Namaste! And greetings from Chapagaun. I’ve been here a week now, and I quite like my new home. I have a great host family - Ram (the director of the health centre), his wife Rupa, his parents, and his two children, Samyak and Swoyam. There’s another volunteer, named Barbara, who’s living here as well. They have a nice, modern house, complete with electricity (and only ten hours of power cuts a week!), hot water (when there’s enough sun for the solar power to work), cable TV (with hilarious Bollywood movies and Hindi music videos), and two bathrooms. Rupa and the grandmother are quite good cooks, thankfully. I was a bit worried when I read that the Nepali diet is daal bhat (rice and lentils) twice a day, every day. Our family supplements this with a wide
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