10th Worldwide Conference of the Global Alliance for Justice Education, Indonesia

Connecting with colleagues and students, past and present, is my favorite thing to do at the GAJE Conference. That was especially true this year when I learned that Abhinov Mishra on my immediate right, who was on my first international research team as an undergraduate at Banaras Hindu University, was presenting at the conference. We ran into each other at the dinner the first night. Nirmal Upreti from Nepal was also there to co-present with me and his wife, Manju. They are on my left. I don't know the two women on the far left. Maybe future colleagues. The rest of the crowd are my Missouri Western students.
There is so much more to the GAJE Conference, and most good conferences, than the workshops, where we get to learn about legal clinic projects around the world. One of my favorite conference activities is the field trips, where we get to see what NGOs are doing in the host country. We visited a youth assistance and advocacy project at this conference.

My co-presenters and co-panels did an excellent job demonstrating our projects in Myanmar and Nepal. Our audience participated in our activities enthusiastically. Hopefully they took something home with them that they can use in their communities.

Bakso, the Indonesian meatball soup, is delicious. It's a common street food. The vendor looked skeptical when I said I wanted it spicy. I sat on a tiny plastic chair to enjoy this while one of his customers who could speak English talked to me. This was a great way to be welcomed to Indonesia.