A graduate of medicine is likely to become a physician, a graduate of physics is likely to become a physicist, a graduate of mass communication, however, is likely not to know what kind of job they'll end up with. A gap year is a good thing for the undecided, the ones without job offers or the merely adventurous. For Christopher Aslan Alexander all three options may have applied, he doesn't elaborate on the reasons why he moved to Khiva, a desert oasis in the Central Asian state of Uzbekistan as a volunteer for the Swedish NGO Operation Mercy. He was to stay there for two years to write an online guidebook on this UNESCO heritage site and to help blind children in a ...  Read the complete review