THREE of THREE.

dear you,
here's the last in trilogy of long overdue photos.
monday was another wonderful day.
i went over to the orphanage early, like 9 and hung out with the kids for awhile.
usually they would be in school, but there was a teachers' strike or something.
the older ones were complaining about being boring so i asked them if there was somewhere we could go.
and then, presto bingo, after asking permission from lila we were off!
10 of the older kids and i hiked to chovar hill.
boys: inkumar, sanjay, sushan, bishal, raju, bikash.
girls: obsora, coleni, parmila, saru.

it's in view of the orphanage and looks about as big as it does in this picture.
on the top there's a beautiful buddhist monastery which, to my surprise, had only little girls.
they all looked like boys, tho, because they had shaved heads and were all wearing the burgundy robe things.
there's a hill next to this one that we walked over and then came out behind this one.
there was a stinky river and a pretty hindu temple that the kids all went into and came out with tika on their foreheads.

and then came a bazillion stairs.
but the view from the top was so worth it.
we went a longer way down, which was fun.
down a windy road.
past more buddhist temples, where the kids decided to pick all the flowers off the trees.
over a sketchy footbridge.
through a deserted wasteland.
and back to the orphanage.
i took a nap after we got back and then for supper, lila and goma hosted a bunch of the same people who were at the picnic.
a japanese family that he's friends with provided a huge dinner for the kids, which i'm sure they enjoyed immensely
AND he promised to give doscf nepal $500 from his company every month.
quality people right there.
oh!
also, the $1/week fundraiser thing is going well.
i think they're up to almost $500 so far!
good. but we can do better!
anyways, since a picture is worth a thousand words, i'll just upload a bunch instead of pathetically trying to describe the day.
love,
me