A week left, and there is still so much I want to do! I have had a great time the past couple of days, and look forward to the days to come! Saturday, as mentioned in another blog post, I got to spend the day at Self Help Nepal and got to play with lots of children! I had a lot of fun playing with the kids and learning a new game! The kids liked to pinch my cheeks and call me cute, and a few locals thought we were cute when we were stranded on the side of the road waiting for our bus to find us!
Sunday was Holbie and I's adventurous day. We walked with most the group into Kathmandu, then we got a taxi to take us to Patan so we could go back to Golden Temple Singing Bowls and Healing Center, where we went as a group last week. Holbie bargained with the taxi driver and got him to take us there for 500 rupees ($5) for a 25 minute car ride! We both got larger singing bowls and got another taxi that dropped us off on the outside of Thamel. We walked back to the Guest House and then had dinner with Taylor, Kayleigh, and Brad. Later Sunday night, I saw a cockroach in Holbie and I's room! It disappeared so I woke Holbie up and she found it coming towards my feet and told me to step on it. However, I was too scared so I threw her shoe at it. Thinking I had killed it, I had just started to breath again and it flipped back over and I screamed. Holbie ended up picking it up between two of her flip flops and threw it out the window. She then laughed at me the rest of the night.
Today, Holbie, Brad, Becca, Chancey, and I got the opportunity to spend the day at Orchid Garden. We all got to watch the older kids sing songs with Ty and Taylor, which was a lot of fun! I then got to spend the day with the two year old's, and got to sing songs with them, play with Play-Doh, and play with lots of toys! After the kids ate lunch, they took a nap, so I sat with Becca and Chancey while we waited for our bus to come. The children mostly spoke Nepali, but it was fun to check out the other school and play with the kids!
After school Brad, Chancey, Taylor, Holbie, and I went to the Royal Palace Museum in Kathmandu. We got to walk around and look at all of the gigantic rooms for the visiting heads of state, and got to see the gorgeous garden in the back. We also got to see the Billiard room where we saw a huge pool table. Unfortunately we could not bring our personal belongings in and could not take pictures.
My plan for the rest of the week is to lead some activities in my class, do some last minute shopping, hopefully get a henna tattoo, and play with the puppies here at the hotel!
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| A friend from Self Help Nepal |
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| Our visit to the Royal Palace Museum |
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| Waiting for the bus after our visit to Self Help Nepal |
