{"id":4143,"date":"2014-11-11T15:12:52","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T09:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/?p=4143"},"modified":"2026-03-13T22:17:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T22:17:54","slug":"movember-2014-growing-solo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/movember-2014-growing-solo\/","title":{"rendered":"Movember 2014: Growing Solo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"My
My look at the end of Movember 2012.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In the years I worked as an international teacher<\/a>, I spent a lot of my time in the expat bubble. The colleagues I worked with, and the friends I made, were from all over the world, mostly from the English-speaking countries. And as such, I would take part in their activities and events, some of which they themselves had introduced in the host country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Movember<\/a> (or Grovember in some places) is one of them. The activity involves men growing mustaches in the month of November to raise awareness about men’s health and to raise funds for a charity. (Click here<\/a> for more.) (Another one of such activities was ultimate frisbee which I played in a number of different countries including Malawi<\/a>, Azerbaijan<\/a> and Qatar<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having participated in it when I was working at Qatar Academy<\/a>, I thought I would introduce it to my Nepalese friends. In October 2013, I private messaged a number of them on Facebook to see if there would be any takers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, not getting any response from anyone either way, I abandoned it completely. (See images below.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The
The top of the private message.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"The
The follow-up to the message and my own response when I got no response either way.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"The
The only other responses…received in the middle of December!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

So, this year I am growing solo…to show my solidarity with my international friends around the world engaged in this activity and those suffering from health problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"My
My growth as of today, November 11, 2014.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

At the end of November 2013, I offered to pay the application fees of the first five UWC scholarship applicants<\/a> who couldn’t afford it. I haven’t decided what I will contribute towards this time around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Be sure to visit again for an update on the growth and who or what I have decided to give to!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* * * * * * * *<\/p>\n\n\n\n

December 14 Update<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I travelled to Hong Kong<\/a> on November 27 to attend a gathering of the regional UWC National Committees and to visit some friends. I spent two weeks in the city. While there, my blog went down and was inaccessible for some strange reason! So, I wasn’t able to update this page at the end of November!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, here it is, my mo at the end of the month:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Final
Final mo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

My contribution this time will be Rs. 5000 (five thousand rupees) to the Nepal UWC Scholarship fund<\/a>. (If you follow the link, you’ll have to scroll to the bottom the post to see the entry).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Movember is about growth, men’s health and charity!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":4148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[163],"tags":[103,495,141,182],"class_list":["post-4143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leisure-musings","tag-charity","tag-movember","tag-scholarships","tag-uwc-scholarships"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Movember-2014-nov-11-feat-image.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Jbro-14P","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30124,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143\/revisions\/30124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}