In my search for videos about Nepal on Youtube, I can across some fantastic Nepali music videos! LOVE them! Here is just a sample 🙂
The sounds of Nepal…
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Monthly Archives: September 2008
Win a month on our wall in Nepal…!
Finding home…
So, I crave information about where we will live when we get to Nepal – I just really want to know what our new home will look like! For about the first 6 weeks Rex and I will be in training with the VSO Nepal office and what I do know is that we will be staying in the Pacific Guest House. It looks just lovely 🙂 So, for now, this will have to be enough (and at least I have some pictures that will last until we arrive).
I need rabies
I feel like a human pin cushion. It is rather strange to imagine that floating through my blood stream right now are the following diseases: Japanese Encephalitis, Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, Meningitis, Measles, Mumps, and Rubella. Amazing that the human body can fight all these diseases at once!
Now what I find totally amazing is that the rabies vaccination is currently almost impossible to find. I did some quick research and discovered that the lack of supply is based on two things. One, the manufacturer of pre-exposure vaccine is renovating. Two, the supplier of post-exposure vaccine doesn’t produce the pre-exposure vaccine. Amazing to think that there is one company that has the corner on the entire rabies market…
Community
I will be spending the next 4 days in my final Canadian training session which is focussed on skills for working in development. Today we discussed what our meaning of community might be…which raised a question for me. Is community optional? Is the idea of community predicated upon opting into the community or can you belong to a community without wanting or choosing too?
seeking inspiration in words…
“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark
“Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” – Miriam Beard
“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” – Jawaharial Nehru
“To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” – Bill Bryson
“Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe” – Anatole France
“The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” – Rudyard Kipling
Found in a BraveNewTraveller article written by Lola Akinmade.