Last Week.

On Tuesday this past week a cousin of the family who is 11 years old got married to the Sun. She emerged from her dark room after 12 days and came up onto the roof of their house. She was dressed in the splendor of an bride with a beautiful red and gold sari on. She sat down with her parents and a priest and they started this long and complicated ceremony. We are so lucky to be able to experience this. The rest of the extended family watched and drank tea and ate traditional Newar food. It was great! That night we went to the after party, so they lent me a sari!





I've gotten into the swing of things here. I get woken up at 6:15 by barking dogs, crying babies and just the bustle of the house. I have tea and breakfast, dal bat tacari. Which is rice, lentil soup and vegetables. The kids are still unruly, but I think I'm teaching them things on Monday I'm going to give them a bit of a test. By getting them to match words with pictures like the word red with the colour red. I work until 3 Then head home for some more tea. At 5 I walk down the street to their youth club which is the community centre. where I teach games and songs in English to teenage kids, they have pretty good English from being in an English immersion school so we have fun and I correct their grammar. I sit in the kitchen with the family while food is being made. I haven't convinced them to teach me how to make the food yet. I think it's a cultural thing for the guest to do nothing... We eat before bed so at 8:30. And I am so ready for sleep!