Volunteer placement Nepal - Volunteer's Story

Added: (Fri Nov 04 2005)

Pressbox (Press Release) - Dana, Jana& Micheal
It’s 28th of October 2005 and we are just about to start four months stay in remote mountain village. But maybe I should start from the beginning…
Jana, Dana and me, we arrived to Kathmandu on the 14th October. We came later than expected. It’s 8:30 pm and we’re somewhere in Nepal’s capital. All we have is Asim’s cell phone number, so we’ll give it a shot. Not even 10 minutes later we stand in front of our lodgment – that’s how things work with INFO Nepal…
Next morning we are introduced to ‘Happy Home family’, unfortunately it’s just Dasain festival running and so no children are in the house. Anyway we really enjoyed our stay here. Although we took Nepali language lessons three hours a day we couldn’t avoid few funny misunderstandings. Asking for a tea, more rise or saying simply ‘enough’ is worth thinking before you enter the kitchen. Kathmandu is beautiful city and definitely worth the visit. Everyday we went out with somebody else from Info, but at the end it didn’t really matter, because everyone we went with was helpful and made our time here happy. We didn’t even realize and a week was gone, and we were just about to move to Sanga. Luckily our guru Krishna didi was still nearby to help us. She took us to the village and came everyday for our Nepali lessons. These took place in the first house on the hill. That’s how we continued for another week. After morning tea and first conversational part we had morning Dahl/Bat, which was unbelievable tasty, although sometimes we could act like dragons. What else needs to be said, maybe that Nepali people just love chili. After two more hours of vital conversation with our teacher we went to walk around the beautiful green hills and interesting places. Just opposite to our classroom during the clear day one could see Anapurna and Langtang range. In one week we saw quite a lot. Very nice was Yoga center placed on the top of the forested hill. Unfortunately only ten minutes walking down the hill was frequent road with lots of horning buses and trucks polluting this beautiful spot? Even visiting Hindu or Buddhist’s temples was nice. Maybe we like mountains and hills too much, but there you always have white peaks in front of you and green hills to hike. Sometimes I think it was unbelievable that after whole day in the evening we were able to talk to children in Nepali, draw pictures or playing cards.
What a nice time there. Now we look forward to Langtang, but that will be another story to tell.