events b4 placement

After our first day of orientation we went sightseeing to Swayambhunath, the monkey temple in Kathmandu. There is a stupa with Buddha eyes painted on top of the hill, which is around a 365 stair climb. There are monkeys roaming free, I could feed them biscuits straight from my hands.
After the temple, we had a traditional Nepalese dinner, where we followed customed by removing shoes, having good luck thikkas and even eating with our hands. The food was really good and we were entertained by dancing throughout the dinner as well.


The last night the crew was all in Kathmandu before going to our placements we had a fabulous night watching the world cup, even though Brazil lost. Eduardo is from Brazil and I found myself glued to the match hoping they could score again, but even though they didn't we carried on the night with singing karaoke in the parking lot and dancing in the rain. Some of the folks from Abu Dhabi hardly get rain so it was a celebratory dance.

Stephanie, Eduardo and Kas sad after Brazil's loss...

Amid dancing in the rain ;)