August 20, 2007

 Worldwide Trip Kicking Off on This Thursday

My last visit to UNESCO HQ offered me the opportunity to tour one of Communication Multi-Media Centers, running by UNESCO/Kenya, in Kisumu, located in Western Kenya and on the shores of Lake Victoria. During my stay in Kenya, I suppose to take a look at the center in order to start our project. I am wondering if we can set out our activities there early next year. In Nairobi, I will take part in an activity.
After that, I will fly into London with some arrangements. I couldn’t set my schedule to meet up some people last time I was there, so that we are organizing our meetings for realization at this time. I met very interesting people in my last stay, and we are scheduling a time to see each other again. I realized that many organizations in UK are more likely to support activities of NPOs and fund with incredibly high amounts of money (Japan’s is one digit off). We have supporters both in London and Kent who are implementing activities to promote our project. We plan on carrying out our fundraising together.
From London, I will leave to Vienna, Austria. In Vienna, meetings are supposed to be held to discuss our project, Webcam Activities, simultaneously interconnecting three locations in coming November. And then, I will head into Amsterdam to share our project plans with some organizations. We have been under the impression that Amsterdam is a good place to launch our Europe office. After the meetings, I need to return to UNESCO HQ in Paris for my presentation, reporting my scrutiny tour to Kenya.

My worldwide trip continues: I will take off to Boston from Europe. I haven’t been to Boston for a while and it’s been over two years since I visited Media Lab. As part of my travel itineraries, I decided to stop over the Media Lab to show how our project has been done. It’s strange to say, right after I made up my mind going back to US, emails from a professor and former business director at the Media Lab came in to ask how I am doing. I hadn’t let anyone know about my trip to US, so I emailed back to tell them, “I am coming!!”
It seems like staff members of the Media Lab are preparing for my presentation. They are very light-hearted and always compellingly ask me to do something together. They are organizing the party to celebrate their project accomplishment, held next year and sponsored by Prince of Monaco. I have already been invited to the party because it’ll surely help Pangaea in building social networks. As far as I remember, they have been working on interesting projects. I set Soul as the final destination of this trip. I will attend some activities with new staffs there, and then fly back to Japan on September 24. Mmmm … That’s a very lengthy trip. I probably spend 1/3 of my time in this trip on sitting in transportations.

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