Jamie Tan from Dublin volunteered in Nepal and shares with us her story:
Fast-forward five months later; with some fund-raising and a lot of research in between, I realized that was it. The time has come for me to leave my ‘home away from home’. I bid my comforts goodbye and got onto the plane to Kathmandu with some considerable amount of expectations in mind. When I got to Kathmandu though, I didn’t really expect to see what I saw. I sat in the van driven by RCDP-Nepal’s local airport pick-up staff, literally being dumbfounded. There were no traffic rules whatsoever and topping it off with the dusty streets, that was my first culture shock!
When I got to the hostel, I immediately made new volunteer-friends who are from other parts of the world.
