Welcome to Nepal

Glimpse of Conference with our Mentor

If you are following, you will know that I was en route to Nepal for Gera conference. In last post, we reached Kathmandu and stayed in a hotel. Morning we all got ready fast and headed towards Dhulikhel, a beautiful place located 2hrs from Kathmandu. Before starting we made phone calls to our home and had proper breakfast because we were late and thought that maybe we won’t get anything when we reach venue. 

Add on to our late timings it was raining when we reached there, so we became all wet and in that condition entered Hotel Mirabel. We joined conference and as soon as we entered, they had break. It was funny. We also had breakfast with them and then rejoined. Our mentor Mam yelled on us, that why we were late.

This conference was organized in a different technique known as dialogue paper presentation. In this mode, we sit in a group and follow the phases/cycles of paper presentation; it was a totally unique way instead of boring ppts and slides. All four of us sat in different circles as instructed by Mam, so that we can gain varied ideas from totally different people. I was sitting in a circle where I was the only guy rest all females but most of them had their children elder than me, bad luck. Rest of my crew members group was also ok, except of Pahadi. There was a person in her group who was behaving as if he knows everything and he is the only one knowledgeable. So Pahadi had a rough time in having dialogue, but mine, Anna’s and Maag’s group were cool, we all enjoyed dialogue.

Once the conference was over we started search for a good hotel, although we already had a hotel sort of booked which was near. Still we thought that we can search for a cheaper one, if we try. So we checked 3-4 hotels and finally booked one and after that came back to have dinner at the venue. After dinner we hit the road so that we can reach our hotel and have good nap. When we were returning our hotel, I really enjoyed the route, although it was only of half km, still the cool breeze made us feel like we are walking in heaven. It was completely covered with fog with little light from street lamp. It was a very different kind of experience roaming in between clouds with no one there except us. We reached hotel and had a good nap.