This is a picture of the field behind my house. It is commonly used by boys in the neighborhood to play soccer, cricket, and just to be boys. Everyday and almost all day, there would be kids playing back there, having fun, keeping out of trouble. Now, however, it looks like this…
They [...]
Right now I’m traveling south into Bangladesh. I’m using my friends iPhone to post from the road. There is a thermometer in the car that keeps going up the further we go. It reads 34 celcius right now. Not sure in Fahrenheit, but it’s warm.
The driving is a lot like Honduras where the answer [...]
It rained tonight! Like, really rained. And it hailed like crazy. There was so much hail the girls went out and collected a bunch of it from the roof. They would hold it to their necks and act like it was a diamond necklace.
Earlier in the evening when I was walking home from dinner I [...]
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 have talked before about the smog and dirt around Kathmandu. Its incredibly dry which explains all the dirt and can be remedied by rain (oh how I cannot wait for it!). But the smog? The remedy isn’t so easy.
I was able to get a picture yesterday that illustrates the smog here. [...]
I received a text message at 845 am this morning: Hey, are you up for a bike ride out into the hills? Indeed I was. I had been anxious to go riding outside of the city (get out of the smog), test out my bike, and get back to doing something I love. Some of [...]
