May 24

We are back in Kathmandu after suchhh an awesome weekend. Sensory overloadddd here...it was so nice being in the mountains, the air quality was so much better, and not nearly as much noise. Kathmandu is just so noisy and so polluted. Coming back yesterday was such a pain too, we took a bus which should normally take 6 hours but actually took 12. There were protesters on the highway (the highway is like 10 feet wide with cars driving however,wherever they want (no lanes, no street lights). so the protesters stopped traffic completely for about 2hrs, then driving the rest of the way was just bumper to bumper (AND these cars/busses are the MOST UNenvironmentally friendly vehicles ive ever seen) so taht was pretty annoying. luckily we "splurged" and got air conditioning on our bus cause it was about 45 degrees in the mountains. But holy,, the Himalayas were the most unbelievable mountains. and driving home yesterday was rainy and thundery (which is great cause then you can actally see the mountain ranges). But the coolest mountain range we saw was teh Annapurna Mountain range...they are these hugely rigid and snow capped mountains...they were absolutely unrealll, we were blown away. I have never seen anything like it. It was a pretty great weekend...while me, bridget, and our friend Layla went paragliding, the 3 other volunteers we went with rented motorcycles (pretty ballsy considering the way people drive here - me and bridge arent into that, dont worry momma!). Anyways so they rented 2 motorcycles and both boys drove, ad then the girl was on the back of one of them, and they went up the mountain to where we were paragliding and i guess onthe way down (it was a pretty windy road), steve (a korean friend, who didnt have anyone on the back of his bike) drove head on into a military truck...he was fine, got a cut on his leg, but VERY VERY lucky. and the military men like paid for everything (it was like 800 rupees...which is sooo cheap - like 12$...to be completely treated and xrayed at the hospital). But ya, pretty scary to hear about when we got home.
oh haha and also bridget and I have somehow managed to get ourselves nepali clinger boyfriends. (not actually but they are very very eager to hang here)...they legit want to get married haha. last night wewent to this bar/restaurant that weve been going to for food and to hang and stuff and our server, his name is Bupal, wants to marry me, introducing us to his brother and following us...(not in a creepy way, he is friends with one of the boy volunteers) but Nepalis just LOVEEE white people haha he was saying he wants a traditional Nepali wedding in the country and I would wear a Sari haha. Bridget also has a jewelry man who wants to marry her and move to Canada. He sold her some earrings (this is the matching discount guy) ahah she also may ave another boyfriend from last night who let her go behind the bar and make drinks, he wants to marry her too, he said hed give her a job as a bartender if she watned it haha.
Anyways thats the update! Gotta go to work!