Friday 2/9 2011

Friday 2/9 2011
Today has been our first day of our program for the month. We started out with breakfast after a good night’s sleep - finally..! and were in for an unusual meal. We had toast, which we all know either with jam, butter, peanut butter or others. But what we hadn’t expected was cornflakes, YES delicious everyone likes cornflakes, until they have tasted it with warm milk… what to say, quite different, but something that we will get used to, I guess.

After breakfast we went outside to our first class which included a warm welcome from Rikke and Anjana followed by in introduction to the program for the next month in Nepal. We sat outdoor to enjoy the good view and weather, which is also surprisingly good considering that September should be the last month of the rainy season. Anyway, the class was about ourselves and our expectations and concerns for our journey in Nepal. To get to know each other at bit we made drawings of how we had ended up at the same platform here in Nepal, all of the drawings where quite good even though several claimed they weren’t talented drawers…

Afterwards we were told to write a letter for ourselves, which we will get back when we leave the platform. The letter should contain 3 challenges and 3 goals. Writing a letter to yourself was kind of odd, but I think it is one of the best ways to realize how far you have come and how much you have experienced and learned after the 4 months. I hope that reading this letter in 4 weeks will convince me that I AM able to live and enjoy India for 3 month!

3.pm. : Class is off.. 3.30 pm. and we are on our way to Thamel (or something) in 4 taxis, all squeezed together in the back of a small Suzuki. For the next 2 hours we were in the tourist part of Kathmandu, experiencing the wild traffic, the many street dogs, the women dressed in beautiful and colorful saris -or what you call it - and all of the shop owners trying to sell us the same things on every street.
Now 9 pm. We are having a good time by the computers, checking out facebook !!