Year in Kathmandu
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items: Day….I’ve lost count. April 26, 2013.
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items: Friday 1st of March 2013 – Day 4 Kathmandu

Day….I’ve lost count. April 26, 2013.
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date: 2013-04-26T18:58:28Z
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description: It’s been a challenging few weeks. I’ve been delaying writing my blog because I’ve been in a bit a ‘snit’ for sometime and didn’t want to come across as negative. But this is part of life and part of the adjustment process when moving abroad or just moving. We’ve been in Kathmandu for 2 months […]
encoded: <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-219" class="size-medium wp-image-219" alt="Will's first day at school. Blair sending his best wishes to Will. " src="http://judehenry.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Judes-April-2013-122-300x225.jpg" width="300" height="225" srcset="http://judehenry.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Judes-April-2013-122-300x225.jpg 300w, http://judehenry.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Judes-April-2013-122-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http://judehenry.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Judes-April-2013-122.jpg 1280w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /> Will’s first day at school. Blair sending his best wishes to Will. It’s been a challenging few weeks. I’ve been delaying writing my blog because I’ve been in a bit a ‘snit’ for sometime and didn’t want to come across as negative. But this is part of life and part of the adjustment process when moving abroad or just moving. We’ve been in Kathmandu for 2 months and I feel as though I am now better prepared to live in the Botswana bush. We live in the capital city of Nepal however we are adjusting to 10 hours a day of load shedding (no power or back up power only),that stopped working this past weekend, veeeerrryy ssslllooow internet, slower then Botswana…my patience is getting a Â good workout. Clothes are only hand washed and hung to dry. Haven’t figured out laundry during the rain yet. No vehicle, walking and public transit everywhere. On Mondays I have a 6pm meeting I attend I leave our home at 4:30pm to get there in time. I’m learning how to cook differently, no oven and only 2 burners, shop differently, we only have a small fridge so can’t store stuff. However, I haven’t thrown out much spoiled food, we’ve been eating everything in the fridge. Sleep differently (Blair and I are adjust to sleeping on the smallest and hardest bed we have ever slept in) Ok, ok, ok you say ” Is this not the reason you are travelling? to experience different things, learn new ways etc.…

3rd of April 2013 – Day 37 Kathmandu
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date: 2013-04-05T01:14:58Z
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description: EISH! It’s been too long since my last post. Too many pictures for 1 post and the task is feeling daunting. So I’ve decided that I don’t need to put all the pictures I’ve taken since my last post in this one. I’ll split it up and post more often….we’ll see how that […]
encoded: <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-150" class="size-medium wp-image-150" alt="How cool are these trucks! I just love them. " src="http://judehenry.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/March-2013-Kathmandu-48-300x300.jpg" width="300" height="300" srcset="http://judehenry.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/March-2013-Kathmandu-48-300x300.jpg 300w, http://judehenry.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/March-2013-Kathmandu-48-150x150.jpg 150w, http://judehenry.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/March-2013-Kathmandu-48-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http://judehenry.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/March-2013-Kathmandu-48.jpg 1280w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /> How cool are these trucks! I just love them. EISH! It’s been too long since my last post. Too many pictures for 1 post and the task is feeling daunting. So I’ve decided that I don’t need to put all the pictures I’ve taken since my last post in this one. I’ll split it up and post more often….we’ll see how that works. Anywhooo…since we last met. We have moved Â into our apartment and working on adjusting to things such as lack of hot water, load shedding (scheduled power cuts, we are at 10hours/day of no power), sharing the smallest and hardest bed Blair and I have ever had to share. I think the bed is what we consider a single and a half….definitely not a double. A new way of cooking. We only have a 2 burner gas stove top, no oven and 1/2 a fridge. Â I can purchase most fruit and veg, eggs and milk at local vendors, a couple minutes walk up a steep hill. Other shopping requires more effort, a longer walk. The other day Will and I walked 40 minutes to buy toilet paper. As Blair likes to say, “lots of opportunity for personal growth…” As of yesterday Willis is officially admitted at a school. Pathshala (www.pathshala.edu.np) an English Medium local school. He begins grade 8 April 25th, 2013. Â In the meantime Willis and I are diligently working through the grade 7 math book. Math seems to b…

