what a crazy day!

like i've said before, Nepal is really

an adventure- it's always so surprising!

so woke up today to a text telling me that

this other guy from Queens- Steve,

(to those who know, it was steve barr)

who wanted to go to church so there

was a mad moment of arranging how to meet up

thru facebook and texting

(both UK numbers- i'm going to be broke!)

and when it finally happened,

it was really nice seeing a familiar face.

after church Jeannette brought Catherine

and I to my first venture outside of Kathmandu

into this Newari village called Bungamati

which is basically a farming village and

it was SOOO nice getting out of that crazy

honking dusty noisy place that is the city

and into the quiet real Nepal.

and because I didn't expect this,

i thought we'd be looking at museums or

temples or something like that i was

still wearing my church clothes-

a proper skirt and nice shoes and everything

and they decided to go tramping across the rice paddy field!

so off we went, both of them appropriately dressed

and walking without fear and me tagging behind,

jumping from stone to stone above the

mud in fear that i would fall into the

paddy plants- you know how incredibly clumsy i am!

there were huge fields of paddy plants

so we walked about and i saw a few

Newari farmer women sitting down to have their

lunch so i walked over to see whether i could get

a photograph of them, and to my surprise

they whipped out an extra plate and heaped it

with typical Newari food and made us

all sit down and have lunch together.

it was seriously amazing,

eating with these people smack bang

in the middle of the paddy fields looking

at the acres and acres of greenery around.

and you know what they drink?!!

this alcoholic beverage that is almost 100% alcohol.

they kept asking us to try some,

but it smelled so strong even from a few metres away

i had to refuse.

i have no idea how they work in the

fields properly with that much alco

in their system!

so yeah, then we walked all the way back in the rain.

took lots of photos but

typical samantha tan, brought the flipping

wrong cable all the way to nepal!!

arrgh!

):

you just have to rely on words for now.