Johnston, A Green History of the World- Clive Ponting, Branded Nation- James B. Twitchell, Who Are We?- Samuel Huntington, The Lexus and the Olive Tree- Thomas Friedman, The Complete History of China- J.A.G. Roberts, A Consumer's Republic- Lizabeth Cohen, Jihad Vs. McWorld- Benjamin R. Barber, The Human Story- James Davis, Democracy in America- Alexis De Tocqueville, Crimes Against Nature- Robert F. Kennedy, Fast Food Nation- Eric Schlosser, Introduction to Buddhism- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, A History of the American People- Paul Johnson, Red Sky at Morning- James Gustave Speth, Bush Versus the Environment- Robert S. Devine, The Collapse of the Kyoto Protocol- David G. Victor, Vital Signs 2003, And don't call me a racist- Ella Mazel, State of the World 2004, State of the World Atlas- Dan Smith, US and Them- Jim Carnes, A Larger Memory- Ronald Takaki, Strangers from a Different Shore- Ronald Takai, Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?- Beverly Daniel Tatum, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man- John Perkins, In Defense of Globalization- Jagdish Bhagwati, Globalization and Its Discontents- Joseph Stiglitz, When Corporations Rule the World- David Korten, Global Issues 03/04, I Dream a World- Brian Lanker, The Working Poor- David Shipler, Doors of Zanzibar, Changing Perspective, and all the Lonely Planet Guide Books- Cuba, Brazil, South Africa, Tanzania, India, Vietnam, China, South Korea, Japan, Western Europe, France, Turkey, and Syria