Posts Categorized: 2012 Visit

Hi Everyone, Three months of Nepal and on my way home nearly! I left Bhu Po school on 21st March and travelled to Kathmandu.  The journey was not uneventfull.  There was a two hour hold up from a demonstration on the the road very early on in the journey. Women had put benches accross the road to…
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Hi Everyone Continuing my trek to the next village of Jagot.  We had to stop at a guest house just before arriving there as there was a tremendous thunder storm and we began to get very wet.   No chance of a hot shower when I got there, a cold one and that was it….
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Hi Everyone Doing this in the dark as there is no electric at the moment, on battery only.  There is not any electric no hot water, my geyser seems to have completely given up the ghost, and my rechargeable lamp needs charging.  I Can’t even have a cup of tea.   Well loneliness has certainly kicked…
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Hi Everyone Feeling tired today but still so much to tell. I have decided today to talk a little about the excitement of food or not.  At the beginning of my arrival here at the school, I joined the residential staff in the evening meal.  The rest of the time I had breakfast in my…
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Hi everyone There have been many occurrences  since my last blog, needless to say not really disastrous. I have been ill as many of you know as detailed in my last blog.  The cough has only just died off.  But during that time my laptop died, the night of an electric storm here, not sure if that was…
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Hi everyone I am just about OK now to tell you all about my massive adventure over the last 4 days.  Now I am safe and back at school I will commence. I left Besishahar on Saturday 19th February to start my 4 day adventure!   I trekked up to the bus and managed to catch a…
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Hi Everyone Schools out for 5 days.  So here I am having a day off before I get the bus to Kathmandu tomorrow. I have cleaned my little home, done my washing (by hand of course), washed out the shower bathroom, swept my floor with the broom, tided up. Why did all this take so…
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Hi everyone Things are going pretty well here. I have managed to make some inroads into the schooling system here.  After a long time I have persuaded the Headmaster to open the library.  This result was great for me. I achieved this by taking some of the bored children out of their morning English lessons…
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Hi Everyone The end o f my trip to our villages was actually event less, well there were no panics. We trekked down to the bus at about 7.30 on the morning of leaving.  The weather was good and it was a an easy trek to the bus just about an hour.  We got the bus…
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Hi Everyone again, I hope to take you towards the final leg of my visit to our remote villages in the Himalayan region of Lamjung. Further visit consisted of see and the land for Ramans house and also seeing Raman.  I saw him by chance when I was trekking back on my own to the…
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