(Picture - us in the hut where we have tiffin every day playing black jack...again!)
Namaste everyone!
So not much has happened since I last updated this. As I said on Sunday there was a festival for some families in the village where women wear red sari's and fast for 36 hours to 'preserve' the life of the men in their families so some of the girl volunteers had got red sari's and looked dherai ramro (very beautiful). My family don't celebrate the festival though, however Ramu didi and Meena dressed me up in a sari a few nights ago which was fun :) In a few weeks there's the Dashain festival for 6 days so me, Meena and our sisters are going to go and get a sari. So yep, my family don't celebrate that festival so I went to Harriet's house for a little while (as her family are also Nivari and don't celebrate either) and then we went to the project office and watched some films.
On Monday we were all strangely looking forward to going to work because the rain kept us all off work for a few days last week but yet again it was raining! Its so hot for our days off but when it's work it gets rainy! So we had a meeting with Bharat and from now on if we have a day off because of the rain we're hoping to go into local schools and paint the classrooms which should be good!
On Tuesday we started work again finally, two of the volunteers were ill though which sucked, one of them keeps getting ill and then better again and then ill again, and might have to go home if they don't get better soon :( Hopefully that won't happen though! I don't think me telling him the Aston Villa vs Liverpool score helped considering he's a Liverpool fan! :)
That afternoon I was starting to feel ill so had to go home early. I had a nap for most of that afternoon, got up for dinner -BUFFALO!, and then went back to bed. When I woke up on Wednesday morning I still felt pretty awful but didn't want to not work so went away...got to the site and was quickly sent home though :( The project supervisor was worried because so many people are getting ill and having to go to hospital!
Ooh about the project, we've nearly finished levelling the ground! Yay! Today it was just the girls digging, barrowing, etc, and the boys were moving stones. So nearly ready to build the wall! :) I am very excited because the work is starting to get a bit repetitive!
On Tuesday on the way home from Nepalese lesson, me and Meena saw this big group of Nepalese women having an argument! Apparently they were fighting over some land and PUNCHES were seen! So the police had to be called. It was crazy!!
Today we have a half day and after tiffin some of us went to look at a local school that we're going to teach in and "do up" which should be good!
So yes, that's the past few days for you! Tomorrow I'm going to Kathmandu with Harriet which should be good :) On Monday we have our mid term seminar, next Monday we're going to a trafficking centre (Maiti Nepal) where rescued women and children are, and the weekend after to a hotel to watch the sunset/sunrise :)
Missing home lots! But only 6 weeks and 6 days left!
Lots of love,
Al xxxxxx
PS Funny story for you all...the other day I was walking home from work and was so tired that I forgot that Dhanyabaad means thanks and Namaste means hello, and I walked the whole way home saying "Dhanyabaad" to everyone and kept getting such funny looks...it was terrible!
