Despite my fear that I’d somehow not be able to
live without my phone – I’ve survived to tell the tale and it’s thanks to the
BBOXX.
When I ask
people what they miss when they’re on holiday, most people reply with the usual home
comforts; tea, their bed, food. For me, in Nepal, it was electricity and wifi.
Now don’t get me wrong- Nepal has come on leaps
and bounds since my last visit and seems light-years ahead of the country I remember from my early childhood. But it still has its problems;
one of them being stable, reliable electricity.
As soon as I landed there were some issues. My
phone had died about six hours into the journey, which meant there was no way of
contacting my mum, who was picking me up. I don’t know our home phone
number in Nepal, and even if I did, I had no money whatsoever on me to call it. Not the
ideal start to the holiday. Luckily for me, she’s even more nervous about me travelling than I am so had been waiting at the airport for several hours. First
panic over.
As we drive
to the house from the airport, I can see that one half of the road is blacked
out – power cuts. My mum tells me that parts of the city black out at different
times, sometimes it’s houses a few metres apart that do or don’t have electricity
for a night.
The first
morning- 6am- knock, knock, knock. It’s my mum, she’s eager to see the BBOXX, or
should I say charge her phone. Bleary-eyed and rather reluctantly, I get up so
we can set it up.
The first thing that became apparent was that there
are lots of bits and bobs (this is the correct technical term). Now this is
when alarms bells start going off, as my mother and I are the least techy people
I know. However, it was actually surprisingly easy to set up and use. So if
you’re as incapable as me when it comes to technology, then don’t fear- this is
easy peasy…once you read the instructions.
So now we
have our phones charged, the next issue is wifi. There is none at my
grandparents' house so there’s not much I can do with my phone expect turn it
on, play angry birds and hope someone texts me…all I can say is it was a long
two weeks.
