I love Switzerland
Back in Switzerland for a few weeks, I took up residence at the Lausanne Hotel School. As to each of my visits to Switzerland I dread every time. Indeed these are substantial changes for me and my body. My wife joined me last week and the context it is rather nice, it's the holidays. My family welcomed us with great care and attention.
A life in motion, this is how I will characterize as mine. After spending a year in the Thai jungle, find himself taking care of a sports complex in one of the most prestigious hotel school in the world requires some effort to adapt but it is an opportunity for me to watch human beings from every angle!
Here at school there is an association, EHL smile link, which led the construction of schools in Ethiopia, Madagascar and particularly in the capital in Cambodia (Phnom Penh), which is aimed particularly at young adolescents living in landfills. I met Reena Mey in Koh Chang, a young Cambodian woman who grew up in those mountains of garbage, we shared a lot and shared her visit to the school of Cambodian Koh Chang was a great moment of happiness for all. She had told me about this video, I confess, gave me chills in the back: link
Curiosity in this story is that the school built in Phnom Penh was funded by the association "for a child's smile" link in collaboration with the Lausanne Hotel School in 2002, Mey is very familiar with this school. Extraordinary coincidence that to be here. In the following weeks I will certainly have a meeting with them about EHLsmile to share about Sportbuddies. Some students here could guide their work on Ecotourism in Southeast Asia.
Apart hotel school I also work with Sport Nutrition Management headed by Olivier Bourquin and Steve Marsden. Small business innovative and highly specialized in consultancy in micro-nutrition and life coaching. Many ideas and experiences to be exchanged between us. Sportbuddies, after all, is associative project around the movement and well-being! Only the context is totally different. Why not organize camps fitness and Koh Chang with Sports Nutrition Management one day?? Many ideas to fruition. I focus on my current work on the project and Sportbuddies priority.
Funny feeling working some time in Switzerland knowing that my house and much of my life is going to Koh Chang now. It's still a great pleasure to see friends and family. Gradually, as time and experiences pass, things take a direction quite clear to me and important to does not lose the thread and really know where I'm going with my project. When we don't know where we're going, we are always going where we don’t want to go…
Specifically for Sportbuddies I could accurately budget for the construction and maintenance of the future center, something would have been impossible to do without a physical presence on the island. This is the overall construction budget including all sports facilities and an operating budget taking into account all the fixed costs of operating the facility. These budgets are available upon request.
It only remains for me to wish you all a nice summer, do not hesitate to contact me to discuss Sportbuddies, all ideas that can help me realize this project are welcome!