Monday, July 4, 2011

Day 1: The Journey Begins

Starting today we are going to post daily journal while we are away for the project and here is our very first one!

The day started with a lot of excitement. we were all very excited as it was the beginning of our big project, we were travelling to a new place, about to meet new people and take first few steps to make their lives better. All of us were nervous too. Nervous because we knew the run way was only graveled, the plane was so small that we couldn't stand up straight and we knew that we would have to carry all of our luggage and walk for 30 minutes to get to the closest hotel. To our surprise the plane didn't bump as much as we had thought it would, the plane landed safely on the graveled runway and 30 minutes of walk didn't seem as bad as we had thought! even though our flight was delayed by about an hour, we reached Salleri on time for lunch. We met with Reena Uprety, our local contact person, and planned out our stay in the district. We had sent all the required machinery and fitting equipment through air cargo and carried only one machine with us. We reached before materials so after lunch we went around for some sight seeing. and prepared for our long walk the next day.

The runway we landed on


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