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Reisavontuur: Orphanage D-Day: Monsoon madness
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| Avonturier(s): | Booz |
| Continent: | Azie |
| Land: | Nepal |
| Aanvang: | 29 Juni 2003 |
| Einde: | 29 Juni 2003 |
.| he wants to be photographer |  | | or is just intrested in the camera :-) |
The last few weeks have been
really hectic concerning the Orphanage Project which we accidentally
started after a few beers. we had to make
lists , visit the orphanages to
check what they needed, raise the money, check on prices, buy all the
goods (one of the most funny parts) and as final moment had to deliver
it to the childrens homes. Our coregroup exsisted of several people:
Kerry, Odel (israel) Jerry, cameron (canada) adam (england) booz and
yoko (holland) and we were all happilly assisted by other travellers
who had some time joining us for a few days. Since the beginning we
started to have meetings in the pumpernickel bakery and discuss about
things to do and stuff to buy and throughout the whole period this
hasnt been changing. in between the "doing-things" we, of course, had
lots of fun, the nights out after a long day mostly started in Tom &
Jerry's pub and ended ritual in The Fireclub; dancing and jumping
around like idiots. At some nights it was so bad that in the morning
some of us were so drunk that they couldnt stay seated in a rikshaw,
someone even shitted not only his pants, but also the whole
hotel-hallway, the walls of the room and afterwards coaccidentally
dragged another person through because this guy fell asleep in the
staircase (I can't tell names, i will be executed :-) So as you read it
was not only hard work, we really had a nice group, talked loads of
bullshit but also were eager to finish the project in the right way. We
called the project Monsoon Madness, because it really was madness to
arrange everything and because of the monsoon finally started in a
right way, bringing huge rainshowers into Kathmandu. On the 1st of july
everybody, except me, was supposed to do a overland-trek in a landrover
to Tibet (1st july was the date the border opened again) I tried
changing my tickets to jkoin them, but this wasnt possible. I had to
buy a new ticket and would have needed a visaextension, and that was
way too expensive for me. Thing was that we really needed to hurry last
week because they all left pretty soon. Things really started to work
out then, action in kathmandu ! I already informed you about the days
we were buying things but I scanned the
distributionlists I made, so you
can see yourself what we have been doing overhere. The buying days were
really nice but also very tiring, you have to bargain about everything
(we bought all the stuff in local markets) and no one had the amounts
of things we needed. Imagine 2 tall blond dutch guys wandering over the
Kathmandu Chinese Bazar to get 85 pieces of girls and boys underwear !
People laughed their asses off.
Hotel Puskar in Thamel (one of the
cheapest in town and the best quality/price rate) was so kind to give
us a room to store all the
stuff. Once we got everything we picked a day and that day will go into
the history books as our personal D-Day: 29th of june 2003
At 8.00 in
the morning we had breakfast with selfmade israelian cheese at Hotel
Puskar and divided the tasks for that day. We still had some stuff to
buy, we had to arrange vans for transport distributionlists had to be
made and we came up with the idea to give every child
a bag with presents in it. when
all of this would be ready we had to go to Sujan & Usha, the 2
socialworkers. They invited us to have a nice selfmade nepali/indian
lunch. Though our timeschedule was tight we managed to go there and had
a wonderful great lunch, afterwards we really had to hurry to get on
moving. The women presented us some silk
katas, which really gave me a warm feeling (tibetian tradition;
when someone leaves you liked or wanna wish all the best)
| our suppliesroom preparing for making the kidssets |  | | We got a room from Hotel Puskar for free to store all the stuff we bought, one of the cheapest hotels of Kathmandu and it is in the middle of the Thamel District (doublerooms, balcony, bathroom for 150rs) |
| sorting toys on d-day |  | | -- |
and after the usual
photoshootings we left back to hotel puskar, overthere Jerry already
arranged 4 mini-vans and we all started to bring the stuff down into
the little alley, hotel puskar is situated in one of the busiest
streets of Thamel so our 4 minivans caused a trafficjam for about one
hour since nearly every street is a one-way street :-) after we had
stuffed the buses we left for the 1st orophanage at 5 o'clock
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