And by the way...

I had almost forgotten this picture from Manila, Philippines!
Snow and minus degrees!

Trying to understand HTML and CSS...

I want to learn, but I am not sure if that is enough... I have Dreamweaver and the internet, and it is amazing what you can find of teach-your-self-resources on the internet. So one moment I think: "Oh, that is so cool! I can manage to do that! But the next moment I think: "Oh my God, what on earth do I do when my pages do not behave like the ones in the how-to-do-guide?" And it does not help that my pc-screen is 11"...

Anyone with any good advices?

But it is quite funny to think that here I am in Thailand, on the border to Burma, sleeping on a matress on the floor, eating rice for breakfast, lunch and dinner, using squat toilet AND learning how to make a website! (It is not as if we are in the bush or anything! 20 minutes on our bicycles and we can get whole weat bagels for breakfast...)

The Philippines in pictures

Go to picasa to se my comments to the pictures!
(If I add them in the blog they tend to bounce around.)

How to make a website?

I am happy and well arrived in Mae Sot, Thailand. That is a town on the Thai-Burma border.
I share room with an American girl, Emma. Or, more than room, we also share mattress on the floor and mosquito net. People here are very nice and it is a friendly atmosphere. I have a small problem with my stomach and the heat (35 degrees celcius from 10:30 am to 9 pm, and not comfortable untill 2 am!), so all in all am I not in top shape. This has affected my motivation a little these first days, but today we settled my work tasks here and goals and objectives always helps on the motivation. From today and the next 11 weeks am I going to become a guru on the situation here, learn how to make a website and turn this into a website for this organization. Ambitious? Ehh, yep, I think so. But I am here and they need a website, so why not? And I am not alone; I am planning to involve and talk to as many people as possible. Maybe I find a computer geek among the other volunteers in this area.