Monday September 5, 2011

Monday September 5, 2011
Today it is Charlotte’s birthday so most of us woke her early this morning with a birthday song and a present. She was a bit surprised, but happy.
We had our first day with classes today. We started with language, where Anjana taught us about Nepali and wrote our names on the board, it was very funny to see our own names look so strange. We also learned to pronounce some basic words in Nepali, and a few in Hindi. It was hard, because a lot of the words are so different from Danish and Norwegian. After a break we heard about social structure and the Caste System, which is so far from everything we know, but it was very exciting to hear Rikke and especially Anjanna telling about it. For the ones who are going to India or staying here in Nepal it is something, we will be exploring on our one so it was nice to gets some information about how the System influences the people, who lives by its rules.

After lunch Charlotte had bought Nepali cakes for all, which was very nice, but also sweeter than we are used to. It was decorated with eatable silver, and looked so pretty in laying in the box. After having explored something new, we talked about gender and how it influences us and the Asian societies. In association to this we had a small quiz, which lead to a smaller debate. It is nice to meet people with strong opinions. This was our last class of the day and everybody went out to enjoy our spare time. The boys played soccer with some local boys; most of the girls went to a park to celebrate Charlotte’s birthday and the rest just hanged out in our neighborhood.

Right now I can hear some of the others playing Ping Pong, it sounds like it is a very important game and a lot of fun too.