Garbage & Passover....

So further on the topic of garbage – someone came to the house yesterday to collect our garbage. I asked one of the girls about it and I was told it isn’t the norm in Nepal and that Scott, the man who runs the Mountain Volunteer Program is most likely paying a high price for this service. The sad part is that nobody knows what actually happens to this garbage once it is taken away. In all likelihood it ends up in the river with all of the other garbage. When I asked what other households do with their garbage I was told that most would burn it, all of it, including plastic bottles, bags, etc. What doesn’t get burned is out on the street, in the gutters and in the river. In fact when we were visiting one of the historical temples on Saturday we stopped to watch for awhile because there was a river beside the temple that is considered very holly and people come from all over to dip their hands in, wash in it, splash it on themselves etc. While we were watching someone emptied a bag of flowers etc into it as an offering but then threw the bag in!

Today was a good day at the school. For some reason the ladies decided to rip apart our classroom, take out the carpets, clean the floor and clean the one or two shelves in the room. This was right up my alley, I love organizing and cleaning. We also did the usual ABC’s and 123’s. I stayed at the school until 5PM tonight because Chimmi, the teacher that I work with wanted to bring me to her church. This was quite an experience. She is trying very hard to convert me, as she is very enthusiastic about her religion. She says she is Protestant but they practice Passover and they were trying so hard to convince me of their view/interpretation of the bible it was almost like being ganged up on by Jehovah’s Witnesses.