13th-16th Jan

This blogging business is hard going.....today is the first chance we have had to use the Internet so trying to cram as much as i can but i'm on a count down to the scheduled power cut and won't get chance to come on the net again for the 7 days so here's a quickish round up.


13th up at 7am - opened my window and greeted by the most spectacular view of the valley - i truley feel blessed to be here - despite the culture shock........

Curried cauliflower, rice and Dal for breakfast at 8am, testing............

Off to work for 9.30 at the school - we dug and shifted masses of dirt, bricks and soil and also dug out and moved some massive boulders. We went for 'Tiffin' (lunch) at the cafe then back to work for 2....we worked till 3 then nipped home to get cleaned up (baby wipe shower as my family don't have a bathroom).

We went back to school for our first Nepali language lesson - this was just nuts and we all lost the plot - think the teacher was overley optimistic about our knowledge of English never mind Nepali!!

Back home for 6pm, Dal Bhat and curried cauliflower and spinach for tea (think you're getting the idea now about my diet).


We worked on the school again on the 14th - same thing really, felt good though as managed to get 11 1/2 hrs sleep and didn't wake up once till 8am. Curry Cauliflower once again for breakfast!
Had a FREEEZING cold shower after work - intense!

15th - Apparently there was supposed to be a solar eclipse on the 15th - it was all a little disappointing though and aside the sun light going slightly dull for around 10 mins nothing really happened.
Only my Bhuha was home tonight as my brother and sister in law went to visit family and Amma was away to China to bath in a river! Was crazy as Bhuha speaks no English at all - we got by though on sign language!