It’s been 10 days in Nepalgunj

And the electricity has been no problem at all here. One evening we just got ourselves organised with torches to continue cooking dinner and then .... on it came again. Apparently one night it was off between 2 and 7am but that didn’t interfere with my snoring. As far as this blog is concerned the challenge has been internet. The corner shop hasn’t come through with the hoped for connection on most attempts. I’ve managed a bit of a look at a few www sites but that’s been the extent of it.

Nepalgunj is great to be getting to know, a rural town, with cycle rickshaws and horse carts the local transport. It’s stretched out along one main road. We’re staying in a very nice apartment on the third level of a house on the edge of town. Our landlady has been wonderful and helped us get the fridge repaired (the light was working but it wasn’t cold). He arrived about an hour and a half after she said she would call him for us and charged us about $3AUD. Rather different to the experience I’d expect at home! We’ve also had fresh vegetables from her garden, fabulous.

Nepali language classes are going well and now with only two in the class we are getting lots of attention. Each morning we’re doing our homework and study interspersed with some practice with ever-obliging shopkeepers if we head out. Class is 1-5pm and then relax, cook and eat, surf the tv channels to see if we can find the bollywood dancing lesson show again or the news channel has got a diverting program on, then, early to bed.