A wedding

What a wonderful opportunity to be able to attend the marriage of the daughter of my Nepali family. The week leading up to Saturday was full of people coming and going, every day something different being cooked in our backyard, and the neighbours’ backyards some days. Puja and Dipendra had so many different duties to fulfil, some alone and others with her parents, lead by a charming and laughing priest. This all took place in the front garden, transformed for the day. Towards the end of the afternoon the bride’s father gave many gifts to Dipendra and his family before a truck was loaded up with furniture and the couple set off to his family’s home for another round of ceremony and celebration.





Farewells

The school year ends soon and our project moves from the current focus schools to new ones. That means farewells of course and farewells to the original Bhairawa volunteers who arrived in Nepal in March 2010. This week has also included the holiday for Holi, where powdered colours are smeared, thrown, mixed with water and ‘shot’ or thrown by balloon. Not that playing Holi is confined to the official holiday. As well as the three scheduled school farewells on Tuesday, because we were travelling by minibus in order to also deliver some carpet, we managed to fit in a funeral meal and a promotion party. Some days are busy!