Incoming MIA student Paul Hersh sent along the following photos for posting.  Enjoy.

“Vietnam – Ha Long Bay” – A lonely fisherman in Ha Long Bay, Vietnam.

“Syria – Aleppo – Umayyad Mosque” – Inside the Umayyad Mosque in Aleppo, Syria.

“Cambodia – Phnom Penh – Tuol Sleng” – Building A of Tuol Sleng, with large cells in which the bodies of the last victims were discovered. The photos on the wall are how the rooms were found, with the mutilated body of a prisoner chained to the bed, killed by his fleeing captors only hours before the prison was captured.  Tuol Sleng, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, was a former high school which was used as the notorious Security Prison 21 (S-21) by Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge regime from its rise to power in 1975 to its fall in 1979.

My name is Ana Berenguer, an incoming MPA student, and I would like to share some pictures with you:

I took these two pictures in December 2010 at one of the student contests organized by the Foundation that I manage. The student with the highest score of a multiple choice exam on History represents their school in the second phase of the Spanish Heritage History Bee, consisting of an oral examination with a panel of judges responsible for asking the oral questions until a winner is selected.  We prepared amazing awards such as an airline ticket to take a class on Spanish culture in Salamanca (Spain) during the summer of 2011….You may understand now the happiness of Miranda, the winner of Elementary, and the big nervous of Santino.

This is a great phone pic of Miami way of life: my little boy at the pool the day he turned 5 months, only a few days ago.

I would say the best thing about Miami is its great location: only 2 hours and ½ flight far from great places such as Chicago, Mexico, Colombia…and 5 hours to one of my long dreamed trips: Peru. I took this picture at Matchu Pichu on November 2009, after 5 hard days of Inca Trail. Get away from my camera you curious llama!