It is very grey today, grey, cold, miserable and rainy. Not at all what I expected of the dry season in Vietnam! My only way of getting around Soc Trang is by walking or riding on the back of Dan's motorbike - neither of those options are very appealing when it is cold and wet outside. Also unappealing is the prospect of a cold shower this evening, how I miss having hot water!
Hopefully the weather will improve shortly and I can go back to only being cold at night time. (Yes I do get cold here at night time. I seem to have acclimatised to Vietnam's weather far too quickly, if this keeps up I will have to leave Vietnam and go find another, warmer country to live in.)
So, enough whinging about the weather (though it is what I do best), and onto more exciting news. I have now officially started working as a volunteer Technical Officer, Communications and Awareness Raising, with the GTZ project ‘Management of Natural Resources in the Coastal Zone of Soc Trang Province'. If you are really keen, you can find out about the project at http://czm-soctrang.org.vn/en/Home.aspx. So far this has just involved a lot of reading, though I plan on editing the website later this week. More about my role later, once I find out exactly what I'll be doing...
I am also going to start Vietnamese language lessons this week. Stay tuned to hear about my Vietnamese language proficiency!
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