A new volunteer has arrived

Today's my official last day of volunteering with VSN. and my last day in pepsicola. will be moving to thamel to stay in the hotel with my parents tomorrow. having mixed feelings now... the whole experience feels like its just flew past me.

Spent the whole of this morning just resting in bed coz was starting to feel a bit feverish yesterday and the whole of last nite. Restrained from taking panadol coz Marty convinced me that we should let our body do self-healing instead of relyin on chemically-created medicines. So just flooded myself with bottles of water, and am quite satisfied that I'm feeling much better. Usually at the first signs of sickness, I'd reach for medication, but guess now might try to avoid it as much as I can.

Over dinner last nite, he was talkin about how our everyday diet is creating humans with a lot more deformities than previous generations ago...etc etc.. Very interesting things he brought up. But on the other hand, life is so short enough as it is, if we were to really pick on every single thing we put into our mouth, and put so much stress on ourselves worrying about what the next generation will be like due to our binging habits, what's the joy in living then? contradications...

while I was leaving the house to come to the cybercafe, met a new girl who just arrived. she'll be moving up to my room tomorrow when i'm gone. haven't had the chance to speak to her yet, but she seems quite nice, had a sort of uncertain look on her face, but thats really expected. considering how ur just whisked into a house of a stranger in a foreign land...really can be quite daunting.

everytime i write an entry in my blog, i keep feeling surprised as to how fast time has just gone past. next week will be my last week in nepal. and it's back to civilisation..and routine.. kinda looking forward to goin back to work. this trip has been a great break and really did change a lot on my outlooks on life.

thank you Sue for helping me setup this blog, or I wouldn't have been so consistent in jotting down my experience here and would have regretted that much later.

anyways, gotta head off to the orphanage now... kinda sad that i'm leaving them. will be bringing my parents on saturday to visit them one last time before we head to pokhara on sunday-wednesday.

byebye pepsicola....