Bridgette Journey
14 days in Nepal- Kathryn Lingley
12083.56 Kilometres away from home, eight thousand dollars later and an adventure of a life time. Would you do it? Bridgette Morley from Hauraki Plains College chose to take this leap. Kathryn Lingley investigates what Bridgette journey was like? How it has affected her? In the end was it all worth it?
‘Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.’
- Andre Gide
‘When the plane touched down in Nepal I first noticed the mountains. They were so vast and beautiful, I was absolutely blown away. I had never seen anything like it except in pictures. The pictures that I had seen of it did it absolutely no justice to what it is really like, it was spectacular. From that point …show more content…
The scarf is white or cream which represents us as kids, pure and naïve. Different actions and choices are different colours of the rainbow. When you get older you make choices and paint your scarf a colour. One we have made these choices our scarves turn black and you can’t paint over black.
The next day was very exciting. We woke up at 4am and put on every item of clothing we had the waddled down stairs. That day we climbed Amadbeblam base camp at 4600 meters. It was slow and excruciating walk, it took around 3 hours and 40 minutes. The air was so thin it was near impossible to breath. It was by far the most challenging but rewarding experience from my trip.’
Bridgette came back from Nepal with a new sense of way of looking at life it made her appreciate day to day things that we take for granted. Simple things such as having a shower or even a clean, safe place to sleep. ‘It was a real eye opener to see how all those people live in such poverty in those villages. It was really heart breaking, you just wanted to help them. It really gave me a whole new outlook on life. I learnt to appreciate every little thing in my life back
12083.56 Kilometres away from home, eight thousand dollars later and an adventure of a life time. Would you do it? Bridgette Morley from Hauraki Plains College chose to take this leap. Kathryn Lingley investigates what Bridgette journey was like? How it has affected her? In the end was it all worth it?
‘Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.’
- Andre Gide
‘When the plane touched down in Nepal I first noticed the mountains. They were so vast and beautiful, I was absolutely blown away. I had never seen anything like it except in pictures. The pictures that I had seen of it did it absolutely no justice to what it is really like, it was spectacular. From that point …show more content…
The scarf is white or cream which represents us as kids, pure and naïve. Different actions and choices are different colours of the rainbow. When you get older you make choices and paint your scarf a colour. One we have made these choices our scarves turn black and you can’t paint over black.
The next day was very exciting. We woke up at 4am and put on every item of clothing we had the waddled down stairs. That day we climbed Amadbeblam base camp at 4600 meters. It was slow and excruciating walk, it took around 3 hours and 40 minutes. The air was so thin it was near impossible to breath. It was by far the most challenging but rewarding experience from my trip.’
Bridgette came back from Nepal with a new sense of way of looking at life it made her appreciate day to day things that we take for granted. Simple things such as having a shower or even a clean, safe place to sleep. ‘It was a real eye opener to see how all those people live in such poverty in those villages. It was really heart breaking, you just wanted to help them. It really gave me a whole new outlook on life. I learnt to appreciate every little thing in my life back