Shuba Din, good day from Sirutar! Not much to report work wise this week, on Monday we had a day out to Maiti Nepal, Tuesday we were rained off, Wednesday was spent shifting sand and cement and today we are continuing the battle against the tree stumps on the proposed playground. Everyone still getting on great and working as a team. Our trip to Kathmandu last Friday was cool, we met some people who were travelling around SE Asia and had a good laugh with the...

Shuba Din, good day from Sirutar! Not much to report work wise this week, on Monday we had a day out to Maiti Nepal, Tuesday we were rained off, Wednesday was spent shifting sand and cement and today we are continuing the battle against the tree stumps on the proposed playground. Everyone still getting on great and working as a team. Our trip to Kathmandu last Friday was cool, we met some people who were travelling around SE Asia and had a good laugh with the...

Shuva Sanye, Good Evening from Sirutar... First of all, I want to say hello and thank you to everyone who's been commenting on my previous blogs. I only realised this week that people could comment on them and it was great to see all the lovely messages. Here in Sirutar it's been a bit of a hard week. On the work site me and a few of the lads have been concentrating on uprooting some tree stumps where the playground for the school is going to be. So far we'v...

Shuva Din, Good Afternoon from Sirutar! Another successful few days at work. We've finished bricklaying the top floor and have begun concreting the rooms we leveled on the bottom floor. The skilled workers we have on site sometimes have to sort us out if we're doing stuff incorrectly, but on the whole they seem happy with our work rate. We've also been digging a trench parallel to the school to funnel away some of the persistent rainfall we have. Until this w...

Rory O'Reilly Hayes - Platform 2 Blog - Nepal (Sirutar) Week Two Shuva Bihani, Good Morning from Sirutar! Since my last blog things have been going great and the work is progressing steadily. As I said, we're helping to construct a new a school and this past week has been spent building walls, leveling, and other stuff I'm not sure of the exact construction term for. It can be tough in the sun (sunburn on my neck is testament to that) but we get more than en...