Saturday, December 27, 2014

Nepal-Year Two Pictures

The beautiful movie theatre in our district capital


Monkey




Fatty's Birthday party-leaving room for our missing Dang-ers

My birthday present to Fatty-the ugliest pants in existence?


"Make it Happen"




Art shopping!

Kathmandu



Apparently tomatoes and baby corn are interchangeable! 


A night out with Freeman, Hannah and Brittany.



Returning to Pipal Danda-my Pre-Service Training Site.



Hajur Ama


Nabin



Youths



Favorite place in Dang


On the left: bamboo used to build a traditional fish trap (like a large funnel across the whole river).



Dashain-Hajur Buba and Thule Ama


Cutting rice.




Dog worship day-Sabita giving Danny a blessing.






The ladies and Danny.

So handsome!


Crazy cat.


Nekeia giving Danny a blessing.


Love!


Bora is more of a cat person.


Although Danny loves her.


Danny hates it when I rub my feet on the lower shelf of my desk-he bites my feet, when I do.  Here he is, caught in the act.


Our house, decorated for the holidays.


Just a normal day's work.



Blessing my little sister, Sabita.
Traditional Tharu dancing.







Spot the thing that doesn't belong.




Baller


Horrifying live chicken staring at me on the bus.


Little nugget: Mac


Little nugget and big nugger.





Sabita putting mendi in my hair.

Red Head!



Tihar food-various kinds of roti(bread), fruit and nuts. 


Little brother and sister preparing the room for brother worship day.


L-R: Rosan, random "older brother", random "older brother"




Giving brothers a blessing






Receiving blessings.




Seven color tika


All the food for Tihar




Our house with half of our harvested rice. 

Halloween 2014-we did the best we could.


Bora as a Roman



Roman and Kitty Cat




Whitney Houston makeup











Dancin' in the streets




We need a lot of room.



Tequila shots.


Teaching 14 year old Nepali boys to do tequila shots. 














Ben's mushroom cultivation training.



Cutie!






I was very over having pictures taken of me. 







Danny was a kitty, for Halloween


Baibang's Women's Development Group-my homies


Supplies for my mushroom training.


Step 1. Cutting the straw


Step 2. Prepping the bags



Step 3. Washing the Straw



Step 4. Steaming the straw



Step 5. Cooling the staw



Step 6. Making the bags-layering sterilized straw and mushroom spores.











Snack time!








Moral support!



Finished product! We made 34 bags(enough for each woman to take home two bags) in 5 hours.









































Duck on the bus.


Christmas party decoration.


Dang love (Ben's face is priceless)




Snacks from America!


The Brady Bunch




Farmer's Market in Ben's VDC-These are the entries for the "Best Of" Competition-Ben's mushroom group won and my family won for their giant cauliflower.