I've had a woman here from the International Students Volunteer (ISV) based in Chang Mai who's interested in sending a couple of groups (10-16 students) here to do land conservation for 2 weeks.
Unfortunately most of the students don't dive, so that limits me slightly but I've found a project that they could possibly work on up at the Save Koh Tao office ..this is where we did our permaculture course, mooring bouy workshops and fund raisers but as the office and grounds are no longer in use, the land owner has agreed to let the area be turned into a community park so that Thai's, Burmese & westerners can have somewhere safe, fun and free to take their children to play.
There's a little kitchen, area for coffee's, maybe a 2nd hand stall and a great stage for presenting, movies etc and hopefully will close the divide between the nationalilites on the island ...the lady that came up with the idea is Toni, who teaches English to all ages.
The only problem that I have is that the 'ISV' have given me a totally unrealistic budget per person, laughable really. As this is my first big venture and after taking the rep for a free Discover Scuba Dive I felt quite disappointed ..AND after saving her life ...as she panicked, tried to bolt to the surface on the dive at 11mtrs. Oh well, I'll know better next time ;-D
Simon has been busy with video stuff, including helping out with a film shoot for a TV programme called "Jeff Corwin's Ocean Mysteries".
The programme will be aired on mainstream US television towards the end of 2015.
Apart from that, Simon and I are pretty well, we've both got twingy backs, I've got a head cold and we are both missing everyone very much.
JD
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Simon should have arranged for the TV company to pay my air fair out there and I would have ensured that they got the sound right! That camera they are using looks smaller than the one that Simon uses. As for the woeful budget allocated to Jen's new venture, I would try producing a forecast report and projected costs of what needs to be done and then send it to her as an explanation of the figure that she had in mind being inadequate. She probably picked it out of the air anyway as I've seen many times in the past by some project managers who have no idea of specialist areas. I'll put my soap box away now. xx
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