So much of this race so far has been twists and turns and lots of ” what started as”
Short bits of life in Nepal.
Nepalese people have this idea that Americans like sweet and potatoes. I’m curious where they got this thing about potatoes, fries maybe but potatoes I could live without!
Traffic here is insane! They have every type of transportation you could think of on the road at the same time. I’ve seen one traffic light but multiple stations in the middle of intersections built up concrete with an umbrella on top and a traffic director. A man dressed in blue stands in the middle waving his hands around “directing” traffic surprisingly able to convince rows of cars and motorcycles to stop and wait their turn. In order to cross the street you run and dodge, nepalese drivers are quite good at going around people and cars even when they should be staying in their own lanes. I have yet to see any kind of accident somehow the car always stops right as you anticipate the crash.
we hasn’t had the opportunity to do much ministry yet. It appears as though we are in a persecuted area. I keep saying appears because this language barrier is something larger than I anticipated. Ive been lucky in all the other countries I’ve been in I’ve had translator upon translator. It hasn’t been too big of a problem until now when my teammates and I are the only English speakers in the city!
We had the chance to go into a school in Dhulikhel but instead of speaking to kids it turned out to be just the teachers. While we werent quite sure what to do at first
What started as us going into a school to talk to kids about Jesus and sex trafficking turned a chance to hear our host and the principal of the school share about their passions to spread the word and their desire to educate people and raise them up to make a difference. It was amazing to here since sometimes itsa little easy to think Americans are the only ones who can make a difference our maybe just the only ones who care.
We went up to the golden Buddha! 1000 steps. (supposedly only 700-800) but a lot of steps nonetheless! At the very tip top around the corner sat this huge Buddha, we had seen this from both of our homes and can you really pass up a chance to see how large he really is in person? My favorite part of the day might’ve been Tressa and I attempting to take selfies, how we also got to go to this Lion King rock and then continued to follow our ministry contact on what he guessed to be a 8 km hike. We followed it up with a ride on the Nepalese bus down the windiest road I’ve been on in a long time.
We ended up switching ministry contacts again this is our third place to stay since arriving in Nepal. It was hard having to leave the family just as we were starting to get to know them but we were called somewhere else. Currently we are in Kothe which is close to Tibet and China!?? You know you have the travel bug when you start to wonder if you’ll have enough time in your off days to travel to both! I mean 60km from Tibet?? Seeing literally the mountain that separates part of China from Nepal??
The ministry we are now with works with MAT Mother’s Against Trafficking and teaches a class early in the morning. Since this is their harvesting season it’s been a little slower in ministry work just because you cannot go visit people at their homes when they aren’t tthere. But we are still going to start visiting this week
It has become increasingly hard to know what day it is. Not having WiFi is glorious and strange at the same time. And the amazing “is this real life” moments are crazy! It’s hard to believe I’m actually on this thing called the world race and after my team and I are done in Nepal we will not be heading back home but onto a new country. I have been blessed with such an amazing team in really excited to continue to do ministry with them and I love doing life with them! We were talking the other day when we were all fighting to be in the back of the pickup truck about how really the only problem with having an adventurous group are the few times you have to let someone else sit in the back and instead experience an Indian mix of Justin Beiber with windows open and leaning out the window to experience the view (which could probably go without saying was gorgeous!)
