Tried to upload some more pics but doesn't seem to working......will try again on Saturday or Tuesday.

Due to the lack of Internet and electricity combined its too difficult to try to keep a day to day diary so thought i'd write about stuff randomly - prob like if you were havin a conversation with me.....!

On Sunday we treked up the to mountain house which was about an hr and all up hill....got some pics but like i say having problems uploading them.


So each night Praba, my sister gets up around 4am and prepares the first curry of the day - she gives me breakfast around 8.30-9am after she's given me hot water for my instant coffee. She started to let me help with dishes and things now she knows i do them to her standard. Shes only 22 and has only been married to my Brother for 5 mtnhs. It was an arranged marriage suggested by her Aunty. She and my Brother met for 5 mins and decided that they would get married. Praba then had to move to her husbands family home with his mother and father (Tara and Laxmi). She still seems to be adjusting and each day she tell same how tired she is and how her backs hurts - its fair enough though as she never seems to stop. She tells me though that sometimes when no one else is home she has a sneaky 'cat nap' in the garden!!
My Mother and Father also work all day in their 'field' they're farmers.
My brother is a teacher at the school where we work - he teaches maths and ecconomics.


Each night i get home around 6 and sit in the down stairs kitchen come dining room come sitting room. We sit on foot stools or mats on the floor. We have curry - which we all eat with our hands (right hand mind you). This was a little strange at first but now i think it will feel strange to eat with a knife and fork!!


After we have finished our tea Praba collects every last grain of rice which has been dropped on the floor and this goes into the cow bowl with the other left overs (the cow bowl is basically a bowl of water and left overs which is given to our cows).


After the dishes have been washed Praba then rubs Cow dung into the floor in the house - they believe that not only does this purify the house because the cow is sacred but they also believe that it works as disinfectant!!!!


The stars here at night are amazing - i can remember seeing pretty impressive stars when i used to go the France camping with my parents but nothing like this - its as though theres' double the amount i have ever seen before - have tried to take a picture but it just doesn't do it justice.

Each night when i have finished my food Amma gives me hot milk (fresh from the cow then boiled on the clay stove) and i sit in the back yard drinking my milk and looking at the stars.


I kinda gettin used to the outside toilet but we heard today that two days ago a tiger was heard in our forest!! Pretty scary..............my mate Ceri has suggested we all keep pepper on us as apparently her mum throws pepper at the cats that try to come into their garden at home - not sure this will work!


We have the day off work tomorrow (Friday) which is great because i ache all over - i have never worked so hard in all my life - today we shifted about a thousand house bricks from the ground floor of the learning centre on the second floor - no more bingo wings for me!!! I 'felt the burn' believe me!!


We work Mon-Thurs then Friday we have a cultural discussion and dvd in the morning then our weekly meeting in the afternoon when we are given our spends - i can't wait for that either as i'm skint (nothing new there either). We get 700Rs which is quite a lot here - considering a coffee is 10p and the bus 5p it does go a long way -


Saturday we work half day then we're planning to go to Kathmandu for the night (we couldn't go last weekend because there was strike / protest).


We also plan to go to the Ambassador hotel for a massage - can't wait!


On Weds it was our project Supervisor (Bal's) birthday - we bought him some surfer shorts and also did a make shift pass the parcel - we basically wrapped some Nepali sweets in newspaper!!! We also played musical chairs - think he enjoyed it - we f\got a late curfew which was fab as every night we have to be home for 6pm - but on Weds we were allowed to 'play out' till 8pm - whoooo! We were late getting back and the bus was full so we had no choice but to come back on the roof of the bus! Ubber dangerous - nearly had me head cuts off by electricity cables and branches i don't know how many6 times - was a laugh though - prob a bad idea me mentioning it on here as its against our 'code of conduct' but so is being late so it was one or the other....

Got to go now - we're in a place called Lubhu which is the closest place e for the Internet, we found a back street cafe here which we have nicknamed to Nepali Arms! Have to be back by 5.30..............