The latest Journal Entries from LornaRose at Footstops.com en-us Fri, 20 Jun 2008 05:16:24 -0700 Copyright 2008, Bryan Rite @ Footstops.com Fri, 20 Jun 2008 05:16:24 -0700 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 240 http://www.footstops.com/lornarose/ Just in case anyone is still reading this, I've been told I should finish off the 'story'! I took a bus to Kathmandu. Although the distance is only 200km (about) the journey takes between 7 and 16 hours depending on road condi... Read More at Footstops.com http://www.footstops.com/lornarose/blog/5130/ http://www.footstops.com/lornarose/blog/5130/ Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:44:54 -0700 A couple of weeks ago I read a book that Kelly lent us called Leaving Microsoft to Change the World. It was about a man who worked for Microsoft, he went trekking in the Annapurna himalayas (around Pokhara) and got the chance to visit a mountain s... Read More at Footstops.com http://www.footstops.com/lornarose/blog/4771/ http://www.footstops.com/lornarose/blog/4771/ Tue, 13 May 2008 02:08:00 -0700 Friday was my last day at work. The last two weeks have been a little different as around half the children left and about 6 new ones came, leaving us with only 18 if they all turned up. I'm not sure why so many children left. It was the star... Read More at Footstops.com http://www.footstops.com/lornarose/blog/4770/ http://www.footstops.com/lornarose/blog/4770/ Tue, 13 May 2008 01:29:54 -0700 Kelly had a brilliant idea for Saskia'a last weekend. She suggested that we do an Paddle Nepal rafting trip which took us part way to Kathmandu so Saskia could then go on the Kathmandu and we could come back. The river was the Seti which is a... Read More at Footstops.com http://www.footstops.com/lornarose/blog/4722/ http://www.footstops.com/lornarose/blog/4722/ Sat, 10 May 2008 03:43:50 -0700 Last week I had a week off from my placement due to what Kelly calls 'the swiss invasion'. 15 people from switzerland were descending on the Indreni Ministry (where the day care is) for a week. They are apparently there to train the lead... Read More at Footstops.com http://www.footstops.com/lornarose/blog/4587/ http://www.footstops.com/lornarose/blog/4587/ Sat, 26 Apr 2008 20:47:58 -0700 I've finally got round to blogging about my placement! The Rainbow Cay Care centre is for 1 to 5 year olds. Its aim is to care for children from 10am to 4pm so that their parents can work. There are about 28 children at the day care. It... Read More at Footstops.com http://www.footstops.com/lornarose/blog/4567/ http://www.footstops.com/lornarose/blog/4567/ Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:20:28 -0700 Last weekedn we finally got around to going paragliding! Unfortunately it was quite cloudy so we didn't get any views of the mountains. We'd wanted to go early because the mountians are usually more visible first thing but they adv... Read More at Footstops.com http://www.footstops.com/lornarose/blog/4554/ http://www.footstops.com/lornarose/blog/4554/ Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:29:37 -0700 With the elections and Nepali new year (13th April) there were national holidays all over the place so Saskia and I decided to make the most of it and go trekking. We did a 4-day trek to Poon Hill and back, without a guide as basic tea-house treks... Read More at Footstops.com http://www.footstops.com/lornarose/blog/4519/ http://www.footstops.com/lornarose/blog/4519/ Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:24:04 -0700 Saskia arrived on the 5th April which was god for me because Fleur had left the day before to spend the weekend with the teachers from her day-care centre visiting their village. On the Saturday morning I walked up to the Castle Resort (a hotel on... Read More at Footstops.com http://www.footstops.com/lornarose/blog/4463/ http://www.footstops.com/lornarose/blog/4463/ Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:25:27 -0700 The first Nepali elections for 9 years (?) are less than a week away (10th April). There have been rallies and demonstrations going on since I arrived but it's all heating up. For a long time the only party I was aware of were the