Deakin Group B

Thulakhet Life



We are in Thulakhet and Pame and can come into town once a week - hard to access emails.

Kathmandu was one crazy place. We all had a ball enjoying the cheap drink prices Nepal has to offer, the amazing sights and atmosphere. From wandering Hindu holy men to Budhist monks to the crazy trafic to the breathtaking pollution, its one amazing and cool place. We were very well looked after by Asim and his team especially Chitiz.

Our bus trip from Kathmandu to Pokhara was an experience, it was rough and scary with a traffic jam due to a couple of overturned buses on the road but amazingly beautiful scenery overall we all enjoyed it and many stories have come out of it.

Pokhara is a beautiful and peaceful town the complete opposite to Kathmandu and our 1st night was spent at the Grand Holiday Inn before being split into 2 groups A and B and sent off to our villages. Group A stayed locally to do orphanage work and group B which I belonged to were taken to our villages of Pame and Thulakhet.

James, myself, Nishi and Kwele are staying in Thulakhet, Ryan, Julian, Raymond and Simon are in Palme staying next door to each other. We are all very happy with our host famillies and really love the village life. Before the construction started we all were designated to teach in the local schools, private and government. The four of us in Thulakhet took care of the Resource centre in the village and taught in the schools during the day.

The construction started last Sunday and all 8 of us from Deakin Group B work on it together, the guys from Palme walk 1 hour each way everyday to get to our village to help out. It has been stressfull as none of us have any experience with digging up and levelling a field, luckily with a German volunteer, Thomas who is the engineer of the project we have the direction.

The construction is 28m by 20m, on a very uneven and rocky surface, and our frustration comes mainly from not having enough tools or the right tools for the job. We have 2 picks and 2 shovels between all 9 of us to dig and try levelling such a uneven and big surface, it is a very physically demanding task. We've asked for a wheel burrow to shift bigger piles of dirt around but we haven't recieved anything so far, so we just use the 4 pans they gave us to shift dirt around. I hope we can get the job done by the deadline, it would be amazing to see all that hard work paying off before we leave.

Anyway, we all love Nepal and think the place is amazing and the people even more so. We are all having a blast especially when we arrive back to Pokhara, and the bus ride from the villages into town is an adventure in itself especially riding on top of the bus.

From the rooftop of the world bye for now