Death in Cambodia, Life in America

Robert has now started to learn more about how different life is like in America. I starts to learn that here in this country, people who work hard regardless of social status and birthright, can be s...

3 Apr 202230min

Robert starts to assimilate into America and gets his first job picking berries in the fields. Later, he gets a job as a janitor in JefCo. Since there was no transportation to and from work, he got to...

27 Mar 202224min

Welcome to Season 2! Here are my goals for this new chapter of the podcast. We will be discussing the following topics: What was the refugee experience like? The process of how Robert obsessed over h...

20 Mar 20222min

Robert arrives and lands in Portland Oregon in the middle of the night. He has absolutely no idea what his sponsor looks like, and gets lost in the airport. He ends up sleeping next to his gate until ...

20 Mar 202225min

Ken Swann was a Field Representative for the IRC, was on the field working directly with the refugees in the main refugee camps. His job consisted of helping transport doctors and nurses to the correc...

13 Mar 20221h

John was a stringer for the Time Magazine and Washington post from 1979-1980’s, covering on the ground exactly what was happening in these Cambodian refugee camps. He has had first hand experience and...

6 Mar 20221h 7min

Unscripted: The Power of Storytelling This episode was captured as I secretly pressed the record button during a talk I had with my dad about how he felt the podcast has impacted him. Sometimes when...

20 Jan 202213min

Robert spends his last several days at Longpenny camp in Bangkok dreaming about his future in the new land. He learned that he was sponsored by a man in Portland Oregon, and he was going to be the fir...

16 Jan 202222min