Cambodia Round 1!!

I keep complaining to my wife about how bored I am without here. So I guess I don't have any excuses not to write in the blog. My bad! Anyway I am in Cambodia for the next 5 months, so I hope to get some exciting content out there. I am here working with the Cambodian Oral History Project. This project allows people to interview their loved ones, and post their history for the world to see. As some of you may know Cambodia has a tragic history, and these stories are incredibly valuable for not only the people here, but for people around the world. Anyway, I will be posting my antics and my favorite pics that I get as often as I can. I would like to be pretty active with this. If you have any questions about the project or just general questions shoot me and email at tjorgen05@gmail.com.

The Cambodian people are the nicest people you will ever meet. I love having another opportunity to be out here to work closely with them. I am also very thankful for my wife for encouraging me to take this opportunity. I feel bad because I have been complaining about how hard it is to be here by myself, but she is at home working her butt off to get things ready. I didn't have the opportunity to help her because I basically ran out the door to catch my flight, but she is literally the reason that this trip is possible. I am very grateful for her and all she has done. I hope she likes it here!

Most of these will be from my room, I am sorry I am not very outgoing with my camera quite yet XD.

As I am now finding out, it takes forever to upload pictures on this internet. I will plan accordingly with my posts!

I swear this cat wants me dead.


Cute little boy waving to me. I was talking to his dad and he let me take this picture.


Trash collector lady. They collect recyclables and sell it when they can.


This is my bike (see now I am getting artsy)


The Independence Monument (I am not too happy with this shot. I will have to go back and try and get it again sometime.)


Traffic Traffic Traffic


"No Parking"


Again I apologize because so many of these are me staring out my window, but for some reason I liked this picture a lot.


It rains here. Like a lot



Anyway till next time! Hope everyone has been having a good week. As I type this the cat in the first picture is preventing me from leaving. It scares me.

Introduction and Family

For my first blog post, I figured I would give a little introduction about myself and my family. My name is Tyler Jorgensen and I am from Idaho. I am 24 years old, and I am a professional yoyoer.

Yeah it's pretty out there, and chances are you've probably never heard of that before. I started yoyoing in the 3rd grade thanks to school assemblies and my dad. I yoyoed off and on for a couple of years until about 2008 where I started to get more serious about it. Last year I got picked up by my favorite yoyo company MonkeyfingeR Design which I am very thankful for. I now run the social media side of the company.

Any who, another part of my life that is pretty significant was my mission. I served in Cambodia, and it is my favorite place in the world. I wish I had some pictures on this computer and I would show you guys, but I will figure that out later. I have been home for 3 years now.

On August 7th, 2014 I married the woman of my dreams. We live in Pocatello right now, and she puts up with my weird hobbies (kendama, yoyo, photography.) We got married at the Logan Temple in Utah. She really is amazing and I am so happy that she is in my life. She makes me a better person.

We have a little puppy named Blink. She is a lab mix, and she can be a spaz. We still love her though!

                           

Another aspect of my life is dirt bike riding. My wife and I love to go riding. My favorite place to ride is in Moab, UT. The amount of trails that you can ride there is unreal!

The last little bit (and this blog will mostly showcase this) is my passion for photography. For Christmas I got a Canon Rebel t6i. I wanted one mostly to take videos for yoyoing, but I got into the aspects of photography. I learned from the School of YouTube on how to properly use a camera, and I am still working on that!

Anyway, I am mainly doing this to document my journey in photography, mostly for myself. If anyone enjoys this then all the better. :)