So my name is Shaun. Senior studying Sociology at Southern Utah University. My journey to Nepal is different from these other students that are here with us. I was invited by Shoba Gurung to go after the applications for study abroad at SUU had been turned in. My main purpose in coming to Nepal is to host an open house for Southern Utah University where people can come learn about our institution while here in Nepal. I jumped on this opportunity and it has been a roller coaster to get here in Nepal. Between finishing my courses at SUU, learning about how to host an open house for international students, and just a general focus on the Ambassador side of this trip. Hectic.
So fast forward to May 17th, 2013. Our first leg of our journey was scheduled to leave Vegas at 8:00 am. That meant that we needed to leave good old Cedar City Utah at 3:45 am. Which meant leave my apartment at 3:30. Eck. If you ask my family I am NOT a morning person. If something has to start before 9:00 am I am not a pleasant person. Surprisingly I did great with this. We got to the airport and I had no issue checking in my bags. As we waited for our flight I wrote this blog post on my personal blog here.
I was surprisingly a great airplane flyer. I am gonna go right ahead and contribute that to the numerous cups of Ginger Ale I drank. I believe the stewardess got tired of bringing me cup after cup of it and ended up giving me a full cup of it and also a full can. No motion sickness, I could sleep fairly easily (for about 20-40 minutes at a time). The rough stretch was from San Fransico to South Korea. South Korea to Singapore was easy. I slept the entire time basically.
This picture here is from when we got off the plane in Singapore.
Our flight left Singapore at 8 and I had maybe 10 minutes of sleep. It wasn't the best of things but it was enough. The welcome ceremony we had when we came to Little Angels was purely stunning. They donned us with Mala, a flower wreathe, and Khata. It was awesome to learn some interesting facts about Nepal like they have 10 of the 15 families of butterflies. Who knew? I didn't. The first day was very fulfilling and easy. The LA group understood that we had little sleep and they wanted us to get settled and get some rest. We all desperately wanted some showers to get the airport smell and air off of us.
It is easy to say that since Nepal is my first adventure outside of the USA, all other future trips have a lot to own up to. Our first day we went hiking to a Buddha statue that overlooks Kathmandu (and got it unlocked early for us), we have 2 Nepalese guides our Professor Shoba Gurung and and our Little Angels guide Bhupendra Raut, we are having amazing food, seeing some beautiful temples that have lasted years and years with eye catching detail, and I personally am never going to complain about traffic again and got caught in a monsoon. I will leave it up to my friends that are here to give you more detailed update of our first two days here. I wanted to share my personal experience of flying for the first time across the world.
So fast forward to May 17th, 2013. Our first leg of our journey was scheduled to leave Vegas at 8:00 am. That meant that we needed to leave good old Cedar City Utah at 3:45 am. Which meant leave my apartment at 3:30. Eck. If you ask my family I am NOT a morning person. If something has to start before 9:00 am I am not a pleasant person. Surprisingly I did great with this. We got to the airport and I had no issue checking in my bags. As we waited for our flight I wrote this blog post on my personal blog here.
I was surprisingly a great airplane flyer. I am gonna go right ahead and contribute that to the numerous cups of Ginger Ale I drank. I believe the stewardess got tired of bringing me cup after cup of it and ended up giving me a full cup of it and also a full can. No motion sickness, I could sleep fairly easily (for about 20-40 minutes at a time). The rough stretch was from San Fransico to South Korea. South Korea to Singapore was easy. I slept the entire time basically.
This picture here is from when we got off the plane in Singapore.
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| Bitbull (our Nepali friend), Drew, Justin, Lauren, Jill, Me |
Our flight left Singapore at 8 and I had maybe 10 minutes of sleep. It wasn't the best of things but it was enough. The welcome ceremony we had when we came to Little Angels was purely stunning. They donned us with Mala, a flower wreathe, and Khata. It was awesome to learn some interesting facts about Nepal like they have 10 of the 15 families of butterflies. Who knew? I didn't. The first day was very fulfilling and easy. The LA group understood that we had little sleep and they wanted us to get settled and get some rest. We all desperately wanted some showers to get the airport smell and air off of us.
It is easy to say that since Nepal is my first adventure outside of the USA, all other future trips have a lot to own up to. Our first day we went hiking to a Buddha statue that overlooks Kathmandu (and got it unlocked early for us), we have 2 Nepalese guides our Professor Shoba Gurung and and our Little Angels guide Bhupendra Raut, we are having amazing food, seeing some beautiful temples that have lasted years and years with eye catching detail, and I personally am never going to complain about traffic again and got caught in a monsoon. I will leave it up to my friends that are here to give you more detailed update of our first two days here. I wanted to share my personal experience of flying for the first time across the world.
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