I have 20 minutes left at a local Internet cafe before I hit the 15 ruppee mark. Here is a quick update: We have resettled at our new language and cultural training centre (Chetena Kendra) …
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A 20-minute update
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7 days later in Kathmandu
Yesterday marked the end of our first week in Kathmandu. I think the “honeymoon” stage is officially over and reality is starting to kick in. Nepali winter has finally grasped it’s hold throughout the valley …
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Mero naam Rex ho
Today we had our first official Nepali language class. I was actually really eager to start our lessons as it was getting a bit frustrating not knowing how to have basic conversations with the locals. …
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Currency Conversion
Technorati Tags: currency Live rates at 2008.11.16 04:14:10 UTC 1.00 CAD = 63.5951 NPR Canada Dollars Nepal Rupees 1 CAD = 63.5951 NPR 1 NPR = 0.0157245 CAD
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Day 2 in Nepal
It’s officially Day 2. It has only been 2 days and I have already endured a mammoth proportion of new experiences that I think my head is going to explode. Everything is fine of course but …
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Hitting the ground running
As soon as we arrived at Kathmandu International Airport, we had to fill out two forms before clearing immigration (a landing card and a visa application). For now, we had to get tourist visa ($40 USD) …
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Rex and Tlell, welcome to Nepal…
WE ARE TEAM NUMBER 1!!!!! ….followed by our fellow accompanying VSO volunteers: 2 are from Holland, 2 from the Philippines, 1 American, 2 British, 2 Indians, another Canadian and 1 Ugandan. The airport was nuts …
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In transit
We survived the 9 hour flight from Vancouver and had an 8 hour layover at London’s Heathrow International Airport. We debated about seeing London during that time and once we arrived we found that it …
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Last days in Canada
We just got on the ferry from Nanaimo after a spending some quality time with the in-laws in Courtenay (amazing dinners and thank you for everything!). Time went by really fast.
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Disconnecting Rex
I am not sure why, but it sort of feels good to be disconnected from my current norm of living in Canada. Maybe it is because I can see how connected I am with our …