Today was a really labor intensive day!
Storage volunteers came to pick up all the storage boxes at the Yak & Yeti Hotel.
Sitting in the front of the big truck! Up so high on the road, you really see the roads a lot different than they are with a small car.
The traffic police here in Nepal are just amazing and the people are even more amazing for always abiding the traffic control laws. Most intersections do not have traffic lights, all they have are these traffic police posts! Whenever the traffic police holds out his hands in a specific direction, that direction's car would just all stop! It really is an amazing system! Hats off to all the abiding citizens!
The semi-temporary office next to the Dugar office. Thanks to Mr. Dugar's generosity, Tzu Chi is going to have a semi-temporary office all set up to go in the coming days! Super grateful!
Before unloading the truck, the new office space needs to be cleared and cleaned. Thanks to Shrijana for sweeping all the dust and styrofoam pieces outside.
I divided the office into five different sections for temporary storage purposes: medical, food, kitchen, relief goods, and office supplies.
It's time to unload now!
Tzu Chi style: human chain for faster and lighter moving.
It started pouring down rain, but the unloading still needs to continue! Look at how creative and inventive our storage volunteers are with the umbrellas! What an amazing group of volunteers with super fast thinking in problem solving!
Tzu Chi Nepalese volunteers! You guys are awesome! So grateful to have you guys in my life!
Finally all done and sorted according to each category! All the work done a week ago, all the labeling and sorting at Yak & Yeti, definitely paid off today! It definitely made things sooo much easier!
Tea time at Dugar's office! Yummy!
Unloading at the containers!
Tzu Chi has a total of 10 big containers to store mostly relief goods!
Thanks to all the local volunteers, our inventory is always super accurate! It is all thanks to their hard work and diligence in keeping all the records so organized.
The truck left to go to the next storage unit and I sat in the 2nd container to wait for our driver. I had the pleasure of meeting one of our daytime container security guards. She was so cool, we jammed out to music in the container. The 2nd container is pretty much a make-shift security guard office. We jammed out to all types of Indian music that was playing off of her cell phone. It was really awesome!
So it turns out the driver never got the message to come pick me up at the containers haha. After about an hour of waiting, Shrijana helped me bargained for a taxi to take me back to the hotel. It was my first Taxi ride in Nepal and boy was it an adventure.
We negotiated for 700 rupees ($7 USD) from the container place back to the Yak & Yeti Hotel, which is a fair price. Thank goodness we have local volunteers, because if it was just me heading off to hail a taxi, the price would be doubled! Super lucky!
The front part of the taxi! I love how they always put small carpeted seat covers in the cars here in Nepal. They are super comfortable and it is heavy enough not to be moved, so it is a super genius idea. The whole taxi just looked like a toy car, it really brought a big smile to my face.
It was pouring down rain outside and massive floods immediately started to form. One of the roads was completely shut down due to flooding! Welcome to Nepal's Monsoon Season!
The motorcycle raincoats here in Nepal are super cool, because they are good for both the rider and the passenger. How convenient!
Traffic police changes into bright orange rain suits during the monsoon season.
It has been a long day! The taxi driver stopped twice at a gas station to fill up gas! It was quite an adventure. Finally got back to the hotel in one piece! Meeting time!
what an adventure on taxi during the pouring rain!
ReplyDeletecongrats on your moving job, everything was so organized, I will call it a military style.