It’s school today because Saturday is Nepals one day off per week. So we do school again today. I take class 9 and 7. I then observe Jayde work with class 2 doing jolly phonics.
After lunch, Dinesh and Manni go to Kathmandu on the bike. Manni will return tomorrow but Dinesh will stay in Kathmandu. We rest and the go for a short walk up to the damaged new hostel. It had just been finished when the quake struck. It’s a beautiful building that will take a lot of work to recover, if possible. It was to board and feed kids from far away or from families to poor to keep them, so they could go to Batase school. There is a makeshift hostel that is currently housing about 10 students, many fewer than before the quake. After the quake, many families took their children home.
I hear one of the kids has a cricket at and ball. So we set up a game of cricket until dark. Boys and girls were very enthusiastic. Even some of the adults joined in.
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