We are aliiiivvveee! Those homeopathic, organic jet lag pills may have actually worked after all. Although C may or may not have died a little when we first got here, she seems to have regained her strength. It took every ounce of willpower not to go to bed at 6....so we went to bed at 7. The hostel cooked us a pretty good dinner of chicken curry and rice but as we were in the middle of focusing super hard to eat only with our right hands (eating with your left hand is considered gross, because its supposed to be the hand you use to go to the washroom) the power went out. This wasn't like the power went out but you could still see...this was pitch black. Little did we know that this happens every night! something about cutting the power for two hours? Thank goodness for generators.
Today we experienced our first public bus ride. We're slowly becoming accustomed to the third word way of life. Anywho, the bus told us they would stop in Thamel, but really they just stop where they feel like. Thank goodness we were with some girls from the hostel (Anna from Germany and...Shira from Denmark) and they knew how to get to Thamel from where the bus sorta spat us out. We walked through a very non-touristy part of kathmandu which was very eye opening. Shira explained to us that no matter how desperate some people look we should never give beggers money because it just adds to the aready soaring inflation.
We saw more cows (LYING in the middle of the street all high and mighty with their sacred rights), a lot of chidren on the street. One was even going to the bathroom right on the sidewalk. And we don't mean public urination like how Colin (C's bf) likes to write his name in the snow. This was no snowbank. Something to get used to i guess.
We're off to our orphanage in an hour and are super excited to meet the kids and play. We have our iodine tablets so we're ready to kick some Giardia ass.
Honk Honk (the official sound of Kathmandu),
J & C
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