Little recap
Door: Siva
11 Oktober 2008 | Nepal, Sauraha
[from Friday, Sep 26]
"On Friday, I had a Friday-feeling. Funny that. As far away as possible from the last day off, and as close as possible to the next - so you kind of treat it like a day off, here. During class I wrote a sentence from the MahaBharata on the board. It read "Trees with fruit and flowers grew by a clear river lined with soft grass that bent in the summer wind". Except for 'lined' and 'bent' they are all words they should know - so they were to copy the sentence and draw one big picture. After six consecutive days I've got favourites. Of course - who wouldn't? There's one pud-ke, tiny girl, Angu, must be about 4, had a bump and a scratch on her forehead and matching dirty face and hands the first time she blew into my classroom. A delicate sample of poor Nepali kindred anno 2008. Short, sweet and with a naughty smile if you're lucky enough to observe her in the right setting. Some other kid was playing with a pair of goat's horns after class so I put my fingers to my forehead and pretended to chase them like a bull. Angu copied that and I ended up having to fend her off my leg for about five minutes. That kind of thing."
A few days later I got her to stand on top of a table in the middle of the room, while no one had any idea why, and pretended that she had won a contest. I gave her a boiled sweet and everyone clapped for her... Obviously you had to have been there, but the look on that girl's face... worth 1000 smiles.
"Also found out why my legs are itching. At first I thought... crusty socks. Nope. Then maybe mosquito's... maybe, but not the same. So no. Then they got worse, especially in the morning... Ahh... checked the bed - saw some bugs and tried to squash them, but I couldn't because they kept leaping away. Joy to the world - fleas!"
"On Friday, I had a Friday-feeling. Funny that. As far away as possible from the last day off, and as close as possible to the next - so you kind of treat it like a day off, here. During class I wrote a sentence from the MahaBharata on the board. It read "Trees with fruit and flowers grew by a clear river lined with soft grass that bent in the summer wind". Except for 'lined' and 'bent' they are all words they should know - so they were to copy the sentence and draw one big picture. After six consecutive days I've got favourites. Of course - who wouldn't? There's one pud-ke, tiny girl, Angu, must be about 4, had a bump and a scratch on her forehead and matching dirty face and hands the first time she blew into my classroom. A delicate sample of poor Nepali kindred anno 2008. Short, sweet and with a naughty smile if you're lucky enough to observe her in the right setting. Some other kid was playing with a pair of goat's horns after class so I put my fingers to my forehead and pretended to chase them like a bull. Angu copied that and I ended up having to fend her off my leg for about five minutes. That kind of thing."
A few days later I got her to stand on top of a table in the middle of the room, while no one had any idea why, and pretended that she had won a contest. I gave her a boiled sweet and everyone clapped for her... Obviously you had to have been there, but the look on that girl's face... worth 1000 smiles.
"Also found out why my legs are itching. At first I thought... crusty socks. Nope. Then maybe mosquito's... maybe, but not the same. So no. Then they got worse, especially in the morning... Ahh... checked the bed - saw some bugs and tried to squash them, but I couldn't because they kept leaping away. Joy to the world - fleas!"
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11 Oktober 2008 - 12:32
Skatties:
Hey Timothy,
Het was indeed erg gezellig gisteren! De busreis naar Kathmandu hebben we overleefd, hotel Nana is superrelaxed. Bedankt voor de tip. Wie weet gaan we nog richting Phokara, enjoy! See ya, gr. Skatties -
11 Oktober 2008 - 18:58
Eric:
je hebt me nog laten schrikken man! begin van de week stond er een klein berichtje in de krant dat er een Nederlandse toerist is overleden in Nepal. later in het bericht bleek om een man van in de 60 te gaan, maar toch. vandaag in de metro nog een sticker tegen gekomen met Free Tibet. niet echt Nepal, maar zet je wel aan het denken. op zich wel grappig dat je nu veel meer gaat letten op berichtjes van of over Nepal.
anyway, hou je taai!
spreek je later. -
13 Oktober 2008 - 07:04
Mr E:
well barr the fleas I think you're gonna find it all hard to match at home....
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