Week 5 in Sirutar!.....The week of Teej Festival On Monday we visited Maiti Nepal along with Lamatar (The other group of volunteers in Nepal ). The place was amazing. It brought tears to my eyes. Maiti Nepal in Nepali means "mothers home". It was founded in 1993 as a non-profit, child rights and women rights organisation to find sustainable solutions to issues related to trafficing. The work they do is amazing. They are involved in the protection, resc...

Week 4 in Sirutar! :) What a week eh guys :) This week we didn't get much work done because of the events that were planned for during the week and again because of the damn rain. We worked for only about a day and a hlaf. We continued to mix cement for the floors and the walls of the school. The boys finally got the tree trunk out. Well done lads! James took ill this week and had to go to hospital so we were all pretty worried but hes all good now and is back ...

Week 3 in Sirutar! :) Workwise this week we continued to mix sand, gravel and water to make concrete which was laid down over the cobbled floor we made from bricks last week. You wouldn't believe how relaxing making cement is, especially when you add the water. Its like making a volcano. When we finished a floor we were allowed to put our names and handprints in the cement. I was excited by this because if I come back in a few years I could see this in the finis...

Week 2 in Sirutar! :) We got alot of work done this week on the project site. We began with clearing ALOT of wood from the school building site, which took us about a day and a half. While I was doing this two local school children came up to me and asked for a hand shake and then kissed my hand. I was like awww. After we cleared the wood we began levelling ground by removing soil so the floors could be put down. We then collected bricks and brought them to the ...

Week 1 in Sirutar! We left Kathmandu and arrived in Sirutar which is the village we are staying and working in. We were all excited and nervous to be meeting the families we would be living with. My host family are really nice. I have a sister (24), brother (30), sister in law (22) and a mother, so im the youngest for a change. My mother came to meet me off the bus. She doesn't speak much english. Our conversations involve her speaking nepali, me speaking englis...