Two sisters, Suvekshya and Ashika walked up the hill with me after school today and their family
asked me to join them for tea. Ashika was only three and the youngest in the school when I was here last year. They are both bright, motivated gentle children as are their parents and extended family. Grandparents, parents and uncles all live together on this small farm. 

 

 

 

The people of Nepal  are very  hospitable and always offer food and drink to visitors.   It is not polite to refuse but I could only manage to eat  one of  the oranges given to me.  They are on the stool next to my rucksack in the picture.   The remaining fruit was put in my bag to bring home.

Ashika, Grandmother, Suvekshya in traditional Nepali top, and their very young mother.

A little further along the path  I was called over to another smallholding  and given yet more oranges.

Further up the hill I heard the screech of monkeys and saw a troop in the trees following me up the track.   Perhaps they were after my oranges!