3rd of March 2013 – Day 6 Kathmandu
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date: 2013-03-05T01:36:15Z
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description: Good morning! It is 5:22am in Kathmandu. I’ve been up since 3:30am….still working to get over jet lag. “They” say it takes a day for every hour time difference. That would be a 10hr and 45min time difference from Toronto to Kathmandu. 10 to 11 days…so I’m ok. Blair and Willis are doing much better […]
encoded: <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-97" alt="City Tour " src="http://judehenry.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/City-Tour-March-2-80-300x300.jpg" width="300" height="300" srcset="http://judehenry.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/City-Tour-March-2-80-300x300.jpg 300w, http://judehenry.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/City-Tour-March-2-80-150x150.jpg 150w, http://judehenry.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/City-Tour-March-2-80-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http://judehenry.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/City-Tour-March-2-80.jpg 1280w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /> Good morning! It is 5:22am in Kathmandu. I’ve been up since 3:30am….still working to get over jet lag. “They” say it takes a day for every hour time difference. That would be a 10hr and 45min time difference from Toronto to Kathmandu. 10 to 11 days…so I’m ok. Blair and Willis are doing much better then I am. I get tired….all I can think about is bed and sleep. I’ve always been a sleeper. I love to nap. To me there is nothing better then an afternoon nap on sunny afternoon after a very active morning, Â hence I’m awake at 3:30am on Sunday morning. This first week has been all about orientation. Orientation on our sponsoring Canadian organization UNITERRA (CECI) and it’s programs in Nepal. Orientation on Nepal: history, culture, politics, geography etc.. Orientation to Kathmandu, Blair’s partner organization in Kathmandu (whom he’ll be volunteering for), house hunting, a welcome lunch with other UNITERRA volunteers and yesterday a city tour. It’s been an amazing week! My first impressions of Kathmandu. Crazy, chaotic, quite, alive, colourful, accepting…I cannot believe how quiet this city is at night. Kathmandu is a city of over a million people living very close together, high density living! The occasional dog barking but that’s it. Maybe it’s just where we are living in the city… But it blows my mind each night. During the day the city is filled with life and all sort…

Friday 1st of March 2013 – Day 4 Kathmandu
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date: 2013-03-01T02:21:19Z
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description: Happy March 1st. A Pinch and a Punch for the first day of the month! Ok so I’ve been meaning to get a post going for the past four years as we were in Maun Botswana…..yeah didn’t happen. Here we are now in Kathmandu Nepal Day 4 of our 1 year adventure. We all have […]
encoded: <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-37" class="size-medium wp-image-37" alt="View from Sky 100 Hong Kong via Kathmandu" src="http://judehenry.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Viem-From-100th-Floor-300x225.jpg" width="300" height="225" srcset="http://judehenry.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Viem-From-100th-Floor-300x225.jpg 300w, http://judehenry.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Viem-From-100th-Floor-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http://judehenry.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Viem-From-100th-Floor.jpg 1280w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /> View from Sky 100 Hong Kong via Kathmandu Happy March 1st. A Pinch and a Punch for the first day of the month! Ok so I’ve been meaning to get a post going for the past four years as we were in Maun Botswana…..yeah didn’t happen. Here we are now in Kathmandu Nepal Day 4 of our 1 year adventure. We all have our camera’s, I got a nice little one for christmas to carry with me at all times because there were just too many missed picture opps in Maun. My plan is a photo journal for the year, with the goal of taking a picture every day.I have never been one to carry a camera so I hope this will help create a new habbit. The following pics depict our journey from London ON to Kathmandu Nepal. <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="150" height="150" src="http://judehenry.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/View-from-our-frst-nights-in-Kathmandu-2-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="" srcset="http://judehenry.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/View-from-our-frst-nights-in-Kathmandu-2-150x150.jpg 150w, http://judehenry.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/View-from-our-frst-nights-in-Kathmandu-2-300x300.jpg 300w, http://judehenry.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/View-from-our-frst-nights-in-Kathmandu-2-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http://judehenry.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/View-from-our-frst-nights-in-Kathmandu-2.jpg 1280w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" /> <img loading="laz…