September 6th at Global Platform Nepal

Getting up at 7.30 is just as hard as it has been all the other days, even though you’re waking up to sun in your face and nice weather. Tuesdays are cleaning days, so we found our brooms, cloths and our ‘all purpose spray’ and started washing every corner of the house. When we were all finished it was no surprise to find Louise downstairs still working on her major project: putting all the board games together. But I’ll tell yah that the platform was shining from one end to the other. So even though you’re all Danish you did a good job cleaning!
After our two hours of cleaning we went back to class where the man running Tea4Free stopped by to tell us about his project working with the street children. He visits different places in Nepal and together with a huge network of volunteers; they serve the street children tea and some of them get a chance to do something different with their lives. A very impressive project if you’re asking me.
The event of the day happed later that night when we had our International Culture Night. All countries performed some sort of song or dance typical for their home. The Danish people sang the nation anthem as well as helping little Norway in a little folkdance. I would say the best part was when we all just started randomly dancing. On at a time, both guys and girls showing of their dance skills hit the dance floor. The highlight would be trying to follow the Nepali girls in their ultimate dance off. That was not an easy task. This arm should twirl like that while this foot goes back and forth this way. As a perfect ending to the day, some of us sat down on and played guitar and sang. It’s not always easy to find songs that we all know, but we sang ‘Summer of 69’, ‘I’m yours’, and ‘Wonderful world’. Thank you everyone for a wonderful evening!