Hi everyone,
So in the last blog entry I completely forgot to write about
my host sisters birthday! She turned 7 on the 7th Sept so our host
family had a big party for her! Me and
Meena got her some bangles and had also planned to play pass the parcel and had
got some gifts and everything! I was still ill the night before though so was lying on the sofa leaving Meena and Ramdevi the job to put the parcel together - which turned out to be an awful
idea. We went to play it on the Monday and Meena had wrapped each present individually and three times without any gifts
in between – I don’t think she understood what pass the parcel was haha. Luckily our
family have not heard of the game so didn’t realise her mistake! Lucky lucky
lucky. I was in hysterics for about an hour – oh dear. Hina, Jahira and Harriet also came over for the birthday party and got Princess some lovely gifts! I think Princess was LOVING the attention!
For most of last week I wasn’t allowed to work as the doctor
said I had to take 5 days rest so I was very bored! On the Wednesday I was very
excited to FINALLY be allowed out! Both sets of volunteers were meeting up to
play a ‘friendly’ game of football! It was great to see the other volunteers as
we hadn’t seen them in five weeks, it wasn’t so great to lose though! 8 – 6! We
used the excuse that we had to walk an hour and a half to their village to play
though! You can tell it didn't end up being a 'friendly' game, peoples competitive sides definitely came out!
The following morning Bharat told us that our planned trip
to the slums had to be postponed which was a bit annoying so we decided to go
to Kathmandu instead which was fun! We got there on Friday afternoon, had some
dinner, had a look around and then went to this live music place called Lhasa –
the music was amazing! The following day
for breakfast we went to this place called the Bakery Café which is run by deaf people. I only ordered some juice and cereal but the service was
amazing! We then continued to look around Kathmandu before getting the bus home
– worst journey of my life. Surrounded by sweaty Nepali men and getting my legs
continually slammed against the bus door – not fun. The guys that are in charge of letting people on and off the bus find it hilarious to completely overcrowd the buses, I cant even explain how packed they make it. Literally passengers are hanging off the bus..it's crazy.
Since Sunday we’ve been back at work, the project is going
really well – have sent some pictures in an email, if you didn’t get them just
send me your email address and I’ll send them.
On Friday we’re going to Nagarkot, then next Thursday the
festival starts! We get a week off so are hoping we’ll be able to do some fun
things!
I hope everyone is well and enjoying September! I’m looking
forward to seeing you all in a month – not so much looking forward to leaving
my bedroom window view of the Himalayas though!
Love you all,
Al xxx
