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Getting picked up and taken to the outback of Nepal is always fun… unless you are me!! I am kinda excited but petrified at the same time of going to my placement. I drop my stuff at my host family, where the mum speak very little English and I wonder how this I going to work! After getting a 12 seater bus back from the placement, with around 30 people on it plus goats, chickens and whatever else you can think of, I begin to realize what my time in Nepal will really be like! I then meet my host father, who Is loud, in your face and a little bit crazy!! I constantly get asked questions about the queen and English football, both of which I have no particular interest in! The squat toilet is something to be desired and I am sooooooooo pleased that I am having to live here for the next 3 months… OR NOT!!
I soon learn that my host family were married through an arranged marriage and that they are now expecting their first baby which is great, though mum doesn't look like she is 7 months pregnant that is for sure. And how she uses that flipping squat toilet at that stage of pregnancy is anybody's guess!
SO my first night o sleep is not sleep. It consists of yappy dogs, loud host family man and many other Nepalese who decide that 4am is the start of the day. So instead of sleeping, I am up at 6am doing my laundry. For those who know me well this is unheard of!!
I also soon learn that personal space and 'me time' does not exist in Nepal and despite being asleep, you get woken up in any which way possible, just to have a chat about nothing very interesting.
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