will be leaving for Kendhikolhu, Maldives this coming thursday with NJC on their annual CIP trip. so basically, i'll be something a VOLUNTARILY returning senior. i find it rather ironic that i'm going back to my njc roots (oh dear) after i waited so very long to leave the school! but it was not as bad as i thought it would be, after going for my first meeting and feeling a bit overwhelmed and thinking 'why am i going back to njc? why!?' but then seeing some familiar faces and i get a good vibe about the kids generally and i think we'll get along fine. why do i call them kids? i'm not that much older than some of them! they seem to like being in front of the camera, which is a cool thing.

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kendhikolhu kendhikolhu kendhikolhu! try saying that three times really fast! i think i shall just call it candyland, though it is anything but. anyway i was feeling a little out of sorts and apprehensive about the trip after wednesday but now i am very psyched. will have 10 days to film (i suppose I AM fulfilling my ambition of being a DoP at least ONCE! though without any crew but myself, literally. and i am still not entirely sure how to work the camera which is insane!), and will be teaching baking to the villagers (though out from betty crocker mix because it is too cumbersome to bring all the ingredients there!) and will have time away from the world to think about what i need to do for the next few months i'm still here (i.e, should i quit the internship or not? it is a very hard decision, really).

i still haven't bought a lot of things that i require for the trip. i do not have a wardrobe that is suitable for, well, the wilderness and it really shows. as usual, i am being last minute and procrastinating but i'm really looking forward to this and hope all will be well despite the blazing hot weather, the lack of internet and 'civilized' foodstuffs!

a lot of people assume immediately that i'm going to study film just because of the nature of my internship, but it really is not so. i'm far from having made up my mind yet and i've got two years to think about it (or so i like to think).

+ posted by M @ 5:36 PM