Jan 25th 2010

Today we woke up at half eight and walked to Pumpernickel for breakfast. I ate a lovely croissant while Nisha had a coffee. It was a nice restaurant - clean and friendly staff. We then went with Suraj, Student Guest House Head Staff, to our monastery. We took a 15 minute taxi ride there and saw many monkeys on the way. When we arrived we noticed the children were teaching themselves. They were learning the alphabet in Nepali. We met Lama Tenzing, the main monk at the monastery. Lama Tenzing then instructed us what, who and where we were going to be teaching. We then walked back to the Guest House. On the way, we stopped at local stalls to purchase some souvenirs. For lunch we ate at North Palace, we sat on the floor, which was really cool. The food wasn't that great, however the restaurant was nicely set up and the atmosphere was supposed to be amazing in the evenings. We came back to the GH, and i took a nap for two hours. When we awoke, we walked to Basantapur, which is a temple not far from Thamel. The walk seemed really long however it was well worth it. When we came back, the power was out in the GH so we ate dinner at Hotel Vaishini. The food was really nasty, i felt a little sick after eating it. After a few games of cards, we went to sleep.