maandag 9 december 2013

What could Koh Rong?

Couple days ago I came back to Koh Rong. Arriving on the boat, looking at this beautiful island, it felt like coming home again. Now I am working and living on Koh Rong for one month. In this blog I will tell you about my first days of being an island girl!


The first day I checked into island boys. I stayed in this place one and a half month ago as well.I hoped to see some more familiar faces, but of course it's a place where people come and go. At first I felt a little lost, I had just spend three amazing days hanging out with my brother and mom. Now, I was on this island, I just know a few people. But there's no one that really knows you, like family or friends do. That's the only thing that makes travelling hard sometimes. In these four months I have met so many cool people and with some of them you have a really great time travelling for a while. At some point you have to say goodbye,  and that can be hard. But new adventures follow and new people. Offcourse I miss people and I miss home, but I get so many things back in return. Everyday I realise how lucky I am to have this experience.
I went to visit the school on the island, because I really hoped that I could work for the school while I'm staying here. There is a small organization, runned by a few hard working girls, called friends of Koh Rong. They organise activities for the Koh Rong kids and they teach them english.
Within two days I had everything sorted out. I really needed some free accommodation so I can survive till January and spending as less money as I can. So I started working in white rose guesthouse, which is right in front of the "friends of koh rong-house". The owner from the guesthouse also helps out at the school so I get the freedom to go and work for the school in the daytime. It's suddenly a very busy lifestyle but at the same time also very relaxed.
In the morning I start at 8 or 9 o'clock. I'm working with a really sweet girl from Germany and we change shifts every other day. We work till 12.00 and then we have the day off till 16.00. It can get really busy in the morning sometimes, since we are serving the best breakfast on the island. I never thought I would like working in a guesthouse/restaurant so much. But maybe it's just because everybody is so happy and relaxed over here.



 During the daytime I can choose whatever I want to do. I can go and take a nap on the beach, swim and read a little bit. (I mean, best lunch break ever!!) Mostly I hop into the Friends of Koh Rong house to do some one-on-one tutoring lessons with the kids. It's a class where every volunteer can hop in and teach them basic English like counting, colors and letters through fun (card) games. After that just see where I can help out, preparing stuff and helping out at art class or anything that needs to be done. 

Soon I will be giving music lessons to the kids! Right now I am writing lessonplans for that. It's gonna be so much fun!!
I start working at the guesthouse again 16.00 again till 21.00. In the evenings it's always very relaxed. I sit down with the people, have a talk, serve some drinks, play my own music through the speakers or play and sing some songs myself. My boss has two guitars so I am very happy that I can play guitar anytime I want and practice some new songs.When I'm done working I go out for some drinks and watch fireshows on the beach. I mean what could Koh Rong!? Life is good <3