Julia Campbell, Blogger | | April 19th, 2007 posted by JB under Current Events |
US Peace Corps volunteer Julia Campbell was found murdered somewhere in Banaue, Ifugao Province. It is sort of ironic that her last entry on her own blog, Julia in the Philippines was “Buhay pa tayo.”
One of the most familiar phrases people say here when you ask them how they are is “Eto” (here) or “Buhay pa” (still alive). Never has it had more meaning than in recent weeks here as we recover from one of the worst typhoons to hit the Philippines in decades.
I have written much in my blog lately - mostly because I’ve been busy, sometimes because I just don’t know what to say anymore. When Typhoon Reming struck us on Nov. 30, 2006, hitting Legaspi (my new home) dead center, we all experienced a brush with serious injury, if not death. For a few minutes there, as the flood waters rushed inside my little apartment on Marquez Street, I wondered, ‘Is this the way it’s going to be?’ I’ll drown right here inside my tiny apartment far away from my family and friends?
She didn’t die in that flood, but it’s still terrible because after too much ado, she still went that way, in her own musing, “far away from my family and friends?”
Here are some links of some write-ups/interviews she left online, from GMA TV.
Campbell was a former journalist who decided in 2005 to join the Peace Corps. As she put it in her blog, Julia in the Philippines: “At the age of 38, I decided to step out of the rat race of New York, join the Peace Corps and board a plane for Manila. This blog is dedicated to my adventures in the Philippines for the next two years. Wish me luck.”
Campbell worked in various publications, among them the St. Petersburg (Florida) Times, People Magazine, Star Magazine, FoxNEWS.com, ABCNews.com, and CourtTVNews.com.
While an editor for CourtTVNews.com, Campbell was interviewed as among those who witnessed the September 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center. A transcript of that interview is posted at www.courttv.com.
Ironically, it was also with the same outfit that Campbell wrote, among other staffers, about the mysterious disappearance of a California woman, Chandra Levy, a case in which California Rep. Gary Condit was implicated for allegedly having an intimate relationship with the missing woman. The story is titled Condit lawyer speaks from experience.
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