Have had a fantastic last week. Our training course in Nunthala was much smaller than the first one which meant we combined subjects so we had enough participants. I was in with Science and maths and we did a few integrated lessons which meant we all got involved at different times.
The team is gelling well, and the boys are doing a great job at teaching me Nepali, which usually ends in bursts of hysterical laughter on their part as they find anything I say in Nepali ridiculously funny. Good times. They also think I'm very strong as I carried my own pack rather than using the porter, and when I started eating my dhal baht with my fingers as they do, my street cred skyrocketed! Turns out its quite a skill to eat rice with your fingers. But i've got it sussed now and they LOVE me!
We are now in Lukla, which feels like civilisation after our small mountain villages and teahouses. We have been on the old Jiri-Everest track which is the old route that Sir Ed would have walked back in the day. Now most people just fly straight into Lukla. It was aweesome being off the main tourist track and seenig some of the 'real' nepal. Am now sitting in Starbucks (!!!!) using a laptop (!!!!) to type this.
Saw a guy wandering delirously round town earlier and then a few minutes later saw him on a strectcher headed for the health post - not in good shape! Maybe dehydration post Altitude sickness but no idea. Also just saw a bunch of monks walk past the window in procession coplete with flaming sticks, conch shells and bells. No idea what that was about but great to have it as a normal part of your day!!
Have met up with Jim Strang (boss of the Education bit of AHF), and am looking forward to this week with him. Our last training course starts tomorrow in a village half an hour away, and goes for the next 6 days. It feels more like we are in the spring of things now and its pretty enjoyable.
Pics taking too long to upload so will put some up next week when Im back in kathmandu.
Will be in email contact all week so send some love this way!
Ka Kite,
Miri
The team is gelling well, and the boys are doing a great job at teaching me Nepali, which usually ends in bursts of hysterical laughter on their part as they find anything I say in Nepali ridiculously funny. Good times. They also think I'm very strong as I carried my own pack rather than using the porter, and when I started eating my dhal baht with my fingers as they do, my street cred skyrocketed! Turns out its quite a skill to eat rice with your fingers. But i've got it sussed now and they LOVE me!
We are now in Lukla, which feels like civilisation after our small mountain villages and teahouses. We have been on the old Jiri-Everest track which is the old route that Sir Ed would have walked back in the day. Now most people just fly straight into Lukla. It was aweesome being off the main tourist track and seenig some of the 'real' nepal. Am now sitting in Starbucks (!!!!) using a laptop (!!!!) to type this.
Saw a guy wandering delirously round town earlier and then a few minutes later saw him on a strectcher headed for the health post - not in good shape! Maybe dehydration post Altitude sickness but no idea. Also just saw a bunch of monks walk past the window in procession coplete with flaming sticks, conch shells and bells. No idea what that was about but great to have it as a normal part of your day!!
Have met up with Jim Strang (boss of the Education bit of AHF), and am looking forward to this week with him. Our last training course starts tomorrow in a village half an hour away, and goes for the next 6 days. It feels more like we are in the spring of things now and its pretty enjoyable.
Pics taking too long to upload so will put some up next week when Im back in kathmandu.
Will be in email contact all week so send some love this way!
Ka Kite,
Miri
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