So today was absolutely amazing. We had great pancakes and spicy spaghetti for breakfast and lunch and just chilled during the morning. During the afternoon, I meet the coordinator for the placement I will be working at with the rest of my group. We will be painting the conference room at Siddhi Hospital in Bhaktapur. After meeting with the coordinator, the program coordinator name Ricardo took myself and the group I am with into the Thamel district and more into the local markets. There we stopped at many different temples but the most memorable would have to be one where there was a little boy and his mom playing. They loved to talk to us and for me to take their picture and then show them. We also went to a buddhist stupa and right beside it was a Tibetan monastery. We were allowed to enter the monastery and watch the monks do some prayers. The chanting and the actions at which they followed to pray was surreal, and extremely moving. After leaving the monastery, we all headed deeper into the local market to a sacree shop. On the way there, it was like you were going to be hit from every single direction... the traffic here is insane. We entered this one square, and it was completely jammed packed with people, tuktuks, cars, buses, etc, etc, etc. We had to push are way through the crowd (although I must was that it wasn't quite as packed as Granville and Robson on the last day of the Olympics). One we got the sacree shop, we were brought into the second level of the building and got to choose the fabric of the sacree which tehy would make for us. The array of fabrics available was unreal, with all of them being absolutely amazing, making it very hard which one to pick. I ended up with a baby blue/ turquoise fabric, with the help of the two ladies which work here at the placement. After the shop, we needed to wait around a bit and it was cool just to watch the street and the people go buy. There is such a range of activites occurring, and people dressed in many different ways. When they walked to a bangles store, and bought some bangles to go with the sacrees we had got. Again, the two ladies from the house were absolutely amazing and helped us all get what we needed. The one lady is sooo very nice and it was her reaction to the sacree and bangles which helped me to finally reach a decision. We then made are way through the hectic streets of Kathmandu, scraping but death viz motorbike a few times. Only 5 minutes back home, a motorbike caused about 5 of the girls to scream loudly, making everyone wonder what the heck had occurred. Once back at the house, we all just relaxed and ate yet another amazing meal prepared by Badri.
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Some things for people back home....
Mark: We were walking near the Tibetan monastery and I noticed this beautiful painting of Potala Palace. At the monastery, there was also a shop? located near which was demonstrating that palace. That made me think of what you had said about it and what it occurring there now.
Jasmeen and DJ Minn: While at the sacree shop, the guy there was playing a song on his phone. When the one girl (Cara) listened to this song, she discovered that it was Justin Bieber. Yes Justin Bieber has made it to Nepal. This made me think of you guys and your talks about how amazing he is haha.
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