Accepted!
Oct 1st 2017
I got an email about 4:30 on Friday afternoon confirming that
I would be heading to Wellington in just over a weeks time to attend a training
workshop/briefing with Volunteer Service Abroad, a New Zealand based NGO involved in development work throughout the Pacific region. It was confirmation that I’d be accepted to head to
Kiribati as a volunteer English Language trainer. I was elated. The late afternoon sun streamed in through the lounge
windows looking out towards the distant Kakanui mountains as I cranked up Leilani by the
Hoodoogurus.
Somewhere on a South Pacific island
Sits a young man staring at the surf.
His native girlfriend died a death quite violent
A tribal sacrifice made to the earth.
Sits a young man staring at the surf.
His native girlfriend died a death quite violent
A tribal sacrifice made to the earth.
Woo oo woo oo oo…
So what next? I’m off to Nelson next weekend for the South Island Masters and then will be heading to Wellington for a four day briefing which will give me a better idea of what to expect in the year ahead.
I am still fizzing about the whole thing really. I know
Kiribati will be one of the biggest challenges I’ve had in a long, long time
and that it will test me in ways that I can’t even start to imagine but I know
it is what I want to do and that it is something that I’ve wanted to do, and in
many ways been working towards, for a long, long time.
Still a few hurdles to overcome before I get through and begin my role but the process has begun...
Still a few hurdles to overcome before I get through and begin my role but the process has begun...
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