Jan 27th 2010

This morning we woke up and as usual, took a taxi to our monastery. It was a lot harder to teach the kids today, i felt i was running out of things to teach. Class one was a lot easier then class two. During the first class, i noticed a monk who wasn't writing anything in his book. After asking him several times to write it down, i came realize he didn't know how to write. He was fairly new to the program, so i sat with him in the back of the room and started with the alphabet. I asked him to write the letter A five times and B five times, so on and so forth. I spent 40 minutes with him while Nisha led the rest of the class. I then led class two as it was unfair that she had to teach alone and class two are a lot more difficult to work with. I taught them basic and intermediate conversations, starting with Question and Answers, Ex: Good Morning,How are you doing today?, I am fine, Thank you, How about you?
Soon thereafter, i introduced time and being able to read it and express it. Ironically time ran out so i decided to continue this next class. After class, we met up with Manmeet and she took us to her monastery. It was much larger than ours. Here we ate the traditional Nepalese food: Daal Bhat and Rice. It tasted so good, Nisha didn't like it though. We were also served 3 cups of Indian Marsala Tea. Manmeet then showed us the painting room, she loves art and they asked her to help them paint. The work was amazing. Soon after, we just sat in the courtyard and watched the monks play games with each other.One of the older monks was picking on a young monk. He took his 2 rupee coin and wouldn't give it back. As we left, i folded a ten rupee note and gave it secretly to the little monk. He had a smile on his face and quickly hit the note in his pocket.
When we got back to the guest house, we watched the Hangover on the TV downstairs. We also ate lots of crisps and Haribo. In the evening, we ate dinner at Or2K. Me, Nisha and Manmeet. This was our first time at this restaurant and the atmosphere there is out of this world. The food was absolutely amazing and the staff are so friendly. There was a weird man sitting opposite us, he was just eating from a block of cheese, smoking his weed/cigarettes, burning incense from the cheese, and lastly swaying back and forth to the music. After dinner, we went back to the GH and went to sleep.