My volunteer experience with INSPIREnepal has been life-changing for me. My first placement was teaching English at a monastery for a few weeks, and it was an amazingly profound experience– I’ve learned a great deal about love and joy from those little monks, and the monastery has become like “home” to me.
My second placement was doing music therapy at a special school for children with disabilities, which has also been wonderful — seeing the smiles on the children’s faces was the most rewarding thing in the world! My host family was very very nice, and it was great to experience the Nepali lifestyle and some delicious homemade dhal bhat! I also took part in some other projects like painting schools and having a sports day for deaf kids.
I have made many great friends and had so many memorable moments along the way, and I feel like I have many families in Nepal now. Maud and Sanju are such wonderful people, and they took very good care of everything for me. I really enjoyed working with them, and I will definitely go back again!