It's now been one month since I began volunteering for CRDT and my life has suddently become remarkably routine... a bit of an adjustment after living out of my backpack and moving from city to city over the past five months. Every morning's the same: up at 7:30, chat with the young women at the baguette stand in front of my guesthouse as they prepare my breakfast (baguette and Laughing Cow cheese) and a leisurely stroll along the Mekong, dodging the herd of cows who graze nonchalantly all over the road. In the office by 9, lunch at 12:30 with the rest of the Cambodian staff who marvel at how I gobble up the Khmer food just like any other native born Cambodian. Out of the office at 5:30 and I head to Joe's to meet up with the rest of Kratie's tiny expat community for an Ancho (or two) and Western-style dinner.
The work I'm doing is interesting.... I quickly learned that I wouldn't just be doing the communications and PR for the Community Development Tour; I am also putting together the strategy for developing the Tour and creating policies, guidelines and procedures as well. It's fun and challenging to create a project from scratch rather than come in toward the end to help with the communications. Of course, I'm using my communications background to develop an orientation presentation, website content, brochures and postcards.
Yet, after one month now, I'm starting to feel the unmistakable urge to continue my travels. I have to leave the country by July 10 as my visa will run out. I know by then that I will have delivered enough to CRDT so they can run the Tour by themselves. And I'll be ready be set out again to a new destination.
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It's pretty cool what you're doing Naom, I think Naom of a couple of years ago would be pretty impressed.
Any idea where you're headed next? What about Nov. Dec. sounds like there could be a few of the clan in Thailand, SE Asia??
Hey Shan! I'm heading back to Laos - this time to hit the north, and of course Luang Prabang...
It will be a family shin-ding in December! Noelle is coming out for 4 weeks - Yeah... and of course you and Lisa. I definitely need to go back to Cambodia with Noelle ... but hoping to hit the hotspots in Thailand too..
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