Hey,
Not long left now, last day.
On Friday me and bree got up and went to the orphanage and helped the kids with there homework and played with them then served them dhall batt and walked them to the bus, then went back to our host families for dhall batt, then at around 10am we walked to the Internet place quickly and checked our emails, then we walked to meet the other volunteer, then we walked towards this place where bree had met this man from Colorado, once at the Internet and he had told her he owned a meditation type garden, so we set off to find this place, on route because it started raining we stopped off at a little tea shop on the side of the road and had tea, then we carried on walking and came to a monks a school, and one of the monks seen us and showed us around, and the place was beautiful and looked into the mountains (got lots of pictures) then we found the place which the man owned and he showed us around which was also beautiful and told us about everything, then we walked back and stopped and one of the restaurants and shared some momo’s, then we walked back to where you can catch the bus to the village where the orphanage is, and caught the bus back. Then played with the kids all afternoon which was nice! Then they had dhall batt and we went back to our host families.
Then on Saturday they had the day off, we got up and went to the orphanage and played with them then they had dhall batt, and we went back for dhall batt, then we went to the public tap to shower as there was no water in the orphanage, the tap was a real experience as the whole village uses it and it was good fun although freezing! Then we went back to the orphanage and got the boys and the younger girls to get there stuff ready and we went to the stream where they washed and played in the water (god knows how they did it as the water was even colder than the tap) then we came back to the orphanage and next doors baby who is 7months was there so we played with him, then we went back to where the steam is and the boys played football on the field and the older girls showered in the stream and washed there clothes. Then we came back to the orphanage and played then it was dhall batt time, and because it was my last night they wanted me to have dhall batt there so I had a little dhall batt sitting on the floor with the kids, then I went to the common room with the kids and they put on a little show for me which was so sweet, full of singing and dancing. Then I went back to my host family and had a little dhall batt there to, then went over to brees house and put some pictures onto her laptop.
Then this morning we both got up and I finished packing and went to the orphanage, and watched the kids do there homework and went into one of the girls rooms and chatted, then the kids had dhall batt, then they did a little ceremony for me and gave me cards they’d made and everyone put a tikka dot on my forehead to say goodbye and by the end my face was red, then we walked them to the bus and waved goodbye and walked back to my host family where the taxi was waiting to take me to thamel, bree also came with me. I checked into a hotel and showered, and just had something to eat! Chicken wings and chips, which was amazingly good! Then this afternoon hoping to meet up with a lad from Workington then going for a volunteers meeting at 4pm at a bar, then we are meeting the new volunteers for dinner and will probably go for some drinks!
Then tomorrow I fly home at 5.30pm so hoping to do some yoga in the morning before heading to the airport!
Can’t wait to see you all!
Missed you like crazy!
Love you all loadsss! Xxxxx
About Nepal
The Global Volunteer Network currently has volunteer opportunities available through our partner organization in the beautiful Kingdom of Nepal. Volunteers have the opportunity to participate in a variety of educational and community aid programs. These include teaching English, working in an orphanage,community health and environmental program, school and community maintenance, and a home stay/cultural exchange program.
In a typical placement volunteers stay in a family where they get Nepali food twice a day (around 9 o' clock in the morning and 7 o' clock in the evening). Tea is served in the morning and in the afternoon. Volunteers will have the opportunity to get together with other volunteers and share their experience. You will be able to travel to nearby towns to purchase things for daily use and could travel to other areas on longer vacation. Besides your project work, volunteers can utilize their spare time in organizing the youth and women's groups of the community to do some worthwhile activities like building a smokeless stove, toilet by using local materials, making a soak pit, kitchen gardening, making a solar dryer, garbage management or paper recycling.
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Hey,
On Tuesday we set off back to the orphanage after breakfast but the place where we change buses is actually called patan where the 3rd durbar square I located, we’d been to the one at bhaktapur and thamel so decided we’d go there so went there and looked around the amazingly beautiful temples and had some lunch, then we caught the bus back and the kids were off school so we played with them until dhall batt time which was fun, then we served them dhall and went back to our host families for ours.
Then yesterday Wednesday we were going to go to the budda but it rained heavy all day so we just stayed at the orphanage and had a little nap, until the kids came home, then when they came home because they have no more exams they had there snack (pears) and then we played on the climbing frame and stuff, then served dhall batt and went back to our families.
