May 30

Bridge has started working at this HIV/Aids orphanage-daycare-school type thing, we were going to go there today but it is a holy day so we couldnt. She said it was really sad, the kids there either suffer from HIV/Aids, or someone in their family does. They have been expelled from school because of it too, and htey are basically looked down upon within the community. The woman who runs it also told Bridge that they are in need of volunteers and the last one they had there was too afraid to play with the kids...very sad. Bridge likes it because she is needed there much more than the hospital which she is also doing. The HIV orphanage also asked her to write a report on the status of their school/learning facilities, so that was pretty cool. The orphanage that we both work at has been good too, the people are so nice. we are thinking of planning a little day trip with the kids (there are only 13 there), where we take them to this zoo which is like 100 rupees a person...a little over a dollar. The kids have never been, and never really have the opportunity to go so we were thinking of doing something like that for one of our last days here.
Were going to do a portion of the Annapurna circuit next weekend with a few of our canadian friends who are doing the whole thing. We will bus to Pokhara on either wed/thurs and then leave the day after and do the first couple days and then bus home from one of the villages. So that should be exciting/interesting...haha we arent really the typical trekkies that you see here! everyone is so hippy-ish/trekky-ish haha.
This weekend we just stuck around in Kat, worked and puttered around. We had a pretty sweet day today...relaxed, and then went to Thamel and walked around and then 4 of us went and found a spa where we got full body massages, soooo great! and it only cost us about 10$ for an hour.