Today was Ghora Jatra in Kathmandu. It is the horse (ghora) festival celebrated annually in Kathmandu. I’m not certain, but I asked a guy on the street what the significance of it was. He said there was a demon that killed children and the horses would parade in a circle to force [...]
A friend of mine shared this link with me. It links you to 27 AMAZING pictures of Holi. I didn’t see it celebrated en masse as some of these pictures portray, but it was certainly just as colorful here. Check them out!
Holi Pictures
Now you can see why I didn’t want to take [...]
I ventured out a bit today and grabbed a few pictures of the Holi celebration. These guys were outside my gate much of the morning. All throughout the valley you could hear screams and shouts of excitement. There would be a pre-attack calm, then the shouts and screams of the attack, and [...]
Another holiday and I get a four day weekend! I will not, however, be heading out of doors to enjoy it. Instead I have holed myself up in my house and will enjoy it from the rooftop if I want to go outside. You see Tuesday is Holi, the festival of colors, [...]
I met a new American family in Kathmandu Sunday. They are originally from Cleveland, but we will forgive them for that. The man, PJ, is interested in taking language classes at the same school as I. I invited him to come along with me today to check out the class. But [...]
I was abruptly awoken yesterday morning at 6:30 am by the sound of gunshots from automatic weapons. I was amazed at how loud it was. I heard it from the west and it echoed back off the mountains from the east. The shots were in celebration of Democracy Day (just one of the 53 government [...]
Wow. Two weeks of class finished. It flew by faster than the winds of September 14, 2008. If this keeps up it’ll be the end of June before I can even think about March.
On Valentine’s Day I went over to the Unruh’s for dinner. We had a good time just hanging out, talking about politics, [...]
Twenty, thirty years ago people would not believe this. With technology these days, however, it has become everyday.
This picture was taken in Cincinnati of me in Nepal. I was talking to my family on Christmas over Skype. I can communicate instantly from half-way around the world. Like I said, this has [...]
The year 2009 is only two hours away here in Nepal, as I am ten hours and 45 minutes ahead of Cincinnati here in Kathmandu. Forty-five minutes? I know, strange.
But not as strange as the fact that officially it is the year 2065 in Nepal. Nepal uses the Bikram Sambat lunar callendar. [...]
Well I can definitely say that Christmas Day was interesting, if nothing else. It began on a rough note, hit a few highs, and ended with a feeling of indifference.
The Nepali Christmas service was a neat experience, but frustrating at the same time. There were probably a couple thousand people at the service. All the [...]
