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| I am back in Kathmandu now. I went and visited a remote village in the mountains. It was amazing to see how 80% of people in Nepal live. The details on all that will have to wait until I get back home. Speaking of that I only have a few days left here in Kathmandu then I will be going off to Thailand for some days and then LA for a day and then the plan is to be home on Christmas Eve.
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| Today I move out of my room. I still have a couple more weeks here but most of that time is out of Kathmandu. Tomorrow morning Molly, I, and Jyoti go to Jyoti's inlaws place in some village. She told me that name of the place and all along I thought she was talking about a village but after looking at a map it is more like a region with many villages. It is the lower part of Nepal so it jungle area. The kind of jungle talked about in Jungle Book, you know Tigers, Elephants, Parrots, Monkeys, Rhinos and Coberas. We will be there for three days picking coffee and papyas, and going hunting for birds with a guelli (slingshot). After the 3 days there then Molly and I take a bus to Pokera where we will meet up with Brook and her brother, who is visiting from the States, and do our debriefing of our time her. Then come back to Kathmandu at the end of next week for a hand full of days before the flight is scheduled to leave.
My family is starting to get sad of me leaving. Last week Nabin told me that Anissa will stop eating when I leave and I will have to get a picture framed on the wall of me so they can tell her that I am still there with them. I heard the same thing happened when Calvin left. One of the kids from the family he stayed with did not eat for quite some time after him leaving back to the States.
Oh yeah, other things happening in Nepal... The Civil War is over that has been going on for the past decade. The same day of elections back in America the Maoists here were excepted into the government.
Other big news that happened that week was 400,000 bibles went out over all over the country. That is probably something like 5% of the population.
Off the the Friday morning prayer meeting,
Ben
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| This afternoon after church we finally got the family picture taken. I have been trying to get it done for the past 2 months but it never seems to happen. We took another picture of me in it. Nabin said they are going to put that one up on the wall because once I leave Anica will not want to eat so they are going to tell her that she can eat because a picture of me is up so I am present with them.
It looks like I will not be writing much more than this for the rest of the time here because of time. I will be putting up some pictures though and a few words but probably nothing like my first posts 3 months ago when I got here. Man, I had so much time then. But I guess the less I write the more I have to talk about when I get home.
Here are the pictures:
 Then there is Anica being herself.
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| The Maoist were accepted their into the government last week so there was no big rally to see if they had to take over the city. This was a major victory and change in governement. It was bizarre though because at the same time it was election day in America where the change was also happening.
Time is getting thin here as I approach next month. It is a month until my flight leaves Kathmandu.
Brook talks of how sometimes it is hard to write back home because life is normal here but to others reading it is exciting to read all of what is going on (there is the demand). I find that I relate to the challenge to write as well. Life is slow here, but at the same time it is so extremely fast paced. Not like I am running arround the whole time but my schedule is packed and it does seem like I am going going going trying to meet up with people so hungry for my time. Then once you get to the destination the Nepali culture is there waiting to try and slow things by sitting down and drinking tea and talking. Then once I leave someone I come across wants to know why I have not met with them in some time.
For example this past week I scheduled with Angel to shoot some video of his childrens' home. I met with him and planned it out that it would be that day. Angel had been talking about this for the past couple of months and we discussed it. When we decided on date it was not a spur of the moment but thought what day would work best. I told him I had to make it soon because with only a few more weeks my time is getting thin. So last Wednesday comes and I go to his flat but he was not there. His wife said he went to his village instead(5 day trip). I was not annoyed with him being gone or anything but I know what will happen is he will still be very eager to do video even after I told him that that date was the only time I could do it, since it would take the whole day. I have not talked to him since. Though things like this one feels the cultural differences of the how important dates and times really are.
I have a really funny story that happened a few weeks ago, but I am afriad it will take so long for me to type out the whole story. I may just have to keep it in my memories and share it in person.
Some of you like to see pictures, so here is just some random shot at the bus stop where I go twice a week for my 4 hour ride out across Kathmandu.
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