Same same, but hotter.

Kathmandu - The sun is burning and there now is no lake to cool me off, but hey! Im making the best of it. I arrive back in the smoggy city on Monday afternoon and after rushing straight down to freak street, the sun was terential (have i mentioned that?), i booked myself into a 200 rups room and sat down for my first actual coffee in pushing 4 weeks. I was buzzing my tits off by the second cup! Here i got chatting, perhaps a little enthusiastically, to a top bloke from Scotland who's been teaching in S Korea for the last 2 years and back home was a standup comedian... Iv never met a comedian before, and they are just as fun as you'd expect - he had an apartment in Ktm above one of my original aquatences, Paul, who i was glad to see was still here and we spent the evening on Paul's girlfriend's apartment roof with many friends, a good fire and a good amount of Kurkhuri Rum and Raksi, both are fecking lethal and Tuesday morning presented me with my second hangover of the trip... nasty, but the numbers are at least down! So the following day was spent clearing up the damage of the night before, lots of coffee, shaking hands and one trip to the hospital for an emergency tetanus jab for my south african friend! Standard. Apres I headed up to Thamel to have lunch with Helen, generally a great catch-up, its sad she's heading off to india real soon, i will miss her. But this is the traveling life and im used to, no happy about it - the detachment that naturally occurs with friends out here i think produces the healthiest frienships. I said goodbye, bought a watermelon and headed back to Boudhanilkantha, back home.
The kids were glad to see me back and have spent the entire day showing me everything that is slightly different from before, new football, new haircuts, clean toilets (!!!!!), everyone is doing well but just as i suspected the money hasnt quite turned up yet but if a meal takes 2 hours to be made in this country, money is going to take a long time too.
So thats me, and im fine... if not great. I booked my flight to Bangkok (no malaysia :( - not enough cash) on the 25th of this month (* my lil bro's b-day - It felt right!) and i cannot freaking wait to be back there... not bangkok, Im getting on a train straight to Ayuthaya the second i touch down as i dont want to go from one fuck off city to the next. There i don't know, wait a little until my TEFL program starts, wherever that starts (chaing mai, phuket or ko samui - all great in there own ways) - but waiting in Ayuthaya, my absolute love, is no bad thing - i will be templed and night bazaared out by the time my course starts and im looking forward to meeting Thai Carpanini again at Bah Eve Guesthouse (Harry knows what I mean - Max there is no insult in the last sentence i swear, he's a happy happy dude.).... But this is all speculation, nothing solid but the plane ticket - who know's what will happen, I never do.

Oh and G - cheers for the email, made me feel excellently special, love ya man!