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Hey Everybody,
I am feeling so much better now! Since the last time I updated I had the weekend off and have had one day of work (Sunday is a working day) So on Friday I wasn't really feeling much to up and just chilled out all day. Drank lots of mint lemonades and read my book in the rooftop cafes. It was nice to relax. On Saturday I headed to a place called Pashupatina. It is a holy river where funerals take place with a temple and ritual body burnings. So I ventured down to see that and it was a little strange!
There were idiotic tourists just filming EVERYTHING and practically barging mourners out of the way. It was pretty infuriating and disrespectful as well as the many Nepali people trying to get the tourists to buy all sorts of tack. The whole experience was quite depressing, from the people's behaviour to what I was actually seeing (Burning corpses!) So all in all I'm glad I ticked it off the list but I don't want to do it again in a hurry.
On the way back I and two other volunteers stopped off at the NEW Kathmandu mall. I've never seen anything like it in Nepal. It stood out because it was only 3 months old, had proper toilets, air conditioning and security on the door who frisked us for bombs? Presumeably....
I know I shouldn't be excited by a mall but I was! It even had an Ipod shop and a converse shop. The most expensive pair of converse they were selling were only twenty pounds and not fakes... so I might go back and get myself a pair. How crass- to go to Nepal and come back with cheap designer material goodies. Ah well! :(
Today I was back on the teaching and I only have two more days left of teaching before I start at the children's home. However I might keep visiting the monastery to give English lessons to the head monk Tenzing lama. Today Peter, Tenzing and I went after teaching to a place called 'the garden of dreams' and compared to Kathmandu and Thamel it really was!
It is a vast expanse of lush green lawn, fountains, statues, palms, flowers, chipmunks, butterflys, dragonflys and so on. It was so great. It was just what I was needing after feeling a bit trapped and ill in Kathmandu. It was nice to be out with Tenzing and talk to him about his family, his home in Bhutan and his life at the monastery. I have some lovely photos which I can't wait to put up.. I keep threatening to do this but at the moment the computers run so slow it would be such an effort. :(
So till next time. Namaste!
Laura x
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