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Kathmandu, Thursday, May 20, my one day off! I have spent most of the morning and into the afternoon in a MAC store! I had to buy a new electric cord as mine burned up due to one of the many daily power surges we experience daily! :{ So thrilled to be with folks who know about MACs! I end up by buying a round light portable speaker and a remote control AND a new IPOD!! Rice and potatoes and liquid diet for a while! But I feel so happy about these purchases, as my kids songs, speeches and short dvds cannot be heard in my classrooms and now I feel newly empowered and excited about my next weeks classes! On top of this I have just received a couple of very complimentary e-mails from Arjun, 'my boss', Manager/Coordinator of Child Haven! It is good to have a day like this! There are times, you can imagine, that one has to work through one frustration after another, so when life presents gifts like this to me I feel wonderful! Now I am off to have a swim and a shower and HANG OUT IN THE LOVELY GARDEN at the fancy hotel where Ghis and I went last week.

Meantime, my first scheduled week of classes (Sunday and Tuesday) went very well. Six back to back 45 minutes english classes (grades 2-7). The Montesssori teachers wait for me to come to their classes too! How heart warming it is to enter each room and the children stand up and sing a welcoming song to you!! The energies and enthusiasm of these folks is exciting, to say the least. We took in another little boy the other day. I helped him cycle his first little bicycle in the yard. So poignant! I continue to teach staff and didis when I can. wont go on in details about my teaching and classes at this time as the day is fast diminishing and I want to jut BE!

Talking of BE ing, yesterday I met and had an iteresting chat with a young monk from Scotland! Today I met an artist guy from Holland and we had a heart warming chat over tea. He arrived today and will stay in Nepal for at least 3 months. He has just come from Sri Lanka, I think, learning and practicing the Middle Way (Buddhism) and loved his days spent on top of mountains just being quiet... He wants to live this modest life style and is going to start up a circle at home in Holland and to finance his work he may be able to sell his pen and ink pictures, which are really lovely. He gave me a tip about week long retreats in a monastry nearby..... June there is a session.... yahoo!!

Meantime, I wonder about the folks in the Canmore Yoga Lounge, my writing buds and of course Arran, Teresa and friends in Vancouver and Rosemary et al in Toronto... the folks in Ireland, England, Australia, Spain, Africa, Scotland ..... we are all on this wonderful wonderful journey of discovery.

hugs, Dyane (Mom)