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Are We Having Fun Yet? (Yes!)
Day 6, which also happened to be Canadian Thanksgiving, saw the group of travellers split into two for a brilliant day of hanging out with the students. One group headed way, way uphill to try to catch a glimpse of Mount Everest, while the other joined senior-school...
Welcome Program
(Today we hand the blog over to Mary Kaye from the Sir Edmund Hillary Foundation, to describe day 5: our first visit to the Zeke O’Connor junior school in the morning and the senior school in the afternoon.) Honored. Humbled. Bursting with joy. Allison, one of our...
Ancestral Home
Day 4 saw us head out early from the hotel in Phaplu hotel for the hour-long drive to Mopung, where the principal of Zeke O’Connor School has his ancestral home. Principal Lhakpa Sherpa was kind enough to host our group and a couple of the ZOC teachers. On the way, we...