[NEPAL] A Midsummer Night's Dream

Dear L：
     I am in Nepal!
     After a six hours flight which involved two plane changes, we (a group of volunteers) finally arrived here---Kathmandu. It was almost midnight. I lugged my heavy suitcases down the stairs of the hostel and wait on the curb as I watched this small country quietly dropped into sleep.

Monkey Temple illuminates in the dark sites      

     Our hostel sets along commercial street which runs through the town of Kathmandu. A group of six of us went for a walk in hopes to shake off that feeling you have after being confined for so many hours. To get the body moving, the blood flowing. We followed a series of stone paths stretching to the downtown. Salesmen were  standing along by the sides of streets, greeting customers, with some pieces of poor Chinese. Selling Nepali Souvenirs at night was a a common scene around here. 

A local fruit store in Kathmandu

        We spent the first two days in Kathmandu, then headed to Banepa (where our school locates at). A small village which is just over one hour south of Kathmandu.
      L, believe or not, nothing can be more adorable to me now than sitting under the red sunset here,enjoying each inch of fresh air around me. Some times at night I can even smell the snow from the top of those mountains. I guess it is the breeze who sends them here. 
       
       One day, after we came back from Baylor (the school I volunteered at),a Singapore girl from our group told us she had discovered a great restaurant to have afternoon tea. Even though, it turned out to be a hospital cafeteria at the end :( the milk tea they served still impressed us a lot.
       That cafeteria has gradually became our secret base. Every afternoon, four of us gather together there and drink several cups of Nepali milk tea, chatting all things about life.

    Looking outside of my balcony

"If any chance you can stay here, will you stay?" Josephine asked me yesterday.
"Well..."
I only smiled.
Because I don't quite know. 
.......
L, the only thing I know is at some point, I do wish I could live in Nepal.

Life is so pure here. 

2012/7/17