I've just found out that my application for volunteering in Ghana has been accepted!! I can't tell you how much I'm really looking forward to this challenge.
I've recently moved to London in the hope that I would be able to pick up some project work in the 3rd world country. I registered with www.workingabroad.com who fitted out my profile with 80 prospects of NGO's I could apply with, and was successful with applications in Mexico, India and Ghana. I've accepted a position of Teachers Assistant and will also live and work in the orphanage which houses the students taught at the school, and am leaving mid January for about 3months!
I'm telling you all, because unlike my family I hope that you will be excited and happy for me. My impression I get from my immediate family is that I'm just trying to fill the void that has been left by leaving the borg. This in a way is true, because although I do not agree with the volunteer preaching work that I participated in from I was 3-22, I do appreciate that it taught me that volunteering for a cause which you really believe in can be can be very rewarding. Unlike my years of "ministry service" though, I know this is a decision I shall never regret.
I know it will be a tough assignment, but it's so very much what I need and want to do right now. I look forward to being useful, and being able to impart what skills and knowledge I have. On a personal note I'm looking forward to experiencing, embracing and accepting another culture, even the bits that I might not agree with. Having recently left the borg I find myself automatically responding in an ingrained way to the social, moral practices of those around me. This really disturbs me since the main reason I left the borg was because of the Fundamentalist attitude of the dub faith, which raises them up above all others. I will never forget a part in a Public Talk where it was said that with every year the gap between the world and the dubs should be getting greater, as the world sinks lower and lower.
Luv V**