…thirteen year old farmgirls want to grow up to be farmers, it seems. “If you could do anything you wanted to when you grow up, what would you do?” We asked Saru.
“Probably work in the fields here,” she said. “Well, I love it, and it would give enough time to hang out with my friends.”
Saru’s [...]
Yesterday was a big workday for us. Out the door at 7:45am, back in the door at 7:45pm. We were met by a cleaver-wielding drunk, bitten by a leech, took our lunch at an hourly-rental ‘love hotel’, had a grapefruit sized rock hurtle down the hill where we were interviewing and smash into the precious [...]
Yesterday we visited with and briefly interviewed one party to the Creation Story of the Little Sisters Fund.
It’s a sweet story that I don’t want to spoil here, but Bindhaya was the first girl that Trevor Patzer was introduced to after he asked Usha Acharya how he might help the country of Nepal.
We had met [...]
Ringmo Restaurant, one of Kathmandu’s very first restaurants (36 years old, according to Dil, a co-owner), is right up the street from us.
They’re serving the food we’ve been looking for. The menu is humble and 100% homemade, as far as I can tell.
So far we’ve eaten the best hot-and-sour soup either of us has ever [...]
First impressions of Kathmandu=less surprised, more delighted. So chill. Yes, it’s kind of got that riotous ‘civilized chaos’ thing going, but it’s so friendlylike and folks are really nice. Not that we’d been given reason to expect otherwise, of course.
It was a long day of gathering gear for the trek, mostly. Amy and I had [...]
