everyday life

It's now been about a week since i've moved to pokhara, and so far so good.
A daily routine in the life of caro:
-wake up 6:30am
-breakfast (tea & crackers) 7:00 am
-walk to the orphanage, arrive 7:30 am
-homework with the kids untill 8:30 am
-breakfast with the kids (dal vat aka rice & curry & this wierd lentil soup that goes ontop of everything) 8:30am
-help the children get dressed for school
-walk them to school 10:00 am
-back to the orphanage to sweep & mop the place
-lunch (dal vat) 11:30 am
-free time/ random jobs untill the kids are back at 3:30 pm
-playtime /art time for me!
-snack 4:30 pm
-homework (again) from 5 on
we leave to go back to our house around 5:30 pm
-dinner at home (dal vat) 7 pm
-free time
usually in bed by 9 or 9:30

crazzyy days.
we can take up to two days off a week if we want, i took sat & sunday.
Saturday me, raph, julia & ramona hiked up to Sarangkot, a village at the very top of this mountain. it took us mabey 2 & 1/2 hrs up, & 1 hour to walk to the mountain from the road.
sooo beautiful! we stoped at this yoga place along to way just to check it out & we got free homemade tea! the view was unbelivable. from the top we could see on one side the lake & pokhara, and the other side the himalayas and a big valley with a tibetan refugee camp.
we took a local bus down the hill. haha oh man... what an experience. it was ridiculously packed and a couple times i thought we might tip over. I was trying to focus really hard on the road through mabey 20 heads standing infront of me, ( and i was at the front of the bus) so that i wouldnt get car sick and puke on everyone. a lady sitting 2 rows down from me was throwing up out the window. wonderful
& today, sunday, me and 6 other volunteers rented boats (they look like big canoes painted in all these bright colours) and had a picnic out on the water while we sunbathed... just to rub it in, Im in shorts today!
so our days off have been really fun. we always try to plan an adventure or something to do!

oh btw, in the news paper today, they said they're extending the power cut to 16hrs a day.
& a downside about nepal, it is super poluted. there are no garbage cans anywhere along the roads so the streets & much of the water is filled with garbage. they have no "garbage pick up days" so everyone burns the garbage in their fields. it smells terrible and is so bad for the environment, it sucks.

ps. i had a dream last night that i went home for the weekend just to see everyone & then came right back

sending you all love