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• 2008-Jun-13 - Rich is on the blog...
Hey everyone,
This is going to be a quick catch up on everything we have done. Sorry if it looks familiar to some emails you have gotten... haha. internet time is short.
unfortunately the camera i bought specifically for this trip has died, but not until i got plenty of pics of the several one horned indian rhinos that we saw from the back of an elephant in chitwan national park. luckily, my friends wes, shweta, and bryan have plenty of extra pics to go around. i'm also super excited that meeting up with quinnie and jess (my little brother and his girlfriend) and treking up to everest base camp is a go! so we will meet up with them on the 18th and fly up to Lukla on the 19th and then trek up and down over the next 10 days. then to dehli and the taj mahal and then home, but here is a little about what we have done so far.
the first week we were sight seeing and learning the nepali language in kathmandu as i talked about earlier in my emails. phrases such as mero naam Richard ho and Tapaiko naam ke ho and Mero desko naam USA ho have been helpful to chat up the cute little kids. then for the last week we have been around chitwan national park. getting out of the city and into the country side was very refreshing.... in kathmandu the sounds of horns blarring, dogs barking, and locals trying to sucker tourists out of all their money are constantly droning on.... 2 days we adventured into the park by canoe, hiking, and elephant rides. we also got a chance to bath with the elephants as they cleaned off after a hard days work and i perfected the technique of grabbing the elephants ears and standing on the trunk while it pushes me onto its head and then back. we saw several endangered rhinos, which were awesome. they are so blocky with their armor they actually look fake. also several of our friends played soccer so we got in about 3 games some with nepalis and other a little more serious and intense just 3v3 with the volunteers. sagi, our israeli friend reminded me of quinn with very little skill, but the heart of a true champion. and wes and i definitely got a little competitive at one point...
then the next 2 days we did health camps with doctor raj, which was awsome. both days we drove into rural villages that you can tell the people there never leave and set up for a day of checking out people and giving them meds from the arsenal of 400 dollars worth of meds we bought which gets you a lot in nepal. raj taught and showed us a lot and the people were so grateful. most people just had common ear infections, rashs, or the like, but some were a little more severe, like the guy that walked into the clinic and said he felt hot and when we took his temp it was 104! luckily after a bath in the river and laying down in the shade his fever came down because that is dangerously high. all in all we saw 350 patients between the two days and shweta and i even extracted some teeth that were completely rotted away and causing extreme pain. and yes amy raj had some shots that we gave that numbed their mouth right up.
next we moved to the info nepal happy house in chitwan which is one of the many orphanages our organization runs. the kids were adorable and so eager to learn all the time. there were about 20 of them and our job was to help landscape around the house. we planted 100 trees, hoed and built a garden and really cleaned the place up. info nepal was started by asim about 8 years ago and they specialize in orphans and teaching english and this happy home is near the site of the house he grew up in. he has been traveling with us and is a great, guy. wes and i stayed nearby with host families while bryan and shweta stayed with the kids at the house.
my host family was awesome. they were farmers with land and 3 cows/buffaloes. the mom spoke no english but said i looked like her son and was very nice and just smiled all the time. she called her daughter on the 2nd day and told her to come over (she was resently married and live about 30 minutes away by bike) because your younger brother is here... the daughter very confused and eventually got out of her mom that a volunteer was staying with them and it was me who looked like her brother and she had a big laughed about that. the food was great. dhal baat everyday for every meal including breakfast, which is essential just rice and a curry sauce with lentils, sometimes with a little meat and always with plenty of vegetables. they had a rice maker which i thought was awesome and then a single gas burner. to give you an idea of how poor they were, one night when we were eating and a cousin was there, a boy of about 10 the mom pulled out the pickled vegetables to give me a try. after eating a full scope myself the 10 yr old cousin ate 1 and then went for a 2nd vegetable, not scoop but vegetable, and the mom scolded him because it is such a precious commodity and he can't have that much. the dad was very nice too and spoke some english. he was very excited when i left and gave me his number and said to call him when i get home. also, ames, his brother who lived next door, when i told him about us, said that i need to bring you with me next time and then a light bulb flashed in his head and he goes "honeymoon, honeymoon!" so we have that planned out at least. haha.
anyways, then 2 days ago we drove up to pokara which is the adventure capital of nepal. everywhere are stores with north face stuff and places to book treking, paragliding, river rafting, or pretty much anything crazy you want to do like bungy jumping. yesterday we hiked up to the world peace pagoda, a buddist temple for world peace, but don't quite made it because leeches were everywhere... we will definitely get around a different way in the next couple of days. i still have some sores on my ankles from where they sucked the life out of me... good times. this morning we went to some sweet bat caves completely without lights and just explored for about 2 hours with flashlights... really cool. then this afternoon we checked out 20 kids at an orphanage with a local doctor which was really nice. the kids were great and some of them needed our help, like this boy with a 2 year ear infection that had perforated his ear drum and so we did the weber and rhinne tests and learned all about why you do them. and then got him the drug to help cure the infection. unfortunately to repair his hearing he needs surgury, which we don't know if he will get... but obviously a really neat experience and the kids loved us. they played with the tuning forks, stethoscopes, and reflex hammers and were so amazed at being able to hear a heartbeat and find reflexes.
plan for tonight... drink a beer and watch Italy in the euro 2008 tournament. sweet.
just finished "into thin air" and i'm ready to go up into it.... such a great book, i highly recommend it to anyone and dad i also finished the gunslinger last week. kinda cool in a nightmarish way. king definitely has a way of scaring the hell out of you. also, reading it in a foreign 3rd world country might have just made me a little more scared all the time, but i loved it. next on the list is kite runner. i love you all tons and send me back some emails with how everyones summers are going.
peace
rich
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