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Today is a special day on the Hindu and Buddhist calendar so there are celebrations happening all day at the school. In the morning we take part in a Hindu ceremony, which involved us all getting tikas (red dot on the forehead). Some of the locals come in to take part. The views today areContinue reading “Saturday 13 February 2016”

Life is very simple in the villages of Nepal. Food is grown on the layered farms that hug the sides of the mountains. Cows, goats, buffalo and chickens supplement the diet. Kids entertain themselves with simple hand-made toys, or communal games that I’ve not seen before.  Electricity is lined in from Kathmandu I think, onContinue reading “Thursday 11 February 2016”

I discover at breakfast that today is another holiday. A past Prime Minister of Nepal died yesterday so the nation has a day to mourn.  I use the free time in the morning to finish making wickets for our cricket. I found some bamboo strips and nailed them together with solid wood bases to helpContinue reading “Wednesday 10 February 2016”

It’s Tamang New Year’s Day today and it’s a holiday. No school so Phulmaya and Arneil take us on a walk up to the lollipop trees. It’s a reasonable walk with great views. We get back just before lunch. While resting after lunch, Manni walks into Batase. He ran all the way from Kathmandu inContinue reading “Tuesday 9 February 2016”

It’s raining! We wake up to a light drizzle which happens sometimes despite this being the dry season. The girls have a yoga session before breakfast so I join them for part of it. Today is the eve of the Tamang new year. It’s also the eve of the Chinese New Year. I suppose they’reContinue reading “Monday 8 February 2016”

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 inContinue reading “Sunday 7 February 2016”

The breakfast discussion was all about the tremor last night. Lots of laughs and joking. We hear Taiwan was hit hard and lives lost but surely that is a separate incident. We hear there were injuries in Kathmandu with people jumping out of Windows and having heart attacks but little damage. News has reached AustraliaContinue reading “Saturday 6 February 2016”

Another day at the school. I took class 9 for an English session. Then helped one of the teachers with English. The teachers are keen for tuition to improve their English, both for them and their teaching. Lunch was followed by an easy afternoon. I went down to the spring for a bath and justContinue reading “Friday 5 February 2016”

 Breakfast is at 8. Porridge, an egg and pancakes. We wander down to the school about 9.30 and the day starts with assembly. Classes line up in their rows and there are some exercises to do. Then there are speeches and welcomes to Chloe and me as well as farewell to Claudia and Lilly. Arneil’sContinue reading “Wednesday 3 February”

I meet the others at Pilgrams hotel. Padmyer (Som’s sister) is our guide and Arneil is Chloe’s porter. We get a taxi to the entrance to the national park and start walking to chisubani. It’s all up hill for the first half and I tire of carrying my pack. We break at a monastery onContinue reading “Monday 1 February 2016”