Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Time is flying by, we are now in our 7th week here! It has been a while since my last post, which was during my Field study in Mae Sot. We made it safe and sound back to Bangkok on St. Patrick's day. I only had one day off to recover from the field study and then it was a full day of professional networking. I met with the Department of Special Investigations who are under the Ministry of Justice here. They focus on international crime and white collar crimes as well as corruption. Made some great contacts as well I have some opportunity to work with them while I am here. I then went to visit the Central Institute of Forensic Science. There are some interesting challenges here for the CIFS, one being the volume of unclaimed or unidentified remains. They still have approximately 500 people from the tsunami that have been unclaimed. Some of the challenges here is the large volume of illegal immigrants which makes identification of deceased difficult.

This past weekend I travelled to Pattaya to help out the Jomtien-Pattaya Rotary Club with the Cross the Bay Charity Swim. It is about a two hour bus ride from Bangkok and an interesting place! I spent the day Sunday giving out medals to the swimmers and helping out with the event. See if you can spot me in the pic and the news clip!
http://www.pattayapeople.com/default.asp?Folder=16&IdArticle=30356

Sorry for the short post! so much more to fill everyone in on...hopefully will get a chance to catch up soon

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