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Boudhanath Stupa (where I'm internetting now)
And no, it's not possible to rotate the picture.
The wiew from our roof (where I usuallt sit and do my laundry)
The Hyatt Hotel where we spent last saturday in the sun
My roomies and me at dinner saturday night, and some wiews over Kathmandu.
Sunny Sunday
Just a quick update for you all:
The weekend turned out terrific after all! Early on saturday morning me and the girls strolled off to the Hyatt Hotel - for a day at their gym, pool and spa (with jacuzzi and sauna etc). It was so lovely (I'm gonna try to get up some more pictures - promise!). It was a perfect hot and sunny day to spend by the pool, getting tanned and happy. And after 7 hours of gymming and saunaing (is that even a word?) we had a nice nepali dinner and a beer.
Today we had a long walk to the Kapan monastery, a great lunch in Thamel including some shopping for books. Life here is so easy and non-problematic, I'm gonna be all zen when I eventually get back from here.
Pictures coming up.
Bad Day
Tonight we're making dinner with the girls (no more dhal bhaat!!!) and watching a movie - gonna take it easy this weekend for once. But everything always works out, somehow, and I'm sure it will this time as well.
Boudhanath Stupa
My hostfather served me so much Tuborg Gold at lunch though, that I'm pretty lightheaded at the moment.... I kind of missed it - eftermiddagsfylla!
No I'm sitting at the Boudhanath Stupa internetting - crazy beautiful I say! If you have plans of travelling: go to Nepal!!!
ps. does anyone have any great ideas on fundraising?!?
Poon Hill
So, where should I start? Maybe at the beginning?
It all started monday morning with a 9 hour busjourney from Kathmandu to Pokhara, which can be best described as a mix of a massagechair from hell and a rollercoaster - in a sauna. I still managed to fall asleep (cause I always do that in moving vehicles) and banged my head several times in the window.
If this wasn't a good start, it was getting even better! Cause the thing is that none of us "trekkers" knew that we were supposed to climb 3210meters in 2 days (except for the last 450meters that we climbed at 4.30 in the morning, day 3, to be on the top in time for the sunrise). Now I feel like I've been run over by a train, but my God how beautiful it was!!! Totally worth it!
On the way home yesterday it was raining, and a car crashed into our bus on the small roads in the mountains - luckily the bus didn't slide of the road, and everyone was doing fine (well, not the bus that got a big hole in the side). It resulted in many hours waiting for the police and a trip by the policestation...
I'll say it again: the Himalayas are incredibly beautiful!!!
Trekking-Queen no.1
And today we had lunch at this orphanage, to celebrate Dashain, and we all got blessings (tikas).
Me and Nat.
Some pics.
I'm paying a fortune to get some pictures uploaded here
(well, a couple of euros only, but here it's a fortune). 
I'm going trekking to Poon Hill all next week,
so I'll give you an update on saturday.
Citylife
I'm back in Thamel, with fast internet, bars, beer, softer beds (as in more than just a blanket to sleep on) and A LOT of people! After a week of beeing the oddball in the microbus, it was nice to see some white people and go out dancing. We met the owner of the bar and got some (many) free drinks, met some nice people and had a good time. After that we went to an other bar that was closed (but a friend new the owner) and we had to hide on the roof for a long time when the police searched the area (cause the barowner would have gone to jail if they'd found all of us in there after closing).
It's also very nice not getting lost all of the time - since streets don't have any names maps are useless - and only one of about 20 streets are acctually on the map. It's crazy. Plus I got faceraped by some Monks today - they forced red paint in my forehead and lots of flowers in my hair, and wanted me to pay for that shit. Thank God for wetwipes.
I'll try to get some pictures loaded tomorrow - so drop by. Same place, different time.
Settled down
I just got to drop of my thing yesterday at the house before I got a carride to the hospital. That is why my hostmothers son came to pick me up after work (cause otherwise I would not have found it). But I was about to faint when I saw that he picked me up on a motorbike!!! So I sat on the bak of a motorbike through Kathmandus afternoontraffic (thinking I would die every second) without a helmet off course! And the amount of dust in my eyes and mouth!
Today it was time to try the microbus (= a van with place for about 7 people, but filled up with at least 20 nepaleese people + myself). It was deffinetly an experience to try to hear what every driver of the microbusses shouted for a destination, try to jump on to it while it still moved, stand hunchbacked in the crowd of the bus (van), and try to get an idea of if it acctually was the right bus at all.
I don't know if I'm gonna need any white water rafting after all this, cause it feels extreme enough i think.
But the truth is, I love it! And I really hope I will be able to post this on my blog before the daily 2 hour powercut.
Day 2
So much for my "cleaning my liver and getting a bit more sober"-project: I found my self in an irish pub yesterday evening (my first evening in Nepal) drinking Everest-beer... So far, so good. Or not?
I also got told today that I will get 25 years of jailtime if I kill a cow (note to self: do not kill a cow!), my question is simply why that person felt he needed to tell me that? Do I fit the profile of a cow-killer?!
Kathmandu
I'm in Kathmandu now and it is so fantastic!!! I'm a bit tired (because I spent my flight from Helsinki to Delhi next to a man from India who did not stop talking), but I'm feeling great.
Now I'm going out to take a look at the city, and most importantly, try not to get run over by a car or a motorcykle!!! I think that is my biggest fear.
And btw, suzukis are VERY popular in Nepal!
