First day of school (and whetever else i want to share)

first day of class was AMAZING! there are only two of us tho which is ok because we get more one on one teaching! my classmates name is Harimaya and she is from an outside town in the rural area about 5 hours from Kathmandu. her daughter is my age too and likes soccer! she also told me that i have perfect pronunciation of the Nepali words =] she is also teaching me a lot about the culture. we plan on going shopping this weekend and just taking a walk and talking about life and our personal views as well as cultural views.

For our first assignment i had to go out and make a list of 80-100 english words and find one random person who speaks Nepali tell me those words in their language and i had to write it out myself! i learned so much =]
Harimaya had to do the same for her assignment but a different language called Gurung.

Fun Fact: There are around 100 different languages in Nepal alone and none of them understand each other. Nepali is used as the lingua franca or linking language to help communicate with the other languages.

So now imagine this scenario: A man from the Gurung mother tongue marries a woman of the Newari mother tongue, they use Nepali to communicate. so gradually as a result of this it just becomes Nepali throughout. this means that slowly the other mother tongues are dying out. i thought that was kinda cool.

we have three or four tea/coffee breaks a day and the tea is green tea in which they add milk and two spoons of cane sugar. my favorite beverage here besides the fresh mango juice! the coffee is also surprisingly good at the school... that means a lot coming from me aha! they take the coffee grounds first and then pour the hot water on top, at the same time adding milk and cane sugar. it comes out to have a cinnamon-y mint flavor? very strange but delicious haha =]
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i also found out that i have to teach my first class on the 13th already!! ahh i am very nervous about that...

keep checkin the photos every day!! and leave me comments! i miss everyone =]

much love.