Namasté
My name is Anja Bundschuh. On September 11, I will travel to Nepal. First time for me in this country and first time for me to be four weeks away from my day-to-day life. This life happens in Switzerland where I am working as Public Affairs Director Europe for eBay International. I spend a lot of my “non-job” time with my friends doing yoga, cooking and enjoying food and drinks, hiking and skiing in the swiss alps. In my “alone-time” I am reading a lot and training my voice with classical music.
In the next four weeks I will visit “Bright Horizons Children Home” (BHCH), a boarding school in Matatirtha, Kathmandu Valley, founded by Marlies Kornfeld in 1999. The school provides a home and school education for currently more than 300 Nepalese children at the age of 4 to 16 years. You can find more details here: www.bright-horizon.ch.
Marlies and I met earlier this year in Bern and it was quickly a done deal that I would spend my four week’s sabbatical (thanks to my employer) helping out at BHCH. I am looking very forward to meet all the children, teachers and staff at BHCH and discover a country and its people. After almost 18 years of working in fast pace environments like media, internet and policy making a welcomed change of pace and perspective.
I start this blog to keep my family and friends and all those who might also be interested updated on my new impressions and experiences in Nepal. Secondly, I hope this way of information transport will provide an additional means for the children and staff of BHCH to connect with their sponsors in Europe. I hope that when I am back in Europe, children and staff of BHCH will want to continue to feed the blog.
Last but not least I have a wish: I very much hope you enjoy reading my lines. Please also interact with me by sending me your comments  as well as your suggestions for facts and aspects about which you would like to read. Let’s create something special together by combining my enthusiasm and excitement with your curiosity – I am very sure that the children at BHCH – for them the Internet is even more mysterious than Sagarmatha or Chomolungma – soon contribute as well.
Namasté.
I am just waiting for your first comments on this fantastic experience and photos from the children.
All the best
and take care
Emmanuelle
By: garault on September 10, 2009
at 7:54 am
It really sounds like a wonderful project for your sabbatical. I wish you all the best, a bunch of phantastic experiences, fun and success in your work with the kids and a complete detachment of what you are usally dealing with. We will take care of the rest
Good luck!
Wolf
By: Wolf on September 10, 2009
at 7:13 pm
Anja – I hope you will find peace in Nepal. Almost 10 years ago, I went up the Anapurna range with my Police buddies and Gurkha trainers. The 22 days spent in Nepal changed my life forever. When you see how people can be so happy with so little, all the crazy bickerings we go through in our daily lives become meaningless…
There is a greater meaning to life out there. I hope you will find yours just as I did in Nepal 10 years ago.
Namaste, my friend.
By: Steven on September 17, 2009
at 3:40 am
What a great project!
Fantastic way of spending your sabbatical.
Look forward to hearing even more about it when you’re back. The photos & blogs will do for now
All the best,
/Fredrik
By: Fredrik on September 29, 2009
at 8:33 am
endlich hab ich geschafft Deinen blog zu finden und zu verinnerlichen, die Bildern zu betrachten erweckt natrülich Heimweh in mir, die Quelle in Matatirth, wo wir jahrelang die Kinder, mit Seife und einem Handtuch bewaffnet,einmal ! pro woche inführten zum gründlichen Waschen (baden sollte man in dem Dreckpool nicht, auch nicht Nepali). Seit einigen Jahren haben wir ja nun eine eigene Quelle auf dem Grundstück entdeckt und der Hygienegeruch hat sich gewaltig verbessert, die Kinder allerdings vermisssten lange den willkommenen Ausflug zur Quelle. Und dann die Tänze, die vor dem Essen betenden Kinder, die Aula voller gespannter Gesichter vor den Aufführungen. Jeder, der dies nicht erlebt hat, hat etwas verpasst im Leben…
Danke für ALLES, liebe Anja, bis bald
Marlies
By: marlies on September 30, 2009
at 9:31 am
Guten Tag, mich würde interessieren, was Sie bewegt, sich diese Frage zu stellen? Kennen Sie Bright Horizon? Danke für Ihre Reaktion.
By: brighthorizonnepal on August 23, 2010
at 12:56 pm