Happy Lhosar

Happy Lhosar!! Lhosar is the new years celebration for Tibetans and Sherpas. On this day Sherpas start by going to the eldest family's house. They must bring some food or drinks. At the house we were served salt tea, special snacks and food.


Tea is served in this special cup.
This is my favorite treat!

This is what I first had at Tsering's House. This had nuts and Chhang (Alcohol).
It was tasty~
I'm in the prayer room.
I love this holiday because we get to eat!
Tsering is an amazing cook~

Mountain Biking

I went with a friend to go mountain biking around the northern part of the Kathmandu Valley. As a group we went around 9am and came back around 1pm. On the way we stopped twice to get some snacks. The view, got a little muddy and got to know other foreigners. It was a good time!

At the beginning of the ride it was foggy then it cleared up.
I really enjoyed being in the fresh air~It was nice to see something green~

Book shopping and library days

I went book shopping with a few friends. We bought around 100 books, some games, and charts.
This trip was to get some Nepali books. We got more teacher reference books for art and math classes.
We got some great charts for each of the five class rooms.
Here's a box full of supplies for Phaplu! 20 posters, a few box set of books and Nepal books.
now at my current volunteer school...This is SIS's library. It is in an attic.

The school can't afford a full time librarian. It is hard to keep track of books. So I was thinking what is the next best thing. I asked the headmaster for permission to clean up the library with some students. I hope to form a committee who can manage the books but first we are cleaning and organizing the books.
Our first step as a group is to asset what the library has. Every morning one hour before school starts (at 9) we go upstairs to clean. In their free periods they also come up to work more.
They are working very hard! I hope we can form a student run library system.The students are scrubbing the shelves.
Some organized shelves and they are separated by grade and subject.

Meet the group of girls from 7th and 8th grade. (We are missing two more girls from this picture.)