My training experience at Bharatpur, Chitwan

Around 10 AM of the Sunday morning, I arrived at the REDD office of the Ministry of Forestry at BabarMahal. Having the opportunity to participate in the training on data analysis and report writing organized by Li-Bird and GrowInnova, was a ‘Bon Chance’. I did not need to pay even a single penny. Everything was arranged and included in the training course fee, which was paid by my

agency. Adding to the knowledge I would be getting from the training, I was also entitled to receive the 20% of the DSA. The second reason for me to be happy. The training had mostly the late 30s to mid 40s participants besides few were in the late 20s just like me in the mid-20s and were female.

R-studio

As it is a well-known and well-followed tradition of Nepalese to arrive late, the day was also the regular one. Adding to it, the participants were government officials from different ministries. We were 13 in the microbus so hired to depart to Bharatpur. I was initially excited about my trip but later, the excitement became a torture as the road to Chitwan from Kathmandu is very long and the roads are full of puddles and jerks. My back was straight prior to departing to Bharatpur but when I reached Bharatpur, my back bent like a bow. Why the f*** the roads are so bad even when we pay so much taxes!

Anyway, we reached the hotel at around half-seven in the evening in a luxurious hotel, Hotel Royal Century of Bharatpur, just beside the Bhatbhateni Supermarket. Bharatpur is located in the Terai belt and hence it is hotter than Kathmandu. Therefore, I had turned on the AC in my room all the time. The nicest thing for the evening was, my room partner stayed at her house in Chitwan rather to staying at Hotel. The room was all for me and I was the queen of the room. From the next day, the training started and was for 5 days continuous. The training was basically focused on using R and R-Studio in the data Analysis along with some additional info on Excel and SPSS. Along with that, the use of the different statistical tools for the different sample sizes was another most beneficiary thing to me. While in report writing, introduction to ‘Zotero’ was something I appreciated. Overall the training went nice.

With UNICEF's friend

A couple of things were not nice in the period. Knowing I was alone in the hotel room, one of the Boka Men from the training had asked my room number shamelessly. I was asked 3-4 times the same thing at the very moment. However, being shocked by such nonsense and shameless act from a reputed designated person representing reputed ministry, I could not speak a word. The second time, he did try to tease me but I was rude enough to shut him up. Had it been the third time, I was damn sure to pull his collar and complain my agency. After all, I am from one of the UN agencies who have zero tolerance for abuse.

Narayani River Bank

The things that I liked about Bharatpur were the small taxi tempos as the means of a public vehicle, the wide roads, the evening walk, the morning walk by the Narayani River and all by myself. Another thing is my friends from UNICEF had come to meet me there and that made me overwhelmed. I had walked alone on the streets of Bharatpur on two evenings and was very relaxing. On one fine morning, I went down to the Narayani Riverbank, shown by my friend Bina, the later evening, and it was very refreshing but as the time was moving, the morning was becoming hotter and hotter.

I stayed there for a while and then returned back to my hotel talking the taxi tempo that I loved. I wanted to go to the famous CG temple and Devghat but due to the limitation of time and no company, I could not make it. But there is always a next time :)

With the sweet and bitter memories, I drove back to Kathmandu on Saturday noon and arrived home at around 6 PM in the evening. Exhausted by the long drive, I had to prepare for my next journey to Manang the very next day….

See you in the next travel experience. Hasta la Vista Amigos! Bijous!