After I wrote my blog post last night, I went back to the guesthouse. Inside the guesthouse there is a small tourist desk where you can book excursions in and around Kanchanaburi. The young woman at the desk had been very helpful with me the day before and so I went to chat with her a bit to thank her. The previous day, I had noticed several spelling mistakes and overall poor writing in their excursion brochure; their only real sales and marketing documentation. I explained how I wanted to help them by re-working their excursion brochure. Due to the language barrier, she didn't understand what I was trying to offer but I did manage to understand that their main office was down the road and the woman in charge was named Charlie.
And so, this morning I woke up a bit early and headed over to the main office to introduce myself to Charlie. She was extremely receptive to my help and began to give me blank paper, a copy of her brochure, a desk and a bottle of water so I could begin work. It took me about 1.5 hours to go through the brochure and clean it up. Then I spent about 20 minutes with her going through my suggestions and she liked them. We exchanged contact information and I told her I was open to helping her at any point down the road.
Unfortunately my timing was a bit off. She had just printed off 20,000 copies of this brochure for the upcoming busy season and would not be able to make the changes until next season. Nonetheless, she was very thankful for my help and said she would use mu suggestions down the road.
Thai people being rather proud and headstrong, I wasn't convinced that offering my help would yield a positive response. Now that it has, I will continue to offer up help as I continue my trip.
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