Well this is my first ever post on my first ever blog...
I've decided to write this as I'm off to Indonesia in 19 days to go and work as a researcher on the Island of Flores.
Some credit has to be paid in all this (both the blog & the Indonesian adventure in general) to my friend and former NFER colleague Kathryn Tomlinson. Kathryn also left the NFER (although she never planned to come back again) to go and work in Indonesia. I think our reasoning in taking on such a challenge may have a little in common although I'm sure our experiences will be very different, but anyway to learn more about Kathryn's time in Indonesia checkout her blog, Flying Fish. Meanwhile I hope you come back regularly and read about my new life too.
About Me
- Karen
- I am taking a year’s unpaid seconded leave from my current job at the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) to go and work as a volunteer for VSO. I will be a head researcher for an organisation called Yayasan Ayo Indonesia, and will be working on a project researching mobility in relation to maternal and child health in the Manggarai district of Flores in the east of Indonesia
2 comments:
Do you think this urge to travel is hereditary?
Thank you, you are kind and I am very excited that you are going to Indonesia too! Not least as it gives me an excuse to go back and visit Flores, as I tried and failed to do in May.
And to have a friend in the UK who can speak bahasa... it would make my life easier!
xK.
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