Then today we got up and went to the orphanage showered while the kids did there homework then I went back for dhall barf and met the kids at the bus and we caught the bus to school, the. Me and bree walked to bistachap and had a donut then chilled a little, then with the volunteer from maintenance we walked to the budda which was quite a trek and it started to rain which wasn’t good, then we went for a bit to eat and a drink, then went to the Internet, waiting for the kids to finish school.
Got two days left at the orphanage, tomorrow they have scho then Saturday they are off, which will be nice. Then back to thamel for the night before flying home, which im about ready for now, need clean clothes and a nice shower! Also going to try do some yoga in thamel as it’s big here!
See you all very soon!
Missing you like crazy!
Lots of love xxxxx
Hey, this morning I got woken up at about 5am because our guest house is right next to a temple, and in the evening and I found out this morning they have a service everyday, with a loud speaker and bells ringing just what you want at that time anyway eventually after I got back to sleep I was woken up again from the other side of the street by a fruit and veg Market type thing, all I could hear was people bartering, even with ear plugs in anyway I got to sleep again and bree came and knocked for me about 9.30 and we went up to the roof top for breakfast, then came back to our rooms and showered and got ready then we went and walked around the town, we set off to do this 2hour walk which is in the lonely planet book, but this pair I’m with are useless with directions (only joking guys) but yeah we were going to be able to do it as, we don’t know our way around, and it’s easy to get lost so we just walked about and seem some more temples, then it started to spit so we decided to find this coffee shop which is in the lonely planet and is meant to be really good, we’ve been looking for it since we got here but never could find it, anyway we eventually found it and had a coffee, which was good and different seen as it’s all tea in Nepal! The after that we decided to walk towards the river and see what we could see, we came across some really pretty sights, and then we saw some young monks, so went to get a picture and got talking to them and they showed us around there place where they are trained to become proper monks, and then took us up to there temple, which is really nice to see, they told us once they had finished there first bit of training here to become monks, they’d go to thailand and become proper monks. After we looked around we kept walking towards the river and seen hanuman ghat which is a ‘cremation place’ where the 3 holy rivers meet, then we walked a little more and seen some cool statues and things, then we headed back in the centre of bhaktapur to ‘taumadhi square’ where our guest house is along with the five story siddhi laxmi temple is, then from there we walked to pottery square where all sorts of things are made and we seen the pottery stove, which just looks like a load of ash with smoke coming out. After we went there we headed back to where the guest house is and I had a look around the stalls then went back to my room before we met for dinner, where we went to a near by restaurant and then we came back to our rooms.
Heading back tomorrow at about lunch time properly, then spending the rest of my time at the orphanage, hopefully while the kids are at school going to see a few things including the big budda which is on the side of a hill. Then back to thamel on Sunday and fly home on the Monday.
How time flies!
See you all soon
Lots of love xxxx
Hey, on Sunday we got up and caught the bus to laggankhal at 7am then met up with one of the volunteers from the maintenance project and caught the bus to bhaktapur, which is another city in Kathmandu, Kathmandu is made up of 3 main cities. Bhaktapur is the old city! So we arrived here and found the guest house which some other volunteers told us about, which is right in the centre of durbar square which is full of temples and lovely old buildings, we had to pay an entrance free to get into durbar square. The hotel is dirt cheap like £2 a night and it’s quite nice. So we arrived and we were tired so had a wee nap then went up to the roof top cafe of our guest house where you can see all temples and the city and the mountains in the background, it really us beautiful, and we had a late breakfast, I’m pleased to tell you it wasn’t dhall Batt, a fruit platter and French toast soaked in honey sounded a lot more appealing! Then after breakfast/brunch we decided to have a wander around so we looked around the temples and the city and took lots of pictures, the we went for a little walk out of the village, which was so pretty! Then we walked back and had a drink at a roof top cafe, then wandered around a little more, and went back to the hotel to freshen up before dinner, then we went for dinner, I had lasagne which was blish since I’d just been having rice, then we were tired so came back to our room, and chilled then went to bed. Hope you are all ok Love you xxxx
