What have I been up to over the last few days ? Well, besides listening to Missy's new album (which I love), its been a bit of everything.
On Friday we had the annual AGM at work, so I got to meet most of the board and directors and sat through a 2 hour meeting all in Nepali .. interesting to say the least, but slowly the langauge is starting to sound 'normal' and if I'm lucky I might start picking up a few words soon. Amazingly I managed to get the gist of a lot of it just by the tone and body language. Quite a few of the board also run their own organisations and I am getting invitations to come visit and help. They are so desperate for professionals (?), especially with IT and english skills to help out, I feel quite overwhelmed and not sure how to cope. As much as I would love to help out, how much can one person do ??
The meeting was followed by an enourmous lunch, which was beautiful, I have no idea what I'm eating sometimes, but I'm getting over my paranoia now, so no doubt I will be bitten again soon.
I just vegged around Saturday morning and decided to head off to Thamel later in the day. In the interests of my new 'get fitter' phase, I decided to see how far I could walk and would you believe I totally suprised myself and made it all the way. I would guestimate that its about 8 or 9 k's !! After that little effort, of course I needed a drink ... wandered around for a bit and ran into a guy from Melbourne. It was soooooo nice to talk with someone and actually understand both sides of the conversation. I found myself at Sams Bar, a relaxing chair, some music, a vodka and popcorn ... most places here serve a fresh bowl of popcorn with your drinks, not a bad idea at all. I started talking to a girl from England and the group slowly expanded over the evening, in the end we had poms, aussies, kiwi's, costa ricans, canadians, nepali's and no doubt a couple of others .. so many travel tales and adventures, it really does make it so much harder to know what I'm going to do next, they all sound so good.
Woke up Sunday feeling just a tad under the weather, I've really got to stop this drinking on an empty stomach thing, its just that I get so involved in looking around and talking I forget to eat ... such a wonderful sight .. I felt like crap, the forehead and nose are peeling, lots of lovely coldsores from all the sunburn and a bad hair day to boot. Got myself moving in the end, as I had to pick up the software that I had ordered, LOL, no walking today .. I slacked out and got a taxi. Picked up the software, had a wander around New Road and headed home for a thrilling day of installing Virtual PC and Windoze. After the mac, I forgot how damn long it takes to set it all up. Got VPC and W2K on OK, but it took hours ( and hours ) to get W2K up to speed. Service packs and security updates, .NET framework .. got the worst of it done and will have to finish the rest today at work.