Rain Rain Rain, Hail. Almost the entire account of the day, very miserable and cold, the mountains are now nowhere to be seen and flash floods are proceeding to gallop down the steep, mountain roads leading to extremely non-moped friendly conditions :(
I am not bothered though, It was getting extremely muggy in the valley so the silver lining turned out to be the cloud itself and anyway I have taken to walking to the project before my afternoon shift. This way i can stay with the kids after dark (and also get a beer on the way home :) !
But life did exist today before the rain, I went to one of my Nepali friends, Subas' college this morning to meet with him and his friends... we had a couple of coffees and played some cricket - suprisingly I didn't completely suck at it! Then the rain started..... rain stops play, so we jumped on the bikes and headed home in the tropical rain/hail storm. I now would like to make a affadavit to the world; I fully understand why the car is a more practical thing that a motorbike, i fully understand this.
Apparentlty I am entitled to a free day soon (well technically since its volunteer work I am entitled to all free days but that wouldnt be as special!) so I think I might take that either today or tomorrow - Rosie Barnes is living on the opposite side of the Kathmandu valley and there is talk of us converging in the middle somewhere for a chin-wag english style, so we'll see if that happens anytime soon - would be great to see her, a friendly face would be the wrong phrase as everyone is so friendly here even Rosie will find it hard pushed to display a friendlier grin, my smiling muscles are getting a real work-out out here, completely serious; i have already split my top lip just by smiling too much! Luckily I realised that the reason I have been grinning like a indifferent simpleton so much before was the language barrier... The nepali people are taught english at a very young age extensively, all of them. However due to the method of teaching in place here (crap) most non-college graduates (most) nepalis have an extensive vocabulary but with no grammar and structure behind it, so conversation is bear and always will be (in English anyway) but pointing and shouting at things is extensive! So I have maturely started learning the lingo and it is going well, I can be understood in a lot of requests now and due to the crappiness of their English accent i do not feel any shame in regards to my evidently poor Nepali accent.
Oh no the electricity is about to die, will finish this asap!
Big love to mark thompson and harry williams, thanks for the message love u both. even a surfer :)
not censorship but "conversation is "bear" indicates that there is a lot of roaring going on. In the absence of beer (bear again?) I would suggest that the conversation is "bare"
ReplyDeletePicky I know but that's your mother (control freak) xxx