Eastward Ho! | The Anxious Gardener
It’s the elephants.
I’m terribly smitten by my journey nonetheless when it wasn’t for elephants, I wouldn’t be going.
I actually wouldn’t.
It doesn’t appear so very method once more that I wrote a publish about lastly taking the plunge and learning for a BA on the School of Gloucestershire. And nonetheless now, too quickly, my diploma is completed; my assessments written, fretted over, submitted, fretted over and graded; and I’ve graduated with first-class honours in Ingenious Writing. In order that’s good.
And subsequent? Correctly, seeing no fast purpose to desert my student-y methods and get an correct job, I’ve determined to take a definite section 12 months… or pretty a definite section month and a half.
And for that, I’m, as Kim Wilde would have it, flying to Cambodia.
I’m volunteering for 3 weeks at an elephant enterprise all through the mountainous jungle of jap Cambodia. It’ll be superb to be dwelling in exact jungle pretty than …
My Yard
…a make take into consideration Gloucestershire model. I’m wanting ahead to seeing tropical birds, tropical bugs, reptiles, crops and flowers virtually as heaps as I’m the elephants.
Sure, I’m.
And after volunteering on the elephant sanctuary, I shall look about me, rub my chin, and do some solo journey prior to assembly up with my brother to journey a bit extra.
I used to be planning on taking my laptop computer pc laptop with a purpose to put in writing down and weblog… when not snuggling elephants, in any case. However that has confirmed too heavy to lug on my as soon as extra by way of rain forest – together with six weeks worth of assorted stuff. However I’m packing my digital digicam and, if potential whereas on the enterprise and on the hoof, I hope to share images of what I see on Instagram. (In case you don’t observe me already on Insta, there’s a hyperlink to my account on this internet internet web page – or a fast search will uncover me.)
And should you’re questioning about my full elephant obsession difficulty. Correctly, all of us have obsessions and specific loves, I suppose. Mine merely occurs to be elephants. Regularly has been. Presumably it was kicked off by Dumbo, perhaps it was Colonel Hathi, perhaps… pfft, who’s acutely aware of what it was. A go to to a zoo’s elephant residence as a toddler? No matter, nonetheless given the prospect, how can I not seize the prospect to work amongst, contact, odor and look after elephants?
I point out. We’re speaking about bloody ELEPHANTS for goodness sake.
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It’s the elephants. I’m terribly smitten by my journey nonetheless when it wasn’t for elephants, I wouldn’t be going. I actually wouldn’t. It doesn’t appear so very method once more that I wrote a publish about lastly taking the plunge and learning for a BA on the School of Gloucestershire.…