Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Kev In Nepal: Day 1

So because travel days are so confusing to keep track of, I've decided to start numbering my days in Nepal starting with today's video. This video is day 1 (which I guess makes the days of travel negative days?) But this here video is my first FULL day in Nepal. You may watch now.

Friday, January 27, 2012

Kev In Nepal: Travel & Arrival

This here video would be a recap of my travel to and arrival in the lovely Kathmandu. Oh, spoiler alert: I do eventually arrive at my destination. I hope I didn't just ruin the ending for you.

Apologies for some of the blurry shots you'll see. They were semi-pertinent scenes to what was happening so I left them in. Let's just blame the fatigue of traveling on my poor videoship. And please ignore the fact that I just made up the word "videoship".

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Kev In Nepal

So how about that Nepal, huh? I spent a little under two weeks in the beautiful country of Nepal this January. The 7th-17th to be precise, but with travel it came to about 2 weeks. And simply put, I had an incredible time. I went as a member of a Learning Tour through New Community Project. NCP is an amazing non-profit that focuses on a number of global issues including women's empowerment, rain forest preservation, climate change and all sorts of other cool stuff. My trip was designed specifically to look at the inequalities that exist between women & men in Nepal and ways to shift that. We visited schools where girls are sponsored my NCP and spent time with women who are attempting to make a living without depending on their husbands. Many eye opening experiences were had.

Aaaand not surprisingly, I took a grip of video on this trip. So I've decided to give you a day-by-day video run down of my adventure in a series I'm calling "Kev In Nepal". Get it, 'cause like, "Kev In" is like "Kevin" and I was IN Nepal... Yeah, now you're with me. And I would like to credit my friend Paul Sparks who also set up a blog while he was in Nepal and titled it "Paul In Nepal". See, his wordplay is more based on the similar sound of his name with the end of Nepal's name. But regardless, I'd be lying if I said his blog's title didn't help me arrive at mine. So thank you for allowing me to be unoriginal, Paul.

So as I am tirelessly editing away all my footage in the hopes of coming up with something cohesive for you all to watch, I'll leave you with the two videos I DO have put together already. The first, a general overview of my trip for when people ask me how it was. This is how it was:



And second, a tour of one of the most important aspects of life: the bathroom.