Hey, I last wrote on the 21st was it. After that I went back to the orphanage and the children came back shortly afterwards and they just studied really. Then yesterday the 22nd we got up and went to the orphanage and helped them study then we served them dhall batt and we had ours back at our families then caught the bus with them to school and went and used the Internet and got some fresh fruit, then caught the bus back to the orphanage and had a little sleep, then the VSN team cane for a meeting, which they do at all the children’s homes once a month to discuss any issues or problems. So we had the meeting and no real problems a rised. Then the kids cane back just as the meeting finished and they washed there clothes at the tap on the roof of the home, which is fun to watch, then we played and then they had dhall batt, and we went back to our host families, and again I had an early night as I was so tired, being ill drains you. Then this morning I got up and got ready, and decided I didn’t want dhall batt, be user to be honest I’m sick of it! So I had tea, and bread and bananas at the home, then the kids are off school today, so they washed clothes again and showered which is good, because some of them stink. Then we played all morning, and I straightened some of the girls hair as they love my straight hair. Then because they still have exams for two more days, they are now studying, and because there isn’t much we can do we came to the internet and the other volunteer needed to pick [click here to read more]
Hey, On Wednesday I decided to spend the day at the orphanage, do I got up at the usual time and went to the orphanage and tested the kids ready for there exam, and served them dhall batt, the walked them to the bus. The day before a man from the house up the road died because he was sick, and not like us where we burry or cremate them, they just carry the body to the river and the family burn it, which I found horrible, I don’t know how they could do that, the kids pointed it out to me, and you could see everyone having there little ceremony. Then I went back to my host family for dhall batt, and one of my host families sisters is pregnant, and she was having pains and I think bled a little so I waited with her and the family until a taxi came to take her to the hospital which is an hour a way. Then I went back to the orphanage and chilled, went to the neighbours and played with the 7month old baby and then went back and helped the didi cook and prepare dhall batt, then the kids came home from school and we played and helped with homework. Then that night I had dhall batt, and went to my friend bree’s host family and we all watched Harry potter on her laptop, then I decided I would just stay the night there as the sisters weren’t at my house as they were at the hospital, and the kids from my family were stating there. So I spent the night there and woke up at 4am in agony and my tummy was so sore, but anyway I went back to sleep then at 5am I woke [click here to read more]
Hey, After we left the hotel yesterday we caught the bus back to the orphanage however the bus was so full, so the only room available was on the roof, so I said to bree ‘we only live once’ and we climbed onto the roof as the bus set off, which was certainly an experience as we got hit by trees and cables, but we survived, and sometimes you’ve got to live a little. Then we got up this morning and went to the orphanage and helped kids and chilled, then served them dhall batt and went back to our host families for our dhall batt, then caught the bus with the kids then walked to bistachap and chilled at the maintenance and had some ginger tea and biscuits which I’m quite partial to now. Then we walked through some rice fields to godiwari and are chilling in a cafe then we are going to go back to the orphanage. Write soon Love you xxx
Hey, After I wrote to you yesterday, we walked the 45minute walk back to the hotel then spend the rest of the time with the kids and helped them study, then served them dhall batt and headed back to our host families and had dhall batt, yesterday was a Hindu festival and some people celebrate it by eating meat and having henna on there hands but for some reason my family didn’t but I’d had meat for the first time for the night before so I wasn’t too bothered. Then today we got up and went to the orphanage and did the routine then went back to our families had dhall batt, and caught the bus with the kids and got dropped off at a hotel, and have spent the day here, chilling by the pool and getting a tan, then going to head back to the orphanage soon. Will write again soon. Hope alls well! And happy birthday Lucy Love you all xxxx
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Hey Guys, I last wrote a blog on Friday teachers day was so good, the kids are so talented, and boy can they dance got lots of pictures and videos to show you but it was so buzzing to be there the experience was amazing everyone including the teachers were up and partying something that would never happen at home. Then after teacher day we got the bus back with the kids and chilled with them, then because the water wasn’t working a the children’s home, we went to the near by tap but its not very big so me and the old boys walked another 15minutes to this stream thing, full of fresh water and they washed there clothes it was so pretty, in the middle pf rice fields and little thatched houses, the one of the boys took me to a fish farm which was really cool, where they bred the fish and sell them, in exchange I had a picture with the people who own it as they all seem obsessed and they all stare because I have blue eyes and im alot whiter than them, its really off putting but heyho. Then after the boys had washed there clothes we walked back by this time it was dark, but had a real good chat with them which was great, then I helped finish serve dhall batt, as we were late back then we went back to our host families for dhall batt, then I went up to my room to discover that someone had taken my cereal bars, and opened my princles, but I think it was just one of the kids so I tried not to make a fuss, then went to bed. Then on saturday we got up and went to the orphanage and [click here to read more]
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