Where have I been lately? Just busy with the Diaspora Conference preparations where I was basically volunteering on the pre-conference events. The business trip went really well and so did the Diaspora meet Diaspora event. Now that it�s all over I have my life back again.

It was encouraging to see some of the Diasporans (from Iran) on the business trip taking notes so seriously and writing down furiously all that was said by the guest speakers on our visits to factories etc. I later asked them if they were journalists or were they just taking notes to report back to their communities back home. The answer was that it was purely for their interest.

On a different note, most of the new Volunteers have arrived for this year�s AVC program. Training will commence on Monday and the volunteers stay with their host families during the whole month of training. The current volunteers including myself have 2 months remaining until our program ends.

Apart from that not much else happening, we have clean up day tomorrow, as it�s the first Saturday of the month. I�m also hoping to do a bit of travelling in the month of June before it gets too hot and while everything is still green.