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15 augustus 2009 | Door: Maartje

Final entry

I am home. After a long journey with again a delay. This time in Delhi. My luggage arrived this morning, at school even! I had my first "start up" meeting at school this morning and I did feel a bit out of place. Still in culture shock (it's worse ...

Kathmandu - Nepal

11 augustus 2009 | Door: Maartje

Samsara

Sunday, August 9th Thursday night and Friday morning were spent quietly with Zach and Max being in KTM and me still being a bit under the weather. My temp was still up on Thursday night, but I had a good night sleep, and Friday morning I felt ...

Kathmandu - Nepal

6 augustus 2009 | Door: Maartje

It cannot get any better than this....

Monday, aug. 3 No classes today. All the monks are preparing for their big 6 weeks retreat which starts this Wednesday. For 6 weeks they cannot leave the monastery. I only taught Sungye this morning and will do again on Tuesday, but for the rest of ...

Kathmandu - Nepal

31 juli 2009 | Door: Maartje

More pictures

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=95955&id=821262240&l=29ea311af0 (Bakthapur weekend) http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=95951&id=821262240&l=de4514f7e0 (monkey business) Enjoy! M.

Kathmandu - Nepal

30 juli 2009 | Door: Maartje

Arsenal monks

Wednesday, Shalala didn’t last long, fortunately. Yesterday I was fully recovered and I could eat, drink and teach again. The football outfits are bought. Zach went down with Anu and another monk to buy them and they look great. They opted for ...

Kathmandu - Nepal

27 juli 2009 | Door: Maartje

Shalala-li, Shalala-la

Monday, July 27, 2009 Well, first time for everything…Shalala-time. And Shalala is not song. No Sir. Shalala is the Nepali word for diarrhea. Need I say more? So a good start of the week. It’s not too bad really, plus it’s pouring down ...

Kathmandu - Nepal

23 juli 2009 | Door: Maartje

Picture time (finally!!)

Thursday Yesterday (Wednesday) Special Puja day and Solar eclipse day. We woke up by 5.20am. Fixed coffee and went on the roof of the monastery. The eclipse was visible, we were lucky. It wasn’t what I expected though, I thought the world would ...

Kathmandu - Nepal

21 juli 2009 | Door: Maartje

On top of the world (on top of a bus...)

Monday July 20, 2009 I don’t remember where I left off last time I wrote. It’s now Monday and I had the most amazing weekend. I think I wrote from Bhupi’s office on Thursday. We left there at 4pm to take the bus to Bandipur. When we got to ...

Kathmandu - Nepal

16 juli 2009 | Door: Maartje

Weekend-break

Wednesday 15/7 After the class with Kempho I had my 11 o'clock with Sungye. He's 23 and he actually fled Tibet at the age of 17. Together with 6 friends they walked for 2 weeks before reaching KTM.His friends all have jobs in town, and he is the ...

Kathmandu - Nepal

15 juli 2009 | Door: Maartje

Everything on Nepali time

Monday, July 13, 2009 The rest of the day Sunday it rained. Dinner was awful. Just a bit of dhal baat (lintels and rice) and I was so hungry. Around 9 pm I started getting ready for bed when I heard Max (24, Canada) and Zach (23, US) outside, ...

Kathmandu - Nepal

15 juli 2009 | Door: Maartje

Everything on Nepali time

Kathmandu - Nepal

12 juli 2009 | Door: Maartje

Monastery life

Here I am, in my room at the Monastery. It’s Saturday July 11th (I think) and I am waiting for the bell to ring to have dinner. But let me first back up to Thursday and onwards. In the morning I went into Thamel and found a skirt. Still in the ...

Kathmandu - Nepal

9 juli 2009 | Door: Maartje

This is Portobello Road, not KTM, what happened?

What happened was that I started out delayed. VERY delayed. By the time I landed at Heathrow, my flight to Dehli had already left. No biggie, spent the night in a hotel at HRW airport and made friends. Cause that's what you do. Met this fun girl ...

Kathmandu - Nepal

6 juli 2009 | Door: Maartje

And she's off.....

With 25 kgs. worth pens/pencils, games, inflatable globes, a worldmap, Disney sing-a-long CD's, storybooks, teaching materials, crayons, lots of Deet, a Lonely Planet and a few clothes, I am ready to go! We, meaning YOU (!) came up with a grand ...

Amsterdam - Nederland

3 juli 2009 | Door: Maartje

Counting down

Three more days... I cannot wait. I just received an e-mail from Bhupi (my contact and chairman of VIN). Wanted to share this with you, because it makes me so happy. Check out the Youtube links below (especially the monastry&nunnery one, that's ...

Amsterdam - Nederland

8 juni 2009 | Door: Maartje

Fundraising and preperation

Hi, Well, things are going well... so much money already in the pocket (I'll announce the final amount as a surprise just before I leave). Bhupi (my contact in Nepal) and I are in contact daily (provided he has electricity). He wrote a summary ...

Amsterdam - Nederland

23 april 2009 | Door: Maartje

It's the journey, not the destination.....

Ik ben heftig aan het voorbereiden. E-mails heen en weer naar Nepal om accomodatie en informatie boven tafel te krijgen. Afspraak reisdokter, paklijsten, sponsorship voor materiaal aanvragen (met dank aan www.berlitz.com en de ISA), inlezen, noem ...

Amsterdam - Nederland

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