Well, here we are. I've come to the end of my 10 weeks in Nepal and I can easily say it's been the best experience of my life. I came out here with what I thought was an open mind and a fairly broad knowledge of the developing world. Still, I have learnt so much, from other volunteers, from my supervisors and from research completed as part of global discussions. The people I've met, both volunteers and locals, will be friends for life. The work has been exac...

Hello, hello, hi! An absolutely brilliant week here, probably our best so far. Last Thursday we visited the other group of volunteers in Lamatar for a Nepali language contest. We all got war painted up and some of us (mostly me to be honest) really got into the competitive spirit. We ended up losing by 2 points, but I should point out that they had a Hindi speaker on their team. Hindi is an almost identical language to Nepal and without that advantage we woul...

Sappo! Things are swell here as usual. We've finished removing the last of the trees from the playground area and flattened the ground ready for construction. I will miss working on them, it was so satisfying when you sweat for hours chopping and digging and then they'd finally come loose. We arranged all the roots we'd got out on a concreted area so they didn't sink back into the grass when it rained. It ended up looking like a tree graveyard/hall of fame. ...

Hi from Sirutar! Another week of ups and downs here, some amazing times and good laughs but some more sad news. Starting from the top, last Friday we visited Nagarkot and stayed at the Hotel Galaxy (cheesy name or what?!) The Hotel is at 7,000 feet and is famed for its amazing views of the sunrise and sunset. The bus journey up the narrow, winding roads was a bit nerve wracking at times. We also saw a goat gettin its head lobbed off on the way, bit of a shock...

Ello there! A great week this week, lots of bricklaying completed and we got another tree stump up after another titanic battle! On Tuesday we visited the UK Governments Department for International Development's (DFID) Nepal office in Kathmandu. DFID provide the funding for the Platform2 project. We had a presentation from a woman called Rebecca. She was really passionate about the work done by DFID out here, and about Nepal in general. Myself and a number o...