Hello!
So we are back from trekking alive and well, as Nils announced. It would take much too much time to cover everything we did, so I'll just have to cover some highlights. We became friends with some other trekkers - a group of 3 Germans, and a group of 3 Minnesotans who happened to be going the same way we were. We saw tons of beautiful sights and places. The star were amazing as Nils noted. We went for a polar bear swim in Gosaikund lake, which is at about 13,000 ft, and is absolutely freezing cold. There was snow on the ground. The Germans had the idea originally. It was fun, and we all managed to survive without hypothermia somehow. We experienced the unique cuisine of the mountains, which includes "Snicker Momo", which is essentially a turnover filled with chocolate, caramel, and peanuts. It's suprisingly a lot better than it sounds. We took an amazing day hike (on our rest day, haha) to 14,100 ft, which afforded us the most spectacular view of the Langtang range, and the surrounding glaciers. Overall, we had an amazing time. We have lots of pictures, but, they are all analog, as there isn't really much electricity to charge digital camera's. We saw one guy with a solar panel rigged to his backpack to charge his camera, but we were not quite so sophisticated.
I do have some pictures I posted of some of our time in Kathmandu. They are not a lot, as it takes quite a bit to upload photos here, due to slow internet, but it's something. If you're interested, you can see them at http://hs.facebook.com/album.php?aid=18373&l=6fb0a&id=598591945
Yes, they're on facebook, but that link should allow you to see them even if you don't have a facebook. I don't have a better photo hosting service at this point, or I would host them elsewhere. Apologies.
And now finally, for the most important, and probably best news. Our computers are not out of customs, but, one of the volunteers who just left, Mary Knox, shipped us ten Thinkpads from her old high school, and they did make it through customs! So while our computers are not here, we still have ten very useable computers to work with. We are setting them up this week, and then we will be starting teaching next Monday! We are very excited.
Anyway, thats most of the new for now. We are off today to get Indian visas.
-- Nikki
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Yay! Pictures!
Well, that looks like the Nils I know - especially the one with the pliers.
What happened to that poor keyboard?
Eeew ...
Nils seems to have a thing for sticking things up his nose. I have a similar picture of him from Turkey.
And that's why you don't eat over your keyboard. Is because then it gets like that.
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