Category Archives: sports

The Real Football

Football here is that sport where you kick a ball around. The real football, however, is the sport where you throw and kick the ball the around. And there’s nothing like a little Saturday college football. Unless, of course, its Sunday. I woke up at 5:30 this morning (Sunday) and a [...]

P.J. and the Flying Nepali

See PJ.

See PJ’s bellayer.

See PJ fall.

See PJ’s bellayer go flying.
Ok, so I didn’t get a picture of the Flying Nepali. But I still got a great story…
The setting: Rock Climbing, Kathmandu
Me, PJ, and a couple other friends go rock climbing. Most places have tie downs in which the person bellaying [...]

Back in KTM!

I’m back in Kathmandu! I had a great time in Bangladesh, but its good to be home. I will post more about my trip as soon as I can go through the 1000 pictures I took.
For now, I wanted to share my trip back. To begin, I found out that I was [...]

It’s That Time of Year!

Baseball! Tomorrow the season begins at 1:10. The Reds take on Santana and the Mets. Its gonna be good. Unfortunately I won’t be there. I had tickets last year, but I ended up in Guatemala instead. It was a fair trade.
Baseball was even spoken about today in church. [...]

Shootin’ Some B-ball Outside a’ School.

As you recall, I challenged myself this week to get out there and practice Nepali since I don’t have class.  Well, God went easy on me and put opportunities right in my lap!
I have to admit I didn’t do anything on Monday.  I spent the day around the house doing odds and ends.  But Tuesday [...]

Put Me In Coach, I’m Ready To Play Today

Sports are an interesting thing here in Nepal.  Badminton can be seen being played on all the street corners as well as ping-pong.  Soccer (excuse me, football) is very popular as well.  But there is another well known, but little understood (at least in the States) game played here in Nepal: cricket.  India and Sri [...]

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