michaela daye.: recently: ONE of THREE.

dear you,
www.docsfoundationnepal.blogspot.com
i apologize for dropping off the side of the world.
a combination of laziness, busyness, and lack of a flash drive is my excuse.
but anyways,
last time we talked, i had just come back from trekking in poon hill, which was fabulous.
despite hobbling around like an old woman, i got to met a new friend the next day!
her name is kathy ruiz diaz, and she's been living here for around 2 years.
her husband is the anesthesiologist at scheer memorial hospital, where i went to church my first sabbath here.
a cool thing is that she graduated from MVA like i did.
small world.
it was nice to hear about all the things she and her daughter and her daughter's friends have been doing.
she has a blog, if you're interested.
www.himalayanhappenings.blogspot.com

*note: these events are probably not in chronological order because i have a horrible memory
i also got to go see the hunger games movie :D
AWW YYEEAAHH.
the theater was actually pretty nice, but very different.
there was an intermission, you have assigned seats, and the popcorn was just lightly salted, which i think is way better anyways.

i went with sudha, suvash, and suvash's brother, sudeep (spelling?)

indira and urusha took me to boudha, the biggest buddhist stupa in the world.
it looks exactly like all the others stupas, cept it's bigger.
it was nice :)

there were a lot of people meditating and praying on little wooden mat things.
that was just the beginning of the girliness.
a couple days later all four of us girls went out for some shopping.
i did the shopping, they helped me get the native rate, as opposed to the tourist rate.
scarves for 200 Rps.
LIKE A BOSS.
they made me drink this "soda" that just tasted like sea water.
so gross.
so i gave mine to matina :P
we bought a buttload of junkfood and had a lovely time stuffing our faces, while watching vampire diaries.
they're obsessed with that show.
i don't really like vampire stuff, but let me tell you.
it was way better than twilight.
i spent two nights with the girlies and got my fill of being girly :)

i did some more girly things with sudha too!
she bought some mehndi and doodled all over my foot.
it actually looks pretty good, in my opinion.
she and suvash came over for 3 days to celebrate a festival called dashain.
it's kinda like a end of the year reminder to pray and say goodbye to the old year.
she dressed me up in one her saris, which was fun.
it was actually one of the two saris she wore for her wedding!
i feel very honored to have been allowed to wear it.
they wanted me to have "tops", their name for earrings, but since i don't have holes in my ears they stuck the pointy part INTO my ear and clamped it around the back.
painful, but still way better than piercing my ears like goma keeps insisting i should do :P
we had a dance party in our saris and ate lots of food while looking fabulous, obviously.

get a load of the sky!

best attempt at a jumping picture.

BLING.

they also had a big puja ceremony in the house to say farewell to the old year and make sure all their sins from the year were forgiven.
they built a fire pit in the middle of the kitchen!
it was pretty tho.
goma also went over to the hostel and gave snacks and tika to all the kids.
they all looked to excited to get something cool like that :)