Kids with Paint, Kids with Paint.

Jeez, i fear it may be a little hard to follow my last post as not too much has been going on to the previous kinda level and I'm not complaining :)
The orphanage is starting to shape up, with the first money of the new committee arriving from Carrie things are a changing. First on the agenda is what I am currently escaping from is the painting of the whole house. Not surprisingly the walls and interestingly the ceilings are covered in grubby hand marks and exhaust fumes. New paint! The walls are going to be a nice dirt-invisible chocolate colour and the ceilings a yellow/cream. I have no idea how its going to look but it will at least look fresh rather than grimy. The painters took the piss a little and tried to charge waaaay too much for the job and the paint and also insisted that they had new rollers and brushes bought from them, but Carrie and Rustam haggled it down to only a slightly extortionate price, although its probably how much you would pay someone to paint one room back home so hey.
The next thing on the to-do list is to replace the current mud/march/stagnant-water land outside in the 'garden' with concrete. Not too expensive and way more permanent that a actual garden, then the kids can play basketball or whatever without running a risk of cholera, simple ideas. I, as everyone else, feels supremely lucky that Carrie turned up, she did great by fundraising before hand and without her and her introduction to deepika, a nepali UN worker, we would probably have never started to pull away the power from the current businessmen committee members to ourselves and the founder, Rustam. This is a hinging moment in the charity's life as for the first time it is actually a charity and not just an advertising technique. I have a few ideas as well with the money i want to donate, new benches and a table for everyone to sit round at dinner i think is where I'm going to spend it, much nicer than squatting on the floor and stairs.
Yesterday I was a teacher for the first time. I took a class of 7 elementary adults for 2 hours at a career development office in Charapark, on my side of the Kathmandu ring-road. I really really loved it, being centre of attention and all ;) Its great because iv been asked to come back for one more session before i leave the country to actually start doing this seriously (as in getting paid to do it)and its fantastic that i actually enjoy it and get some results also. We shall see where it takes me.
I am thoroughly looking forward to leaving Nepal for a while, its starting to become a little too much for me in some ways and the orphanage being painted and done up with new financial prospects seems like a perfect conclusion to my work out here. Thailand is calling and according to friends its fecking boiling so i cannot wait, just 8 more days and ill be there :) 8 more days :)