maoists. Th... Read More at Footstops.com http://www.footstops.com/lornarose/blog/4250/ http://www.footstops.com/lornarose/blog/4250/ Sun, 06 Apr 2008 05:25:09 -0700 Last weekend the three Americans and Barbara left for Kathmandu and, for the Americans, Japan, and Barbara, home to England. On Thursday evening Bindu cokked a big meal and nvited all the volunteers, Phil (placement coordinator) and Kelly. Barbara... Read More at Footstops.com http://www.footstops.com/lornarose/blog/4249/ http://www.footstops.com/lornarose/blog/4249/ Sun, 06 Apr 2008 05:01:51 -0700 Friday 21st March was Holi. I'm not sure what it celebrates but it's a Hindu festival and a national holiday, so no work! We all walked up to the Castle (a hotel on a hill nearby) for breakfast. It seemed to be too early for the co... Read More at Footstops.com http://www.footstops.com/lornarose/blog/4149/ http://www.footstops.com/lornarose/blog/4149/ Sat, 29 Mar 2008 08:31:29 -0700 My first weekend in Pokhara, the other volunteers had already arranged to go to Chitwan National Park so I went with them. Getting there was almost as much an adventure as seeing the animals! First there was a 5 hour bus ride. The road was pot-hol... Read More at Footstops.com http://www.footstops.com/lornarose/blog/4100/ http://www.footstops.com/lornarose/blog/4100/ Mon, 24 Mar 2008 06:18:51 -0700 The bus ride to Pokhara took about 8 hours. It was very slow going getting out of Kathmandu. We crawled round hills in a long line of trucks and buses. When we weren't stopped for ages in one place it was great just to look out of the window and w... Read More at Footstops.com http://www.footstops.com/lornarose/blog/4086/ http://www.footstops.com/lornarose/blog/4086/ Sat, 22 Mar 2008 21:41:43 -0700 The flight to Kathmandu started in such thick clouds that we though that we wouldn't see any of the Himalayas. However, after a while mountain paks started to peep through the clouds like islands. Then we got some good views of mountains (al... Read More at Footstops.com http://www.footstops.com/lornarose/blog/4043/ http://www.footstops.com/lornarose/blog/4043/ Thu, 20 Mar 2008 05:01:01 -0700 The hostel opffered a trip to a panda sactuary. Mel and Steve didn't go cos it left at 7.30am but I decided it was worth it. I think I rather increased my carbon footprint by going as they drove a minibus half an hour each way just fo... Read More at Footstops.com http://www.footstops.com/lornarose/blog/3979/ http://www.footstops.com/lornarose/blog/3979/ Thu, 13 Mar 2008 05:58:27 -0700 Arriving in Beijing was complicated! We weren't really sur where the hostel was. We bought a map but couldn' find it on that. The mertro was really crowded (luckily we did know which metro stop was closest). Mel and Steve couldn't get onto the tra... Read More at Footstops.com http://www.footstops.com/lornarose/blog/3960/ http://www.footstops.com/lornarose/blog/3960/ Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:03:00 -0700 What to say about a six-day train jourrney! It was mostly noodles, cous-cous, amazing views, cold station stops, games, reading, cryptic crosswords, sleeping and a ukrainian speaking toddler. If you want to know in more detail, you can... Read More at Footstops.com http://www.footstops.com/lornarose/blog/3913/ http://www.footstops.com/lornarose/blog/3913/ Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:49:42 -0800 I wrote a really long post about Moscow this morning and just as I was about to finish the computer crashed! So, here is a probably slightly shorter and less well-written version! Moscow was not as cold as we'd expected. About -6 at the cold... Read More at Footstops.com http://www.footstops.com/lornarose/blog/3893/ http://www.footstops.com/lornarose/blog/3893/ Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:42:58 -0800 We arrived in Moscow yesterday evening. It's really not as cold as I expected (about 3 degrees last night). The trains were an experience. We had a sleeper from Brussels to Berlin with 6 beds but it was fine because we were only on that trai... Read More at Footstops.com http://www.footstops.com/lornarose/blog/3780/ http://www.footstops.com/lornarose/blog/3780/ Sat, 23 Feb 2008 23:26:11 -0800