Sunday 2nd November

The group are in Doha airport waiting for their second flight, it was 1pm when i spoke to mark and their flight is scheduled for 6.00pm (their time) so a boring long wait ahead of them!

Got a few pics here and hope to get a video from my phone up soon, am in kathmandu with David S, David R, Bev, Jim and Martin West....And a school teacher from the village..

Tuesday 28th October

The group have arrived back in Kathmandu, because it was all down hill on the way back they did it in one day. They managed to get to roof height with the building.

Some of the group are doing activities for the remaining time before they start their journey back.

Mark has had an amazing time and said that it has been a life changing experience!

Sunday 26th October

The group are doing well, although when i spoke to mark this morning he said that they will not complete the building in the time that they have left, they are above window height and have worked very hard.

On Thursday evening they went to a festival in a monestry which mark said was excellent and enjoyed a lot.

They are set to leave the village on Tuesday morning, so tomorrow will be their last day of building before their long journey back to Kathmandu.

Wednesday 22nd october

The group are all well. The weather is very hot during the day, because they are high up mark says that around 3pm they feel like they are in the clouds! They are waiting for petrol to arrive for the stone cutting machine which was about to run out, they ordered it few days ago!
They all say hello to home.

Saturday 18th october

When i spoke the stone cutter had arrived from Kathmandu and the group were making good progress, they have hired 11 stonemasons from a neighbouring village. Because the stone needed totally reshaping and cutting the group had blunt all their chisels which have now been sharpened.

Mark was about to set off on a walk with others from the group to see if they could see monkeys which live nearby. The village people are lovely and they sound to be having an amazing time.

Thursday 16th october

I spoke to mark yesterday and the group had started sorting the stone according to size into piles, they hit a stumbling block cause they were struggling to cut the stone with the equipment that they took. They ordered a machine from Kathmandu and were waiting for it to arrive. All say hello to home.