Photo: The Rotten One

Tee is a Californian girl and a fellow blogger that decided to wander the world, so she moved to Germany and backpacked Europe for a while. But that’s not why I’m writing this post. A month ago, she began a new life adventure when she boarded a flight to Kathmandu, Nepal with a small backpack. She began volunteering as a teacher like many other travelers do and started to settle into her new life.

Now, I’m sure that you’re aware of that Nepal were struck by an 7.8-magnitude earthquake a few weeks ago, followed by another 7.3- magnitude quake a few days ago. Thousands of people are dead, many more have lost their homes and the entire infrastructure have taken a big hit.

Media has been filled with photos and news from Nepal, but it’s easy to feel distanced to it all because it just feels so far away. But it was not a distanced event for Tee that all of the suddenly found herself in the middle of a natural disaster. She experienced it first hand and could see the effects everywhere she looked: on the people she met and the streets she walked. Her blog post Living Through the Nepal Earthquake is heartbreaking and amazing at the same time. It gives us readers a close look at how the earthquake has affected the small villages that is normally forgotten by the media. It also gives a real and intimate day-by-day account of the events that unfolded after the earthquake.

It’s a really fantastic (and frightening) blog post and it’s something that I urge all of you to read. It will only take a few minutes of your time and trust me, it will be worth it.