Chitwan

I am terribly sorry to have taken so long to write another post! However, the truth is I literally couldn't. While in Kathmandu I was requested by a few of the volunteer directors to change locations and be placed in Chitwan. They had told me that over 100 students in a small village in Chitwan didn't have an English teacher. And with my teaching in Africa background they asked me to go. I wasn't quite sure what to expect but it sure was a village. It was a seven hour bus ride through the hilly region of Nepal we balanced on cliffs and held on to our seats with great fear. I arrived in Narayanghard, Chitwan's largest city which looked a lot like Jorpati. I was met by the Chitwan coordinator in the city and we took another two hour bus ride to a nearby village then walked 40 minutes to my new host families home. Of course I couldn't teach every 100 students but I tried my best. My schedule looked like this : 7:00am - 9:00am village school in Pati Hani 15 minute bicycle ride from my home. Dal Bhat at 9:30am. Ride my bike to Parvatipur (25 minute bike ride) at 10:30 to teach at Paradise School. Hang out and teach some of the coolest students until about 3:30pm. Then every other day do village school in Padampokhari(my village) from 5:00pm - 6:00pm, eat at 6:30 and normally pass out not long after that. Long days but the kids in Chitwan definitely needed more help than the kids at the orphanage. Which by coincidence I am visiting today because I am in Kathmandu because my flight is in two days :(

Anyway kind of a boring talk but here are a few photos. I lost all of my photos from the schools because I took them on a different camera but a friend has loads so soon she can send them to me as soon as she uploads them to a computer. So basically all I have is the fun stuff I was doing!