For those of you I didn't manage to catch up with before I left it may come as a big surprise to hear that I'm in Malaysia (as you do!) and even more of a surprise to hear that I'm working!! I've signed up for three and a half months with Raleigh International - a youth development charity and I am currently sitting in their head office in Kota Kinabalu, Borneo.
I arrived two days ago without any major hiccups other than a 'Bangkok Surprise' on my second flight. No this doesn't mean a Thai prostitute popped up on the seat next to me, it means I was surprised that I went to Bangkok at all. I knew I was going via Kuwait and Kuala Lumpur but it seems that they threw in a three hour stopover in Thailand for free (just what you need in the middle of the night!)
Then on my last flight I encountered the Asian equivalent of Easyjet. I ended up fighting over what I thought was my seat number but what actually turned out to be the price I paid for the ticket (well how was I supposed to know it was free seating!). I was then so busy trying to avoid all the screaming children on the flight that I ended up sitting next to the only child-free adult on the plane who proceeded to burp his entire way through take-off. I kid you not, he did not stop. He just kept swallowing air and burping it back up. I was planning to move as soon as the seat belt sign went off when he just stopped and didn't emit a sound for the rest of the flight until he started burping again as soon as we started to land - very random.
So aside from a Bangkok Surprise and a windy Asian man, I made it over without too much hassle and have pitched up at a suburban house in Lintas. I'll be living here for the next few weeks to help get things up and running for when the project starts and the kids (sorry - young people) arrive (all 123 of them!). I seem to have a mammoth admin job on my hands but as you all know I am probably the only person on the planet who gets ridiculously excited by ring binder folders and coloured dividers. I was actually awake at 3.30am this morning planning my first file!
I'll keep updating this while I'm still at fieldbase and have access to the tinterweb but once they dispatch me into the jungle I may have to resort to smoke signals or a carrier pigeon to get word of my antics back home.
Keep checking in and feel free to leave a comment to let me know what you're up to.
More tomorrow
Vic xxxx
I arrived two days ago without any major hiccups other than a 'Bangkok Surprise' on my second flight. No this doesn't mean a Thai prostitute popped up on the seat next to me, it means I was surprised that I went to Bangkok at all. I knew I was going via Kuwait and Kuala Lumpur but it seems that they threw in a three hour stopover in Thailand for free (just what you need in the middle of the night!)
Then on my last flight I encountered the Asian equivalent of Easyjet. I ended up fighting over what I thought was my seat number but what actually turned out to be the price I paid for the ticket (well how was I supposed to know it was free seating!). I was then so busy trying to avoid all the screaming children on the flight that I ended up sitting next to the only child-free adult on the plane who proceeded to burp his entire way through take-off. I kid you not, he did not stop. He just kept swallowing air and burping it back up. I was planning to move as soon as the seat belt sign went off when he just stopped and didn't emit a sound for the rest of the flight until he started burping again as soon as we started to land - very random.
So aside from a Bangkok Surprise and a windy Asian man, I made it over without too much hassle and have pitched up at a suburban house in Lintas. I'll be living here for the next few weeks to help get things up and running for when the project starts and the kids (sorry - young people) arrive (all 123 of them!). I seem to have a mammoth admin job on my hands but as you all know I am probably the only person on the planet who gets ridiculously excited by ring binder folders and coloured dividers. I was actually awake at 3.30am this morning planning my first file!
I'll keep updating this while I'm still at fieldbase and have access to the tinterweb but once they dispatch me into the jungle I may have to resort to smoke signals or a carrier pigeon to get word of my antics back home.
Keep checking in and feel free to leave a comment to let me know what you're up to.
More tomorrow
Vic xxxx
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