the orphanage is really moving!

managed to get back safe and sound from Thamel this morning all by myself. chase fell sick so she took a cab back to the house but I needed to run some errands in the morning, hence i had to come back alone. It was actually quite easy, just need to shout out your destination to the boy hanging on to the side of the bus and he'll tell you if the bus is going there or not.

here's the route: walk about half an hour from thamel to the bus park called Ratnapark. Catch a bus to Baneswor, pay 9 ruppees, catch another bus to Pepsicola and pay another 9 ruppees. It takes bout 15 mins to walk from the main road to the house. even though the buses have no numbers, no words in english, and they look like they're falling apart, but at least the boys working on the buses have been quite helpful by giving correct directions about where the bus is going.

had quite a nice time at the school today. couldn't be bothered to follow their textbooks coz it seemed so boring, so I ended up devising my own things to teach them or played games with some classes.

on the walk back from the school, i stopped by at the orphanage coz i saw a truck with some beds and furniture that seemed to be from the orphanage. Saw the woman-in-charge of the orphanage and she told me that they will be moving today. I offered to help but she said everything was in a mess, so she told me to only go over tomorrow. So I've got the rest of the afternoon off... sighh..now that they've moved, everyday i'll need to change 2 buses to reach their new home. arghh...so not looking forward to commuting.

time passes quite quickly here in nepal. its already 4pm, and in a couple of hours its bedtime.

some general things that i realised i used to take for granted back home:

1) Hot water shower - having a hot shower on Saturdays in Thamel is like the only thing we look forward to in the week.

2) toilet paper / tissue paper - we can barely get these from any of the local shops around because ppl here just don't use them. don't ask me how they blow their noses coz i dont think they do. or they just blow it onto the roads like how they spit on the roads all the time. i had to stock-up on tissue when i was in thamel (the touristy area).

3) washing machine - i've HAND-WASHED my clothes once and will need to do another round tomorrow. so lazy to do it but i've got no choice coz the air's so dusty here that everytime we go out, the shirt will just feel too dirty to wear a second time. wringing your jeans with your hands is no joke.

4) My own car - Having been here for 2 weeks and only commuting mostly by foot or by public bus to the city, I realise how much I miss my car. Last time I even used to complain when the carpark is a bit further away from the entrance of the shopping mall. Think I probably will think twice about complaining after all the walking I've done here.

.....there's many more things really, but these are the main ones that I've personally felt stronger about.

anyways, enough of my ramblings for now. will just stone a bit before heading back to the house. think it'll be a quiet night ahead..... will have to think of what to teach tomorrow... la la la...