Amy in Nepal

Amy and Kirsten with local children

Panic
On the lead up to going to Nepal I thought I wasn’t going to get there at all….my passport wasn’t sorted out and things could have been more organised. Everything was left to the last minute and my Visa never arrived till 4 days before we departed, it was a nightmare, I thought I was going to miss out !

Journey
Oh the journey to Nepal was good, it was good because I got to sit next to my pal Harry all the way. Wullie sat behind us and entertained us with his singing- it was such a laugh. But it was tiring, it seemed to take hours and hours.

Kathmandu & Pokhara
Oh it was scary, the amount of people all in the one place, the mess. I didn’t like it because it was too cramped. When we were in Pokhara, Janice from Who Cares? Scotland and Cathy Jamieson and me were out shopping, they were my shopping buddies ! There was a power cut and the whole street blacked out. It was scary, but it was a protest- there were people walking down the street with big sticks with fire coming out the end, there was a guy shouting into a megaphone thing. It was an organised protest against the Nepalese Government. It was frightening, but I liked it- I don’t know why, I think it was because the people there were standing up for themselves and didn’t expect them to do that.

Special Moments
It was really nice going to the local schools. The kids over there were so happy to see you- the people in Nepal are lovely and gorgeous. I made hundreds of pals, you get dead attached to them and you didn’t want to leave them. I would love to go back work over there, it would be a great job to help people in Nepal. We showed the local people how to play our games and they showed us how to do a dance. I was dancing their dance and one of them said they really liked my dancing !
There was one day when me and Harry went a walk and we met some local young people. They spoke to us asking about Scotland, talking about trekking and what they did in school. One of them wanted to go to Kathmandu college, I was so impressed by their English- it was great. That was a special moment.

Embarrassing Moments
I was embarrassed for Kirsten (young person) when she fell, it was hilarious. Don’t think I did anything embarrassing, I fainted with the altitude- so suppose that’s pretty embarrassing

Amy at the Peace Pagoda

What would you change about the trip?
Nothing, the whole trip was amazing. It was great to get the opportunity to go. It was life changing, breathtaking. I look at stuff differently now I am back home. Before I went to Nepal I was doing a beauty course at college, but I am now doing travel and tourism instead- that was because of getting to go to Nepal.

New Friends
I’m good friends with Kirsten who went, we see each other quite a lot. I am friends with 2 of the Sherpa’s from our trip, I talk to them on Facebook all the time. I am planning to go back, maybe with my Mum so she can see what it is like. You can’t explain to people what its like, you have experience it.