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Date Posted: 14:44:28 12/08/03 Mon
Author: sm
Subject: namaste!

hey guys! finally found the add for this website... haha... i'm in nepal now! doing volunteer work for 6 works.. well actually volunterring for 3 weeks cos first week is language classes and 2nd week village stay and jungle walks in the national park! then i'll be going for a 11 day trek so there will be snow! yay! haha... for my volunteer work i'll be going to do conservation work in one of the villages.. planting, digging, building and stuff... will be staying with a host family there as well so i'll try to learn how to cook and experience their way of life!

food's here is basically dhalbat.. whicch is lentil curry, rice and vegetables.. doesn't sound too bad but what if i told you the people here eat it twice a day, every day? =P for now i've staying in the hostel and the cook (the funniest most adorable guy in the world) knows how to cook some indian and western food as well so we've been having that... i shouldn't expect to see any of that in the village though =P i'm more of a meat person but strangely enough.. dhalbat is really growing on me.. sometimes i think i'll really miss it when i go back....

anyways, today is the last day at the hostel and i think i'll really miss it cos we're having so much fun there! ours is a small group and all of us are from different countries.. sg, holland, germany canada and australia. haha... and of course the cook kanchha... we're always laughing and playing tricks on each other.. the nepali language classes are also quite fun and it's nice to be able to understand a little of it.. we had a test.. well, if you can consider that as a test cos the teacher showed us a copy of the test paper a day before and we copied it onto our books and just studied from it.. haha...

the nepali pple are really nice and friendly.. everywhere you go on the streets, kids are always shouting out to you 'hello!' or 'namaste!' which is hello in nepali.. and evne the adults.. they're smile at you and say hi.. time's really flexible here as well.. you just do things at your own pace... it's so different to what we're used to! love it though... =)

and well.. hygiene here is not exactly the best.. the water coming out of the shower and taps in the hostel are just a little yellowish but.. haha.. i expect it'll be worse and we've heard from another volunteer that it will be worse in the village.. you wouldn;t be bathing cos the water is slimy and you have spiders coming out of it.. haha... so i guess i can't really wash myself for 3 days now.. and the water is really cold as well... i;ve been having cold showers and it's freezing cold showers.. i'm guessing it's cos i'm always the first to bath in the morning and for some reason, pple bathing after me are always having warm showers.. haha.. so my resolution for today is to bath after someone else.. and one of the staff was saying that it's better to bath in the afternoon cos they use solar power to heat the water or sthing..

ok then.. guess i have to go now.. i'm actually waiting for my 'instant' passport photos which is taking 1 and a half hrs to develop but then again, it's only 80 rupees which is S$2... haha.. everything's so cheap hre... can't wait to shop!

pheri betaula! (see you again/ bye!)
=)

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