25^th October

As it is a festival  tomorrow the primary school children had a fun day today with little formal school work.   I was given a tika mark by one of the locals on my walk, but I was so hot and sticky that it started running down my face.

I was asked again to go to years 4 and 5 but said no firmly this time.

  Instead I stayed with 2 Primary teachers and we had 3 classes together in one room. 

 The discipline is not good.  The children have not been taught to put up their hands or sit quietly.  I showed them  my  puppet and said that he wouldn’t come out to see them if it was noisy, and it worked!   For a few minutes you could have heard a pin drop.   Hopefully the teachers might pick up on the idea.

There is now no school for 4 days so I hope to go to Pokhara and find an internet café so that I can post this.   The next time I will have an opportunity will probably be Saturday.

It has just started raining – very heavily and the noise on the roof of my bedroom is deafening.   I am looking at a small ghekko and a large spider having a race up the wall opposite me.   I am not very keen on either of them. 

26^th October

Have had a very relaxing morning walking along a small track looking at grasshoppers of various sizes, and a preying mantis or two.  The herbs and wild plants smell wonderful and have picked a handful to scent my room.  Even though I am wearing socks trainers and trousers something has managed to bit my ankles and anthisan is now a necessary part of my kit.   I have managed to get a lift to Pokhara this afternoon – hopefully and also asked a local guide to buy a cheap mobile for me then I can go walking without fear of getting totally lost.  

Had a brief moment of panic when the netbook wouldn’t start up and got jammed on some sort of repair.   Luckily when I removed the battery and started again all was well.