Phase: 2 NEPAL!!!

Namaste! (translation: hello, it also means the light inside of me bows down to the light inside of you)
you ALL need to come to Nepal!

so I got here jan 2nd, the airport is a big joke. I spent 2 days in Kathmandu, more specificaly Thamel, which is the tourist ghetto. Shops like you've never seen, all selling the same things. Jewlery, pashminas, knitted clothing, trekking clothes etc. restaurants everywhere! the smallest streets ever packed with taxis, rickshaws and motorcycles. Motorcycles in Nepal is like Bikes in montreal. There are millions and they're everywhere! I met a bunch of backapackers, most heading for the mountains to trek. I then took a bus to Pokhara, the next biggest city & its closer to the mountains. The bus ride was like nothing ive ever been on before, its a 5 hr trip, you are in these sketchy old school buses & you drive through the mountains to get there. There are so many little villages on the way that are beautiful!
Im staying at the handicraft center/guest house. its super nice, and has electricity! its a 30 min walk from the orphanage, but it only takes 15 by bike. there are 72 children!!! they are sooo cute & nice. I met them all for the first time today, and im trying to learn all the names by the end of the week. (trust me its hard, the names are Nepalise and i cant pronounce half of them)
The orphanage reminds me of camp, its such a happy place and if i was any other child who lived near by I would be jealous to not be a part of it.
they call me auntie! and they call the boy volunteers uncle. there are 8 volunteers here right now, but people come and go at different times. I live in Damside, and Lakeside which is where all the tourist are is 15 mins away. Lakeside is full of stores and restaurants and bars, (its like thamel by the water) so the volunteers can hang out there, and we can spend our days off there aswell.
theres so much to do here! I want to do a 5 day trek in the mountains, and go paragliding, and go to the national park and wash elephants!
in the morning out the window from my room i can see the himalayas. they are right there! during the day they're covered in clouds though.
oh also! theres 14 hr cuts of electricity per day!! so ive stoked up on candles.
and the time difference from here to montreal is 10 hours and 45 mins. so im living life 10hrs & 45 mins before you! haha. this also means its very hard for me to call home ever, seeing as when I possibly could there is usually no electricity.

I hope you are all well & send me e-mails I love hearing from home!
bisoux