Freezing in the sun

Nov. 23 2011 (Wednesday).


Today we had to continue on our drivers of change, which my group had almost finished the day before, so we had a quite relaxing morning :).

We all had an early lunch as most of us were joining the Global Changers to do yet another flash mop in the streets of Kathmandu. This time we had to do a freezing flash mop at a place in Kathmandu that we do not know the name of, but it was by a white tower. Our task seemed easy beforehand; we just had to stand completely still for five minutes with a plastic bag on our heads. However, standing in the sun was a bit warmer than first anticipated, and running noses and sweat showing on our faces made it all a bit challenging to freeze. In the end it all seemed to have gone pretty well, even though a lot of us did not find the most comfortable freezing position; putting all your weight on one leg is not a good idea when you have to do it for five minutes!

When we stopped freezing we had to hand out flyers about the message; bring your own bag and do not use plastic bags, and even though the actual number of flyers were limited we could see that we have made a lot of attention in the street. A lot of people came to ask what we were doing and where we came from, even when we had left our “freezing place” and just waited for our bus.
After waiting for the bus for what felt like half an hour we were finally on our way back to the platform.

Back at the platform we firstly had to send Kathrine to the doctor as she was worried about her health - but do not worry, nobody dies in this story. After sending Kathrine to the doctor we had to do some research on human rights, which were done with varying degrees of dignity (I must admit that I for one did not have the full concentration to do a very good job on that assignment).
After one and a half hour of “work” Kathrine and Mette-Maria came back from the doctor - still alive but also still sick. The good news was that her illness was not that serious. Hopefully she will be well again in a couple of days.

Kristoffer