In the mornings the children wake up at 8 and usually do more homework or study something or other. Something i have been amazed by is how much work the children are made to do- an hour or so after school of homework for all of them (even the youngest) and then quite often they are given extra handwriting for another hour or two- yesterday they all had to copy out a detailed leaflet on paragliding that the Uncle had found for them, and i am also encouraged to giv...

My bus to Pokhara was early the next morning, so i set an alarm but had guessed the time wrong by over an hour so was woken by a phone call to room! 10 minutes later i was on my way to the bus and got to see a bit of Kathmandu in daylight, it was as i had been informed- dirty, full of poverty and extremely hectic, I waited in the bus and watched out the window as the world went to work, school and about their morning jobs. The bus trip itself was incredible...