I feel the best way to get started in this journey is to explain how it all began.
A couple of months ago, I received an email offering internships in a spanish NGO in Cambodia. As always, I thought, how crazy would it be...?
Truth is, as most times, I just stumbled upon something I thought was interesting, and somehow decided to follow it. As my friend says: "Just flow".
So I applied with little hope and a couple of days later I did a "job" interview with the organizers. I knew I had to wait 2 weeks to get the results and I was at home when they called me and said: you are in! I started jumping up and down, I really didn't expect a positive response.
Nevertheless, I then decided to start checking the news -which only included border clashes and dead people-, diseases, thinking that I had to change all my exam dates, leave my appartment, quit my job, get vaccinations... And all in less than a month. I even got a great offer to go to Morocco with another NGO. This is just crazy, I thought to myself.
And still undecided I went to the first meeting. There, they started speaking about how we could help, what the country was like, who we would be meeting, and something just told me: "This is IT". So here I am, learning Khmer, wondering about mosquitoes, changing exam dates... "Just flowing". But more on that later.
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