The Family

It's the end of my first week volunteering. I am living with a Nepali family. The extended family lives here so there's aunts, uncles, sisters, grandmothers... all in the same house. Only a few know english whichis good. When know one is around to speak english i try to communicate with them, we end up acting things out and using my pigeon nepali. I've been working on my Nepali, but it's not easy. I know words like spicy and hot. The family is very kind and they let me in on their lives. There is a coming of age cerimony that happening right now. A cousin of theirs is getting married to the Sun. Girls get married 3 times, once to their god, once to the Sun and once to the man of their choice, there's no arranged marrages. So next week is the big party, i'm not sure what to expect. Yesterday the ladies of the house tried teaching me the art of how to wrap a sari. It's harder then it looks! I'm going to have to practise a lot before next week. They only have electricity certain hours of the day and limited internet so it's hard to find a day where weget both at the same time.