Few more facts of life:

grapefruits grow outside my door :) (no im not eating them)
had chicken curry for the first time at the house two nights ago, DELICIOUS!! thank god rajendra orders the chicken sans organs, so its just bones meat and skin, and the kids eat all the skin.

Learning slowly how to cook at the house and am helping the house mom whenever i can to prepare meals

Yesterday Bhabishya and Ashmita came home with their homework, which is to copy english words about 20 times into their copy book.

Next to a picture of a hot pepper was the word "chilly" . . . seriously!? the kids had never heard of the word chilly to mean cold, so when i explained it to them they thought it was hysterical that it could be chilly outside . . . i tried writing whatever retarded teacher a note but who knows where it will go.

Im pretty sure for Sarita's (the oldest) vocabulary words, they pick random words out of the dictionary, as the word "fornicate" was on her list once . . .

Nevertheless i am going to try to help out in the school sometime next week

Monkey temple and mounain biking to be done soon!

Story of the week:

Two days ago was tibetan new year. . . so we tried to go to the buddhist temple to join the festivities . . . on the way we see a smaller tibetan gathering and decided to go on in, assuming it was for the new year
saw that it was mostly just people sitting around, tried to leave
was presented with LARGE shopping bags FULL of bisquits, fruit, snacks, so we felt bad leaving after that
turned around went back inside
Found chairs in shade
sat down
tibetans rush over with a table
more tibetans rush over with tea
more tibetans rush over with cups and a bottle of coke
more tibetans rush over and usher us to the food. . . gigantic buffet of veggies, tofu, MEAT, yogurt, and lots of other stuff. .. one of the best meals
we eat like kings, all the time thanking everyone
no one spoke a word of english to us this whole time
as we got up to give back our plates, we found the one man who spoke decent english, and thanked him for the food and said happy new year

to which he replied:

"this is not for the new year, this is a funeral reception"

WHOOPS :)

oh well, i still love tibetans .. . nothing too special was going on at the actual temple, so we walked back and made a pit stop at the Hyatt. . . which im pretty sure is the ONE and only western luxurious hotel in all of kathmandu (i mean im probably wrong but it seems that way)

the hyatt was like steping into another country, it was incredible, met some crazy german world traveler who initially told us he was from khazakstan and had two wives and 10 children . . . the end