This intense week involved lessons from 8:30 till 7 every day. As well as this we each had to teach our fellow volunteers two lessons, one 10 minutes the other 20 minutes. It was hard, exhausting and stressful, yet training has filled me with excitement for my departure, which now feels very real , as opposed to just a thing I can bore people about over dinner.
More importantly though, training gave me all the details about the project I will be working on which I will now relay, so if you I have subjected you to these already, feel free to stop reading.
Chris and I leave on the 11th January and arrive in Kathmandu on the 12th. From there we travel to Pokhara, and on to Baglung, then on to Burtibang, a 90 km journey that reputedly takes 9 hours by jeep... Finally we walk from Burtibang to Bobang where we will be teaching. Our living facilities are positively luxurious, made from breezeblocks as opposed to dung and featuring two whole rooms! The school is a two minute walk away and, thanks to funding from a New Zealand charity, has a suite of computers. Class sizes range dramatically, going up to 60 at the largest and age groups between 5 and 15. My task is to teach English and basic IT over my 8 months out there.
Here are two photos of Bobang, more will follow when I get there!
