Before we get to holi:
there is wild marijuana growing ALL OVER my neighborhood . . . i cannot believe i didn't realize it until Nora (volunteer from Austria) pointed it out to me!
More photos up on Facebook (im finally in Thamel uploading where there's fast internet, a lot of pics from the stories you've heard)
Just last night had a wonderful dance party in the play room with the kids . . . took out my ipod and put on all the hindi music i have :) . . . although once jai ho came on thats ALL the kids wanted to listen to. The three little ones were SO incredibly cute though . . . and this is day 4 of no pee for subash :) . . . noe more day and he gets a handmade bracelet from me
A word on taking a poo:
you probably haven't ever thought about how much you take for granted when you take a nice luxurious seat on that toilet to do your business . . . but for a lot of the world there is much more to this little task than relaxing with the morning paper.
1) its all about the foot placement with squat toilets. . . there is the "shuffle" before the squat, to make sure you are on target
2) Dont get too comfortable: you may have shuffled correctly, but 2 minutes in, after you tire a bit, you may find yourself leaning back or forward a little. . . NOT A GOOD IDEA unless you are okay with a sliding bankshot (ill let you figure out the reference)
3) Swishes are preferable
HOLI:
Imagine all of society had a gigantic water fight, all the teenagers got drunk at 10AM, everyone threw bags of water twist tied up at each other, some clear, many with colored pigments in them, at everyone
to top it all off, people run around with the pigment powder on theirhands and smear it onto peoples faces (strangers faces) . . . cannot WAIT to get these pictures up they will be in the next batch
we exhausted ALL of our water reserves (there was no power so no water was pumping, so we had to use up all of our reserve water stored in big black drums)
it was so worth it, one of the best days here
everyone shouts "happy holi" as they throw things at you
people on the roofs have a HUGE advantage
all cyber cafes were closed because theres no way they were getting water anywhere near their stores
Trek tomorrow morning with views of EVEREST!!! ill be back thursday night, WOOT
thanks for reading,. next post ill let you know how the trek went!
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so happy you are sharing all these super stories. I like to think of you running around as a crazy man in Nepal while I am reading some dense and lame essay where some old white dude in the eighteen hundreds went briefly to the east and then came back to his armchair, lit his pipe and proceeded to dictate endless dribble about exactly how other cultures get along.
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