Namaste!
(That’s all the Nepalese I know lol...well and thanks, slow down, and go)I’m currently on
(in?) a bus on my way to Pokhara. It’s an 8 hour bus ride, but the bus is very comfy
I’m right at the back which was a deliberate choice so I didn’t have to sit next to anyone but I’m right next to the toilet and it
stinks (just remembered I have a buff I can cover with nose with - it’s a bit sweaty though). This bus is supposed to have wifi but it doesn’t so I’m using my illicit sim - I’m so glad I brought it.
Thursday and Friday we went on our acclimatisation trek. It was about 14km each way and I reckon at least half of it was stairs - and my right knee gives out sometimes if I try and step up too high so that was *fun* it was mostly down yesterday, which was way easier but my calves are aching.
Mon-Fri next week we’re going to be at a remote school a little while from Pokhara helping to repair classrooms and whatnot. I don’t really know how I feel about the voluntourism in that, but at least World Challenge doesn’t work with orphanages anymore.
I’m really enjoying being in Nepal but I’m not enjoying the people I’m with. Almost all of them (and one of the teachers) are the type of person I would go out of my way to avoid if I had a choice. They’re so godamned privileged and they don’t even realise it, or they just refuse to acknowledge it. It feels like I’m back in primary school with all the popular kids trying to be popular by showing off their pretty clothes and brand name stuff and constantly demanding attention and it’s driving me a bit crazy.
Also one of the girls went to primary school with one of my (younger) friends that I knew from swimming and used to bully her and my friend would tell me about it at swimming and she was so upset by it and I can’t just ignore that. Especially given she’s the most annoying one here. Seriously picture a stereotypical popular kid and add a toddlers ‘me, me, me’ attitude and you’d have her personality.
Sorry for all the complaining, I need to get my frustration out somehow.
Anyway, happier things. Before our trek we went to the monkey temple (stairs!) and the garden of dreams which were both really awesome.
I haven’t really taken that many, I can’t really carry my camera around whilst walking with my pack, so I’m just going to steal other people’s photos when I get back
Sorry for turning my VCE journal into a travel diary - I actually have a paper diary because our teachers want us to write, but I don’t like writing by hand and this bus is way too bumpy.
Oh! I do actually have something VCE related to say - I got my outdoor ed results back for our first SAC and the first half of our second SAC - I got exactly 82% for both which is a bit weird but it’s way better than I was expecting so yay!
There’s way more things I want to say, but I can’t really seem to organise my thoughts well enough to write it down (and this bus isn’t helping) so I’ll probably post again at some point when I have time.