May 20

Work is going well over here. Bridget has been at the hospital the last couple days, still a bit disappointed, but she did get to watch a few surgeries (an apendectomy, gall bladder removal, tendon repair, and more things but we dont know what the procedures were called). She says that it is kinda hard to watch because it doesnt seem like the doctors are doing really precise or gentle work, and their instruments are not that sanitary, nor are the rooms that they are doing the operations. SHe says that the doctors wear like flip flops around and like floral shirts haha. Definitely not a formal, north american hospital.
The monastery has been awesome the last couple of days...i made a bunch of different topics to teach each day, like the other day we covered body parts and clothing, and then we did colours, and the 5 senses. The monks are awesomeeee! Today I think we are going to cover the months and the days of the week...most of them know numbers and the alphabet, its a bit tricky though because there are a couple veryyy beginner monks and it is hard to move at a speed that doesnt bore the other ones, and isnt too fast for the slower learners. I went to the orphanage yesterday with one of the other volunteers...the kids are awesome, we mostly just worked on their homework. I dont know if i already wrote this but the Nepali people call eachother brother and sister (in their accent it sort of sounds like brothaaaa and sistaaaa). At the orphanage yesterday i was helping this girl, Copila (she is 7 but is smaller than a 4 year old), with her computer science homework and she was asking me to check her work, and i guess in her exercise they were to label the different computer parts...so as im reading down her list and checking things off i stop one of her answers because she has written "hard dicks" and im like sort of boggled and trying to figure out what part of the computer she is even referring to, so she was sorta hassling me being like "sisttaaaa what is the matta sistaa, it is hard dicks" haha, its hard for them to put the 's' before the 'k' so even when i clarify it still sounds like that haha. Pretty funny. Its pretty interesting/sad though because they go to school 6 days a week, and they do dictation (like spelling tests) and they are taught words the way that their teacher believes them to be spelled, so the teacher sometimes teaches them the wrong spelling and if they spell it properly on the exam then they are marked wrong. Just part of the confused system here though I guess. Nothing is perfect.
Tomorrow (friday) we are going to Pokhara with 3 other of teh volunteers. On our way there we are doing a rock climbing thing for 4 hrs (thats including like all the training/equipment/lunch/lounging haha there is no way we would be able to climb for 4 hrs straight). Should be a nice weekend though, it is on a lake in the middle of the mountains and hotels for the night are like 8-10$. and the bus for 5 hrs is like 5$. We are going to come back on sunday, im not sure what our computer situation will be like there so i donno when i will be updating, may not be until sunday.
Bridge and I found this massive disgusting beetle-looking/cockroach-looking bug in our room 2 nights ago... sooo gross, we were not having it! we tried to kill it but it was soo fast and ran underneath bridgets bed. There are 4 beds in our room (2 of them unused until the end of the month when more volunteers show up) so we just slept in the beds that were farthest from the roach!
anyways gotta get ready to go to the monastery.
xoxo