That alliteration took me a whole bus journey - I'm now floundering for feeble fillers ;o)
Despite my host family still not being able to pronounce my name even slightly, we only have 2 days left here in pepsi cola. I'll miss the family atmosphere, although maybe not so much the constant questions, demands from the children for attention and the 6am wakeup calls.
At the health clinic family planning day is definitely my favourite. All the women come in for contraception and its such a party atmosphere with laughing and jokes (until i muck up one of their Depo injections and have to stab them twice with a blunt needle).
After much insistence from our ten year old Nepali little-sister, anna and I went to the village tailors to get some Nepali clothes made. Either the language barrier was too big to cross or the wee woman was crap at her job - but neither anna nor myself could get any of the tops pulled down past our broad Western shoulders despite numerous measurements. At least i can steal Lynn's clothes in 5 days time when she arrives. Iv now decided my decision to only bring minimal clothes was a bad one. (I recently discovered that Anna brought 3 times the amount of bottom halves than i did! And then she slags me off for wearing dirty shorts!)
Other recent happenings include a trip to a national park (no bears - just alot of thunder and rain), a "halfway feast" at an Australian restaurant where a group of us ate so much food we were fit to burst (and then we ate carrot cake straight afterwards), and helping out with the Sisters of Mercy for the final time. We saw the orphanage the sisters also run, i might raise money for them during my Great North Run - but its time they need, not neccasarily money.
Enjoy the Olympics onslaught on TV, and look out for the 7 nepali athletes that managed to qualify! In a while crocodile.......
x
(pictures show Anna and me on top of a bus, "D-Day" at the orphanage ("De-licing day") and a Sister of Mercy)
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anna wants me to attribute the picture of the sister of mercy to her. There. Done. :o)
Una.x
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