By Tith Chandara
We are currently on board. Below is Kabul. We can see clearly the desert landscape and ice on the mountain.
On board, Germany (13 May, 2011) – Is this my dream? While I am writing this blog, I am now on board on the Thai Airways heading to Munich International Airport in Germany. I can’t believe I have another opportunity to come back and see you again. Nice to see you!
It’s only one hour left, then I arrive Munich after sitting, sleeping, playing game, listening to music, eating, drinking (coke, wine…) and chatting with friends. Now I feel my eyes are hurt because usually this time I was sleeping in Cambodia. It’s 11:30 p.m. in Cambodia, but 6:44 p.m. here on the plain. I need rest and sleep, but I can’t; maybe because I am so excited again to come back. I am looking forward the cooler weather, European food, the way people walk fast, tram, train, Bus, McDonald, Pizza Hut, DM store, Media store, TV tower, BMW, Audi, Mercedes car… 🙂 What I should miss, people who helped me during my first visit. I wanna see something new.
Along the way, I had seen many interesting landscape. What brings me most interesting piece to see is the desert landscape in Kabul. I was WOW to see snow melting on the cliff of the desert mountains. We have 22 people from various institutions in Cambodia divided into two parts, outreach team and legal team. We are expecting to have a two-week study tour in Germany (Munich, Nuremburg and Berlin) and the Netherland (for only legal team) in the program of Khmer Rouge Tribunal Fellowship Program under sponsored by a German organization, GIZ.
Welcome myself back to Germany. I can’t wait to see you. See you soon. Almost, almost! The plain is starting to go down step by step now. I have to turn the computer off and say “Yeah! Welcome back to Germany!”
Tith Chandara
The Pioneers 