hey hey again!

since i have last written which wasnt that long ago,this has happened....................

after stayin two nyts at the guesthouse in lumbini,and we finali got the sternfaced girl to smile, well, torq did!he moonied her!!the first day we went for a walk and went to the next day we hired push bikes,NR100 for the day and we rode into The Village Garden wherevisit Lord Buddha's birthplace!it was ruins from the monastery that used to be there and stupas.in the middle was the actual place that he was born!around this was built a monastery to preserve it!it was pretty surrel being there to be honest!i took pictures and felt a bit guilty, although u r allowed to! in the garden there wer trees and monks sittin around them praying and meditaying and the public also.i took many nice pictures of this place!i could have stayed there all day!the weatha was perfect, me and torq sat under a tree with the sun shining on our faces.it was so still and peaceful................until,the inevitablllle!!hahaha!the japanese tourists!!not the americans for a change!!!hahaha! on the way out we looked in the stalls lining up along the entrance andtorq was dancing withone of the guys who happened to be the son of the ppl whose lodge we wer staying in.i filmed them n was laughing my head off!then sum guy wiva funny laugh started laughing!that was it!i cudnt stop laughing and there was a lil crowd and the other stallkeepers came out and everyone was laughing uncontollably for aaages!my belly muscles hurt, but still i culdnt stop myself!!!yorq got some of it on camera!it lasted about20mins!!!!

on the way out we past the korean monastery that german traveler told us u can stay.we asked inside and they sed to come back the nx day.during our 2 nite stay we didnt do very much!they fed us3xs a day, korean food!nice, an dinteresting!the first mornin i wanted to go for mornin prayer, but io got confused withe times and thought thr wer2 sessions, but just one so wen i set my alarm, i turned it off and wud go to the next!i awoke for the next, but it was breakfast(and the gong always rings for mealties)!! torq and i wernt alowd same room, single sex only.i hada HUGE room to myself for that nite!i starrted makin beads for my nye costume, took a yoga book out the library.the rules for staying thr was:no:smokin, drugs,playin cards,singin,dancin,baring body,listenin to music and eatin anywhr other than the dining hall, nadkeep quiet!the second day i managed to wake up to go for prayer at4am!cud only stay1.5 hours cos cudnt stop sneezing and then my nose started runnina n i dint have enough tissue!IT WUDA BIN MUCH NICER IN DIFF CIRCUMSTANCES!THE nuns arrived before the monks and one sang andclicked the wood together and banged the gong andthem and2 koean visitors stood up and bowed on the floor almost continiously the entire time!!!i got tired just watching!the 2nd nite i shared a room witha japanese girl called Reiko!but she told me her name was Leiko!(cos japs mix up their rs and ls!!)me and torq kept giggling childishly!and makin her repeat herself and say things with those letters!i leart how r u in korean: an-yoh

after this we took a bus to bhairhawa and was sposed to get 1 from thr to pokhara,but aparantly they dint go direct,so we went to botwal.NR30.the guy next to me told me he had the same stop and that r bus was in front.we took r bags off the bus, but the new conductor told us it wasnt r stop and sed sumin to the guy, we got bk on and the the conductor tried to charge me NR50 mfor my rucksack!!now, firstly, wen i sat with my ruchsackit was squashed into my footspace and i rested my legs on top of it nd wasnt in anyones way ,2ndly,i already paid the other guy wen i got on, 3rdly,u dont pay for luggage!so basicaly the guy was tryin to take the piss outa me cos i wasnt from there and i told himall this and that i only took up 1persons space, so he sed:ok, NR20!bloody cheek!i sed, im not payin and folded my arms, fuming!so he walked away! me and torq got off at the next stop.he followed us and tried to tell us to take a taxi for a 7-10hour bus journey!wata twat!!!!!!he sed ill showe u, i walked off nad he sed ok ill take u to the busstop,we followed him cos we wer in the midd of nowhr,then i spotted 2policemen and i asked them the way.he stood a bit apart and the police went to ask him,and he look uncomfy!i explained to the police about him and wat had hapened.it was8pm,they sed the bus came at10pm.so we went to use internet, but it dint work ,they came over to help[ and found one for us that worked .after this we went to the busstop which was behind them and the gave us peanuts.then ordered us some foo dfrom a stall.we sat withem and chatted and took pix and one asked for my email.11pm, still no bus, i told the police that if no bus came by 4am wen they fin work, we wud stay at thr house!he sed yes!haha1not sure if he understood!eventually got a bus to pokhara and we shared it with a chicken!and a guy with music who danced.wen the bus stoped for 3 hours cos it was too dark to drive around the mountain,a police got on and tapped me in the head to move over so he can sit.then he rested his head on the other guys shoulder and whiospered to him! weird!!

wen we eventually arrived around 11am, a guy met us off the bus as they do and it get s quite annoyin, we had sucha long nyt, not much sleep and they opounce!i told him to leave me, and explained this to him and he sed that he understood,waited 10secs and started again, i walked away and he started on torq!he followed me into a shop to get food.so did the man.he ended up givin us quite a good offer.NR150 for a room and a free taxi,which he later charged us for cos we only stayed one nite,but he never se that to us to begin withj!anotha twat! we made r way to the yeti guest house to ask for christopher who does paragliding deals for$5o instaed of$85,(a english traveler told us in lumbini and he had jus cum fro thr)but no christopher!instead we got adopted parents, malla and nil.they own it and its in the lonely planet.ther kids r in the states studyoing and they think i look like thr daughter.so they took to me, and they thought i was nepales wen the first sw me!they ended up getin us a deal forNR75 and bookin us tix for r jungle safari xmas eve and day.nil also organiesed an itinery for us to get to kolkata for 27thdec! its actually 8th september 2064 in nepal!!not 23rd dec 2007!

then they fed us and made uspopcorn and we spent the whole day thr chattin!the mum wa s emotional.they wer sooooo helpful and hospitable even tho we wernt thr guests!they asked me to come back to visit with no charge and they dake me on tours and teks and stuff!after we left we met a lady who took me to her house to meet her children and then sum one brought torq in! we stayed there for a while laughing and jokin.i think at one point thr wer about10kids in the room firin questions at s!(very good english vocab, cos they have6 of thr 10 lessons taught in english!)then we went to see tradional dancin and singin!the waitress pulled me to dance!i laughed lall thru it!then torq also!then a guy danced wi me and torq wi the lady!i had a whiskey, but i dont think it agred wi me, or the chicken i had for dinner(at new mum and dads, cos they ate it too and are clean people!)we left here and went to another whr a beer was NR300! waterNF60!)but i had n allergic reaction!my palms and tongue itched, my chest was tight and short of breath and my heart beat real fast and hard, na my shoulders ached!! i went out and bort milk.on way back, we dint no name of our hotel and couldnt find it!but wen we did, i took my antihistamines!i normaly take em with me , but we only planned to go to the bank!!we staye dout til 1amish!

this mornin we went paraglidin and saw the himalayas!it was fantastic! it only cost$75 for 40mins ish!after this i rode o top of the bus back to base!fun!we wer gona go manakamana to day after to go in the cable cars, but after that, thrs no oint!!we followed birds and went bout250ft in the air!!!i filmed it and took pix!! i will put it on soon!but everything takes sooooooooooooo long!just to put the last it took over an hour!about10pix!

so maybe wen i get to thailand it will b faster, fingers xs!!!

tomo we r goin to chitaun to go on a jungle safari, bird watch, ride&bathe wi elephants,see tigers,crocs,one horned rhinos(only found here!)i will put pix up!!!

lastly:MERRY XMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE!!!

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