Friday, 13th of February 2009. My First visit to the Children!!
Friday, 13th of February 2009, my first visit to the children!!
Rise and shine, the sun is out, a nice warm day.
To Mahendra Pool again with Bicky, a taxi driver, arranged by H.E.
He proved to be a treasure.
We were on the mission of trying to find a World Globe, thinking that would be a hard, maybe even an impossible task.
Not with Bicky as company!
We arrived at a bookshop and Bicky was determined NOT to leave this shop, unless we had everything that was on our list.
He made the kind of lazy staff of the book ‘kiosk’ jump and run to get what we wanted.
The world globe was to our big surprise not a problem at all. Just only mentioning the word ‘globe’ made one of the boys showing up with a world globe in English AND one in Nepali!
Problem no.1 sorted: the English globe from OUR money for the Shining Star Boarding School. (2 euro!!!)
The Nepali globe a present from Rita for the school in Chitwan.
Next on the list for the Chitwan teachers:
a book about World History, in the Nepali language. With the help of Bicky we finally got two of the same copies of a good teaching book.
a book for teaching Science, again in the Nepali language.
Geography, Nepali
English Language, Nepali
Teaching Mathematics, Nepali
and 1 more copy of the so desired Ekta school Atlas (from Rita)
Mission completed, all for the amount of: 16 Euro!!
Next thing on our list: a computer shop, where I could by an USB stick. The USB I brought with me from home was somehow full (???).
I now have an USB stick of 4GB for 12 euro.
Happy with this successful ‘quick’ shopping we asked Bicky to bring us to a nice place somewhere in the sun for a drink. Of course he took us to a restaurant of a relative of his, but it was situated in a nice garden, away from the dusty big road, so fine with us.
Back in Lake Side to finally go and see the children for the first time!!!
They were playing in the garden; some were in the study room. Binod was one of the first who spotted us, Rita is here, Rita is here!
Every where it was NAMASTE RITA!!!
Curious as they are, to Rita2: what is your name, where are you from?
Most of the kids were in the study room. The exams are coming up soon and every day at 16.00 a teacher is coming to the house to help them with their homework. Also there is a volunteer, Kay, a young girl, English but she speaks fluently Nepali!!!
After two hours Rita wanted to go back to her room, not feeling that well.
For our diner to Teatime. The waiter there recognized me and even showed us ‘my’ table from last year!
A nice meal, but it did upset my stomach a bit: it blew up like an elephant again. I think it also had to do with the build up tension of seeing the kids for the first time. It surely made it clear to me that next time when I am arriving in Pokhara, no matter what time and/or how tired I am, I will go straight to the house to see them. Not this unnecessary build up of tension emotionally!
A night cap and back to the room, where we went to sleep around 23.00 o’clock.
Suba Rathri
Sanghita
Rise and shine, the sun is out, a nice warm day.
To Mahendra Pool again with Bicky, a taxi driver, arranged by H.E.
He proved to be a treasure.
We were on the mission of trying to find a World Globe, thinking that would be a hard, maybe even an impossible task.
Not with Bicky as company!
We arrived at a bookshop and Bicky was determined NOT to leave this shop, unless we had everything that was on our list.
He made the kind of lazy staff of the book ‘kiosk’ jump and run to get what we wanted.
The world globe was to our big surprise not a problem at all. Just only mentioning the word ‘globe’ made one of the boys showing up with a world globe in English AND one in Nepali!
Problem no.1 sorted: the English globe from OUR money for the Shining Star Boarding School. (2 euro!!!)
The Nepali globe a present from Rita for the school in Chitwan.
Next on the list for the Chitwan teachers:
a book about World History, in the Nepali language. With the help of Bicky we finally got two of the same copies of a good teaching book.
a book for teaching Science, again in the Nepali language.
Geography, Nepali
English Language, Nepali
Teaching Mathematics, Nepali
and 1 more copy of the so desired Ekta school Atlas (from Rita)
Mission completed, all for the amount of: 16 Euro!!
Next thing on our list: a computer shop, where I could by an USB stick. The USB I brought with me from home was somehow full (???).
I now have an USB stick of 4GB for 12 euro.
Happy with this successful ‘quick’ shopping we asked Bicky to bring us to a nice place somewhere in the sun for a drink. Of course he took us to a restaurant of a relative of his, but it was situated in a nice garden, away from the dusty big road, so fine with us.
Back in Lake Side to finally go and see the children for the first time!!!
They were playing in the garden; some were in the study room. Binod was one of the first who spotted us, Rita is here, Rita is here!
Every where it was NAMASTE RITA!!!
Curious as they are, to Rita2: what is your name, where are you from?
Most of the kids were in the study room. The exams are coming up soon and every day at 16.00 a teacher is coming to the house to help them with their homework. Also there is a volunteer, Kay, a young girl, English but she speaks fluently Nepali!!!
After two hours Rita wanted to go back to her room, not feeling that well.
For our diner to Teatime. The waiter there recognized me and even showed us ‘my’ table from last year!
A nice meal, but it did upset my stomach a bit: it blew up like an elephant again. I think it also had to do with the build up tension of seeing the kids for the first time. It surely made it clear to me that next time when I am arriving in Pokhara, no matter what time and/or how tired I am, I will go straight to the house to see them. Not this unnecessary build up of tension emotionally!
A night cap and back to the room, where we went to sleep around 23.00 o’clock.
Suba Rathri
Sanghita
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