Christmas Service

Nativity

Mary's song

Choir

Dance

Elementary sings

Making the announcement

wee dancers

Joseph and child

more choir.

It's That Time of Year Again.

Angels

Christmas programs mean lots of practices and mixed up schedules.  So here are a couple photos from the last couple days as we all prepare for the Christmas Carol Service.

Choir members

Joseph sings a lullaby

Angels discuss the scene

Elementary

Nepali Praise!

Village Visit

A couple weeks ago, a number of staff and students worked with Habitat for Humanity to help build a house. The village was about an hour and a half out of town and a couple of the teachers wanted to check out the progress of the house. I was invited along, I think to take photos mostly, but I had a good time. I think the villagers were surprised to see us, as we had not been able to call ahead and let them know we were coming.  We delivered some notebooks and crackers for the kids of the village. They were prized possessions!
We visited the house... it needs a roof and some windows, but the progress has been slow as only the family is working on it, when they are not doing their real job.
I think the family was glad that we came out all that way to see them.  I am glad that I was able to go and be a part of the experience.
On the way home, we stopped and had lunch at a mountain restuarant. It was a pleasant day and good to get out of the valley.

Oh Really?!

The other day in the paper there was an article about the completion of a 30 day clean up  program of the Bagmati River. The paper quite proudly talked about how the Bagmati River was clean and flowing with FRESH rainwater again and that the smell was gone.  So wanting to see this amazing transformation, I wandered down to the Bagmati that day and took a couple photos....still holding my nose....

Which part of the river were they talking about?

Watching Planes Land

the cooks make our meal

view of the city

conversation on the roof

looking North

I really love to watch planes land and take off. Must be something my dad gifted me with, because as a kid, I remember going to the airport and watching planes.  So the other day, one of the Nepali staff invited a bunch of us over to his home for a christmas meal. We sat on the roof, it was much warmer up there in the sun, and ate and laughed as the planes came in overhead.  I just sat there for hours watching them. It was a good day.

dinner is served

Busy December

 I know, I know, I have not put up a blog post of late..but I really have some good reasons.  The main one being how busy the end of term is with all the last minute programs and grades and.. well you know.  So that is the main issue.

The second one is that now that we are in a higher load shedding time of winter, I do not have power as often and by the time I get home in the evenings, I just want to fix my hot water bottles and jump into my down sleeping bag and go to sleep in warmth. Sometime I think when I pay my rent, that it would be cheap just to buy a storage unit and sleep there, cause that seems like all I am really paying for - a storage unit.

 It is nice to be home on the weekends...oh wait, that hasn't been true for about a month of weekends. How am I so busy when I know so few people here?  Headed out to a village in the next valley this morning to deliver some presents.

Well guess that is all for today. I havemore news on my adventures this weekend that I will relay to you later.  Ciao!

My Coffee Turkey

The other day, I meet a friend for coffee. Since it was close to Thanksgiving, I asked if they could design a turkey in my foam... usually people do hearts or something... I am not sure...anyways... I asked for a turkey. The waiter just looked at me as if I was insane. (Let's not go there) A bit later, I got this cup.
I looked at the design for a while and finally saw a turkey. Can you?  You have to sneak up on it...

I thanked the waiter profusely and again she looked at me as if I was insane...But I was pleased and decided to snap a photo before it disappeared!