A few of my pictures are available in my photo gallery from my holiday in Borneo. I’ve ruthlessly edited out the bad ones, though a couple of blurry ones remain just cos of their amazing content!
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I’m in Singapore with my Mum and Dad! Yay!
My brother is not here…. Boo….. 
We went to the Raffles Hotel and had Singapore Slings! Yay! 
Mum paid! Yay!
Tomorrow we’re going to Borneo! Yay!
Nick will not be there either Boo…..
Last weekend a bunch of us took a little van up to Moyingyi Wildlife Sanctuary overnight. We played charades, took a sunset boat ride onto the lake, had a barbecue and got up at the crack of dawn to watch the sun rise over the lake on our second boat ride.
It was a really pleasurable trip and was so lovely to be reminded how beautiful Burma is, especially once you leave Yangon and hit the gorgeous countryside.
Photos have been uploaded - just CLICK HERE have a look and please leave your comments too 
I am home!!!
This makes me extremely happy.
The first thing I did was have a cup of tea :) Checked out my ‘new room’ which looks lovely with all its new furniture.
Then, I noticed the enormous bunch of flowers on the kitchen table which Josh had sent. Can’t really comment on this because it overwhelmed me and words won’t do the job… I only wish more than anything that those beautiful flowers had been hand-delivered.
My head and heart are both a complete mess at the moment. But…. I am glad to be home, where hopefully I can find some peace and comfort and try to figure out a way of getting the things I want and need.
A journalist for the BBC, Kate McGeown, has been running various series of articles about Burma and she is currently focusing on the Thai-Burma border.
You might not be very interested in this subject, but as Burma is where I now live and there are some really serious issues here, I really want to encourage people to read the articles so that you can try to begin to understand the terrible things (and the wonderful things, sometimes) which are going on here.
I guess as an expat here, I feel it’s my responsibility to try to tell people about what’s going on. Kate McGeown’s articles are, of course, rather anti-government… but the truth is that it’s difficult to feel any other way when you see this country and the damage that the Tatmadaw can and are doing.
Please read this. I will post links to more of her articles as they come.
Thai-Burma border - medical work
Article archive:
I am alive, and I have met some amazing people the last few days… having a ball and looking forward to work on Monday (I know I know…)
Can’t slag off the people I’ve met cos they are probably all reading this ;) (heheh)
Thinking about a ‘BurmaBlog’ but we’ll see….
I have never liked needles… So *why* am I so excited to be making enquiries into inoculations with my doctor tomorrow afternoon?
I don’t want to tempt fate… but…
This morning, I was pondering (over my cup of tea). It was a beautiful sunny day, just like today, about 2 years ago, maybe a bit less, when I went through a dreaming phase. I had been talking to my friend Lena about Thailand and I’d bought books on it, and on Burma/Myanmar. I was lying in the garden, in the sun, and dreaming about one day, somehow, living in one of these beautiful countries. It was this same ‘dream’ which made me take up scuba diving… it felt like a step towards something I couldn’t easily reach. Don’t know why really. Maybe because underwater, I can imagine I’m anywhere. And it gives me an excuse to be by the sea (*in* the sea, in fact) which I love. It was one of those impossible dreams - like winning the lottery or marrying some gorgeous wealthy man with a heart of gold and spending every second weekend on a mad city break in western europe. One of the things we wish we could have, but know that we can’t.
And now I find myself thinking… we can. Okay, so winning the lottery is fairly uncontrollable. But… I wanted it so badly… and somehow (and I don’t really even remember how it started) I find myself in a position where, if all goes to plan (and believe me there are plenty of things which could go wrong at this point), I could actually be living my dream in just 3 months.
I am so nervous that something will go wrong… that the B*rmese g*vernment will stop the BC from running courses, that I won’t be able to get a visa, that BC will change their minds before I’ve officially signed a contract (unlikely i think, at this point, but you never know). And I feel a bit like I don’t deserve this kind of good luck - BC never take people on with less than 2 years experience… i’ve got less than 6 months. I just can’t quite believe it’s happening and my fingers are crossed so damn tightly in the hope that everything goes according to plan…
I guess time will tell
notes from a small bri-land
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