VSO/ICS programme
After a week training, on 25 July 2014 our group left Phnom Penh to
Stung Treng and Ratanakiry province where we are going to work for three
months. A day after we arrived, in the morning the team had a meeting in order
to set up team contract and team committees (MPR, CAD,Debrief, M&E, Social,
Media and communication). At the night time, the team prepared some stuffs to
welcome our host families who we are going to live with. Welcoming pictures
drawn by UK counterparts as they are at the first time in Cambodia, yet they
could do it well, like how to bow when we meet old people. In the morning,
before we met our host family, we traveled by tuk tuk to see where our NGO is which
we base and to see some places in the town of Stung Treng. Around 10 am we
arrived at the guest house where we temporarily stayed to meet our host
families. We waited them around 2 hours, th
en at 11.30 am our host families
arrived, however, we had not known who are our host family. Host families arrived we said the welcoming
words to surprise them; they were happy. The first thing, the team was given a
game in order to play before knowing our host family. After playing game, my UK counterpart also
another national were provided a piece of paper which was written fingers on it
and so did our host family. We did not know who our host family, we called them
host dad/mom, unless we found those who had the same sign. Spending a few minutes
to find our host dad/mom then we found our host brother, he does not have wife
so we call him host brother, he is handsome, friendly, and he also has his own
small business whose name is Guitar Milk; it seemed that we were very lucky to
live in this host family. We talked, shared some knowledge and introduced to
each other; my host brother can also speak English well, so we did not have any
difficulty in conversation with him and my UK counterpart. After talking we had
lunch together at that guest house with the other host families before going to
our host home. Lunch time was gone, we all were sent to our host family
separately. Arriving at the host home, we felt very excited to be at this host
home.
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| My host home in which i live during this programme. |
First day here, we were welcomed by host family and the best thing is
that we were provided a free of green tea for each. In the evening we had
dinner with host family and seemed that we have known each other and talked
happily.
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| My UK counterpart and another national volunteer had dinner with the host family together . |
