19 days in Nepal, shining in Nepal (part 2)

"Tonight" has been delayed until now haha sorry for the blank promise. Days start to be busy, fully packed with various schedules. However, ShiNepal is doing their best, preparing post-work report for our sponsors and also preparing for our orientation.
Let's go back in time and talk about the times in Nepal. So. When we reaches Nepal, Gautam and the fellow volunteers of Metta Volunteers came and picked us up. We were given a warm welcome upon leaving the departure gate. It made me look forward to the days coming. The Metta Volunteers helped us a lot. Not only did they carry our SUPER HEAVY LUGGAGE on bus (some on the bus top!!), they prepared our drinking water (knowing we might laosai if we drank like them from tap) and accommodation. Most of the time we stayed in Gautam's house. Oh and btw, Gautam is the leader of Metta Volunteers.
Nepal is a country with a lot of power cut. Walking around Nepal, you catch dust in your hair, wiping your face with a wet tissue after a long bus trip is very refreshing. The sun scorching so strongly, makes you feel like being BBQ-ed. Oh and their numbers are different from what we are familiar to, Amy pointed out, "Hey! I can't read their car plate numbers!!". The road condition is quite bad, perhaps similar to kampungs in Malaysia. This might be the aftermath of the quake.

19 days in Nepal, shining in Nepal (part 1)

I've wanted to dedicate a post to my volunteering work in Nepal ever since I made it back to Taiwan but I thought I was a little too public to post it on facebook. So since my blog seldom has visitors, I decided to post here. There wouldn't be pictures, I guess. It's hard for me to upload them with phone haha maybe I'll edit the pics in after a few days though.

Okay.
So this volunteering thing is actually compulsory to the students in my college, it depends on the course you're taking whether you need to volunteer for 1/2/3 years. For the public health students, they only get to serve in their first summer here, then the next summer EMT 2 course awaits. Dentistry, pharmacy and nursing courses' students have to do this volunteering work for two years, and medicine students three.
Fyi, there are actually many groups in our school for this volunteering thing, some in Taiwan and some out in other countries. I'd like to list out some groups in our schools that require an interview in order to gain membership of them, Medical Camp in Taiwan, 柬(jian)愛(ai) in Cambodia, 築(zhu)孟(meng) in India, Thai sweet in Thailand, Calcutta group, Mongolia group and of course ShiNepal.
The interview was around mid of October and I decided to go for ShiNepal (known as The Big Bang, TBB then) and Mongolia group and I got ShiNepal.
And so, we held ice breaking for new members, designed fund raising goods, prepared for our courses that are to be taught in Nepal, Christmas gift exchange and a group trip. All these preparations gave me a lot of stress and I felt a little worried when we couldn't do really well during our course check (when seniors look at us teach), I was reluctant to go. Besides, we were having our EMT course in another place where we had little free time to discuss and prepare for our work, it was really a rush since after the EMT course was summer holidays and then we'd be going to Nepal. I felt that we were not so prepared.
Still we departed. With posters for courses, luggage packed full with medicine and some stationery we managed to raise, we departed.
I feel that this is going to be a super long post lol. I promise I'll update, gonna take a nap.
Maybe tonight.