Posts tagged with “Personal”
Exploration and Discovery
Over the past several years, I have come to realize the wonderful world "out there" for me to explore and experience. Over the past year, I have come to realize the wonderful world “in here” for me to explore and experience. I cannot figure out which of the two realizations I am most excited about. I wonder if they are one in the same, I just have not come to that understanding yet.
Happy New Year!
It's a new year! I am looking forward to 2009 and I look forward to another year of living my life for me and following my dreams. This past year I have set out to accomplish many goals and I think I've done just that. This year I will most certainly be doing more volunteering and certainly do more traveling with and without volunteering.
Happy New Year to everyone!
Back to your regularly scheduled program
It's been close to a week since I've landed "state-side" and have been adjusting to the time difference. All twelve timezones worth of it.
I am very happy to be home, in the sense that I can see my friends and family again. The timezones is not all that I am adjusting to. I hate to admit it, as it makes me feel very conceited, but since coming back, it feels that everything is sprinkled with the flavor of insignificance. I guess it's just something I have to learn to adjust with now that i am back in the "real world" of work, bills and responsibilities. Though it does make me really wonder about the necessity for a lot of things, living on so little for so long.
I have just under 1000 pictures on flickr. I've gone through a good number of them already and given them captions and/or descriptions and will continue to do so in the coming week. Going through them is something I am enjoying very much. Reliving all of these great memories of a trip that seems so close, and at the same time so far away.
Day...14
It's been a while since I have updated everyone... and quite a lot has happened! The first thing worth noting, Is that from the 14th through the 16th of August I took some time off from the orphanage and went on a trekking trip through the mountain jungles of northern Thailand with another volunteer. Once I have a bit more time I will go into details of the different parts of the trek, but for now I would like to get to an important bit of information.
After a lot of thinking, I have come to the decision to leave the orphanage and the organization I have been working with. The reasons are personal and I won't go into details here, nor will I mention the name of the organization in this post as to not sully their name. The children are great and are treated very well and the other volunteers have nothing but a good heart towards the children.
I understand this decision may disappoint some, but I hope that is not the case. I will talk with folks back home about the details as to why I left, but for now I will just keep it to "personal differences". Those who have donated money to me via Chipin for the specific reason for me to come to the orphanage and work, I will gladly refund your money if you feel I have not kept true to my intentions.
So... Once I have made the decision of no longer staying, I was faced with another decision... what now? Do I go back home? If not... where do I go? After some thinking and after talking to family back home, making it out to this side of the world is not something that happens all of the time, and I have made the decision to continue on in my trip and see some other parts of South East Asia... and who knows what else. I will keep an open mind and see where the road will take me and make the best of the remainder of my trip. And don't worry... I will be back home on the same day I was originally scheduled to be home... September 2nd.
I have a lot more pictures I will upload given some time and a high speed internet connection. There are some great pictures of the kids and lots of great pictures of the beautiful places I have been fortunate enough to visit.
Sending out big hugs and kisses back home to all my very supporting friends, family and my second family that's always looking out after me at VQ. I do miss everyone very much!