Even small bugs take big bites!

Tuesday, August 21^st

Our room is very basic and I will never again complain about the bed at Mountain Fund. Our bed’s here have one very thin mattress if you could call it that. It is more like a comforter on a wood frame. I normally sleep on my side and let me tell you I thought I had fat hips but now I wish I had a bit more padding! It feels like bone on wood! I tried to give my body a break and lay on my back but that led to some nasty snoring that woke even myself up (sorry Hailey)!

There are no screens on the windows so we have screens hanging around our beds. This keeps the mosquitos out but there are little red ants everywhere. Let me tell you that for an insect that you can scarcely see it’s bite is pretty vicious! Not to mention even the bugs you can hardly see you can still feel crawling on your skin.

We went to a school in the town today for a few hours but they put us in with the youngest group of kids again so there really isn’t much that we can contribute. Although I am sure they appreciate some of the one on one attention with their letters. There were 35 kids in the class.

On our way back we picked up some fresh pineapple as a treat for everyone at the house. Yummy. There doesn’t seem to be a lot of fresh fruit around. Swaita told me about one fruit, similar to an apple, that was recently in season but it wasn’t familiar so I’ll have to ask her again. We have seen red apples, pineapples that are smaller than ours at home and plantains (small starchy bananas).

Back at the house we took out our pad of paper and markers as Hailey and I were making an alphabet for the Orchid Garden to put up in the classroom that I have been working in. We waived one of the boys in and Swaita to come help. This was a great icebreaker and also got the task accomplished a bit faster. We then brought out a deck of cards and taught Swaita and the boys how to play go fish, spoons and signal. It was quite fun. The power goes out every night so we had to set up flashlights in order to see but this is the routine for everyone in Nepal.