Dear All, This is Germano, an italian volunteer writing to you from Muthur, a relative small town under the administration of Trincomalee district. Well, Muthur is one of the hundred thousands unknown places in the world which is located in the Eastern province of Sri Lanka; one among the others with its own past and present, unfortunately not a fairy-tale one; hopefully with a brighter future. I decided to have volunteering experience after I had realized that it was time for me to do something useful; that of course does not mean something useful for myself such just working for earning my own life and living in the comfort of my country. When I say useful I mean doing something helpful for others who actually need some real support, doing something to be kept for long in the future. The only thing I knew was that I could offer my volunteer service as an English teacher and that I wanted to do that in an Asian country (just because when I think of Asia countries I think about their meditative and calm atmospheres), so I started my research. I looked in the list of project proposed by SCI and I finally found 2 long term project in Sri Lanka, one held in Kandy, one of the main city in the Central Province, and the other in Muthur; I applied with no hesitation. I didn’t know anything about those places at that time except for some basic geography knowledge of Sri...
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