Last Update: August 7, 2003 (minor)
Welcome to... Al's Page
Sorry for the lack of updates but I'm a slug and I *hate* these HTML editors. And I refuse to use Microsoft's FrontPage out of principle. I'm now using Macromedia's Dreamweaver with a fair degree of happiness.


Here is a list of things on my site.

It's in a semi reverse chronological order, and may not ever be completed. But I'm working on it slowly.

  • Where's Al? Updated to August 7, 2003.
  • frozenlightning.com is my newest venture, selling opals and other gemstones via the internet. Hopefully to make me fabulously rich and famous. Errr, maybe.
  • There might be a link here soon for my time spent in Kashmir, April-December 2002.
  • This link was supposed to be about the 10 months I spent in Sudan, Africa, working as a Logistician with MSF. But I haven't any pictures scanned in, and I haven't written any text. So it's a collection of emails I sent out during that time. More to come!
  • Some thoughts and photos from my trip to Europe during the summer of 2000. Holland is like a flat, flooded Canada. Greece is hilly, with bits of marble and ruins everywhere. And Italy - okay, Naples, which is all I saw - is the land of cell phones. But each place needs much longer than the month I had to explore.
  • Some stuff from my 9 months in Guyana, South America (as opposed to Ghana, Africa, which is where everyone thinks I went), working with Youth Challenge International
  • Sun, quiet, and good friends in Tobago during a brief vacation after Ghana. Oops, I mean Guyana. 
  • Thoughts and pictures from Nicaragua, where I went to work with Rob Bell of the Fair Opportunities Group (FOG) for a month in 1996. It's a document in Adobe Acrobat format, so you need to have Acrobat v3.0 or later to read it. Click here for a trip to the Adobe site to get it.
  • Annoying stuff about my least-favourite city on the planet so far, Guatemala City. You can read about why here
  • A brief tour of Cuba over New Years, 1997.
  • A bit of stuff from Costa Rica, circa 1994. Okay, I lied. It's not even started yet. 
  • Photos and stuff from the Solomon Islands, where I went in 1993 for 10 weeks with Youth Challenge International. It's short but gives you an idea of what I was doing there.
  • An odd smattering of odd things that I thought I'd annoy people with.
  •  Interesting Links to volunteer organisations, NGOs, and whatever else I feel like putting here. 

And, that's about it. Feel free to email me and harass me about this thing, especially if you find yourself in a photo on this site in a compromising position.

Add an underscore character "_" between "allan" and "aoyama" and change the "at" to the familiar @ sign to send me email. I'm getting rather a lot of shit email these days and suspect this link is the reason...

allanaoyama"at"telus.net