(Picture - At the "Hotel in the clouds")
Hi everyone,
So, on Friday morning I awoke after an eventful night of sickness. I have now decided that my body just refuses to like the street bought somosas, even if they are amazing and cost about 5p!
Yesterday was our day off and 5 of us decided to go trekking up a mountain/hill haha; the rest of our group had stayed in Kathmandu overnight. We trekked up 1800 metres and it took us about 2 and a half hours. We left at 7am thinking it'd be cool outside; but it wasn't! Yesterday has got to have been the hottest day since I arrived here in Sirutar! The views on our trek were amazing though and well worth it, as was the view of the floor we got on the many occasions we fell over! It was so slippy.
We thought/were told we had reached the highest point we could walk, when one of the guys Uttam who came with us said "No no no..if we carry on for 15 minutes we'll reach the top" ....an hour later we still hadn't reached the top. So when the guy again said "if we carry on for fifteen more minutes we'll reach a mountain top hotel" you can imagine that we didn't believe him. But we carried on and 30 minutes later we had reached the hotel and it was amazing! We sat there for about an hour and ordered some chips - I think I must have had about 3 plates of chips! Haha not enjoying the rice and curry at the mo! And then we went back down the mountain...mostly on our bums thanks to the amount of times we fell over.
I was also lucky enough to notice half way down the mountain that there was a leech on my ankle - lucky me! I calmly (which I'm rather proud of) said to Uttam - "there's a leech on my ankle, please get it off" and he did. He put some sort of liquid on it which I stupidly thought would stop the bleeding...when we returned to our homestay me and Meena quickly realised that my sock and shoe was full of blood - how lovely :S
So yes, that was yesterdays trek. After the trek I had a cold shower and desperately needed to wash some clothes (when I get home I will never take a washing machine for granted.) I am getting the knack of hand washing though!
Went to project office for a bit, nearly finished watching Marley & Me, played black jack - again, and then back to host family for the evening.
Today there is a festival for women called Tij so we don't have work today, only certain casts in the village celebrate the festival (my family don't) and they wear red sari's and fast all day, whilst dancing/singing all day too. It's lovely, and everyone looks beautiful.
Anyway I'll stop rambling on now, hope everything's good in England!
Enjoy your last week of Aug, can't believe how quickly August is going!
Pheri betula xxxx
