Day One at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali has been amazing. It has been overwhelming to try and take in all this information but slowly I am getting into the swing of things and finding my place. Taking lots of pictures and it will be difficult to find the time to write on this blog. I apoligise in advance for that but I am sure you understand. The worldwide youth have been co-operating together on an unprecedented scale and it is amazing to be a part of that process. Please check out the Bali Buzz website, and It’s Getting Hot in Here blog, for dispatches from the worldwide Youth Movement.

Till next time I will do my best to keep writing and perhaps provide some meaningful insight into the current stage of this adventure.

R

There is little more personally satisfying then being able to travel to a foreign country and being perfectly able to converse in the language.

It was a short stay in Paris. After navigating the complicated RER system and the metro I succeeded in meeting my contact in Paris and the little apt that I was welcome in. Genevieve is a cousin of a friend and was kind enough to lend me her wonderful air mattress.

A wonderful time was had, some memories:
the Champs Elysee and the admittedly sad display of Christmas lights. Walking along the river and enjoying the beauty of the Eiffel Tower as it graced the Parisian sky line. A wonderful typical French Bavette avec Pommes Frites enjoyed in the company of a very conservative older French couple. Coffee on les Grand Boulevards with Cassie, a friend from Montreal. All in all a wonderful stop over.

I am now in Bali, please excuse the intermittent posts, we are understandably very very busy.

This is it, 6 hours and counting.
A huge thanks goes out to everyone that has helped me get off the ground, literally. Especially to the folks at Aventure Studio, the best photographers in Montreal and my adopted family here. Be sure to check out their newly developed website.

It is snowing and slushy in Montreal, a great time to move on out.

Only five more days…..

The final preparations are under way for my participation with the Canadian Youth Delegation at COP 13.

The world’s attention will be on Bali this December at the United Nation’s Climate Change Conference (COP13). A critical time has arrived in the international negotiation process for climate change. What happens in Bali will define how climate change will be addressed when the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012.

Please stay tuned for more updates and subsequent photography travels around the world.

Cheers,

R