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Joseph Brady writes...

...about his experiences while volunteering in Nepal.

I've been back home in Ireland exactly one month today. I've slotted back into my job and my old life quite easily. I've been working for the past three weeks on catching up with the university issues for the two months that I was away. I have been teaching again and doing diagnostic work for the hospital. Everybody is happy to see me and tell how little things have changed here and everybody wants to know about my "Holiday" in Nepal. The truth is things have changed, it's just people haven't noticed it. I've changed; I am no longer the self-centred guy I used to be in Dublin, my heart is in Nepal. I have become part of a community and a family in Kathmandu. I now live a double life one half here and the other half in Kathmandu. I returned from Nepal with a great sense of achievement. It made me proud to have been part of Cerv Nepal/GVN activities. While teaching our final year veterinary students last week, all I could think about was teaching the clock to class one in Snowland school in Kathmandu, or playing handball against the school wall. I really miss the time I had with the children. I've already started the process of fundraising for my return in September. When people ask me what the best experience has been to date I can safely tell them it was finding myself in Nepal.

Malai Nepal ekdam ramro lagyo, ke garne?
Joe Brady
September 2004