Life Goes On, and on, and on...

Still at it, working away like busy bees. Spent a lot of productive time working with Khampha. The CDEA is his baby, and the tasks he gives us are things we can get our teeth into. Set- tasks, actual pieces of work.

So now we are experts in Renewable Energy and Biomass, as we have had to become. We are working on the Asia Pro Eco Project, funded by the European Commission, and a partnership between Asia and Europe. The CDEA, or at least Khampha scored a big one here. A diagnostic feasibility study of RE potential in the whole of Laos. We have been writing most of the documentation for it, from questionnaires and abstracts to quarterly reports.

Next we are to go out and do field studies. I worked on an NGO presentation yesterday with Joe (Khampha's assistant) while Sam went with Khampha to a test site for energy crops. This is great stuff, and one hell of an opportunity to be so heavily involved in. A steep learning curve as always.

Once again things are looking up and we are stuck as what to do. Realistically we will be leaving mid-December anyway to go to Cambodia, and we can't afford to come back to Laos, unless Lotus come up with the cash for us. So things are pretty much decided on that front. I'm sure we'll change our mind again in a few days when some Thai guy pisses us off, but at the moment things are fine.