Trekkers Holiday Inn Kathmandu

... been slightly over looked, but it was good to see the whole schol having fun.
This week our class gave Colm and I various pictures they had drawn for us in their art classes, which was really heart warming, so predictably our Friday class descended in to a regular games lesson and we do teaching on Monday!!!! Were big softies!!!!
This week end was Shaun Lewis 24th Birthday which signalled yet another blinding weekend in Kathmandu. This included our stereotypical bumpy bus ...

... with her mortar and pestle, peels and fries the knotty potatoes with leafy greens, and tastes her lentil broth with slurps from the ladle. The meal is served with rice, and we devour three heaping plates, famished from eight hours of tramping over river and mountain with 35 pounds strapped to our backs.
From their hospitality, it's clear to me why Sherpas fame as loyal guides and trusted porters is well established. Puree ...

... of his reincarnation who I will meet in a month or two when he returns from retreat in Bhutan. Should be exciting. Getting outside the city was very uplifting and it is really a beautiful region. At times I could even make out the towering Himalayas through the smog but I think that experience is being saved for later. That should be amazing. I love mountains. All in all things seem to ...

... Nepali traffic and getting good deals on bus tickets...unthinkable 5 weeks ago!!!
This week was our Global Discussion Program start and our visit to the Department for International Developement (DFID) whcih gave the whole group a much better picture of International aid. The program will continue till the end of our stay covering a variety of developement topics and generally increase our knowledge...So were getting alot of good inffo.
The Teaching moves forward ...

... 14 93;ת של "שי", נפאלי דובר עברית ואהוב בזכות יושרו על כל הישרא 00;ים, פגשתי באייל 92; ולנה. הן נס ...

... o tres de segles, i malgrat la invasio de motos, rickshaws i turistes, permet respirar l'atmosfera que es deuria desprendre en ple epogeu dels pobles newar. Si es fuig de la capital, es pot apreciar el dia a dia dels vilatans, poc alterat encara pel pas del temps i l'arribada d'extrangers carregats amb cameres fotografiques digitals, que durant la meva visita estan ocupats secant o batent l'arros o duent a terme rituals religiosos ...

... cool.

Mike's Entry.

Katmandu was fast noisy and the craziest traffic I have ever seen and I've been some places with crazy traffic. I know a couple of my friends who hate stupid drivers would have hoarse throats from screaming at thes idiots. I'd like to go on about the the traffic, like cars playing pedestrian dodgeball and I will later but I'm in Bhaktapur ...

... We got * bus to K*thm*ndu *long * ro*d th*t m*de us rec*ll E*rthqu*ke Ro*d *t Rombuk with fondness. M*rk *nd I were *tt*cked by * gi*nt spider with legs out to HERE. We stopped for food *g*inst my better judgement, *nd it took *lmost two hours to get it. I ordered pl*in rice, but I got more protein th*n I b*rg*ined for with * grub *nd * beetle included. I w*s shocked by how much Nep*l reminded me of wh*t I know of Indi*.

S*ris, orph*ns, go*ts *nd c*ttle, bumpy ro*ds, cr ...

... meeting with web designers and writing copy for an entire website. If anyone technical would like to help me review my web designer candidates and can donate some consulting time, please let me know. I can do the copy and I know what I want, but I need help from a web designer and one who preferably knows all about the technical aspects of ecommerce systems.

I was happy that my friend was hanging at the cafe drinking homemade rice booze with his buddies. I ...

Hello from Nepal!

And already the trip has a 'what's going on here??' vibe. My favorite.

I arrived in Nepal on Wednesday, March 11, and went straight to a little town called Godavari to stay with a family and take some basic Nepali language lessons for a week. This was all arranged with the 'man of the house' who we'll call Limbu. Limbu is actually his last name and his tribe name, which is a common thing here. For example ...