Writing fast---enjoy! We spent the first part of the day on the Tri-Chandra campus where our Nepali colleagues attend school. Approaching it, it doesn't look like much except the rebuilt clock tower (the original was destroyed in the 1934 earthquake)-when you go inside, again nothing fancy. There are rows of wooden benches and a projector at the front on the class. When we broke for tea, we were lead into a sort of storage hallway- display case after dusty display cases was filled with Himalayan rocks and mineral samples, the walls were covered in old classroom posters, Nepal topo maps, and cabinets simply labeled "rocks." I had the opportunity to learn from an amazing geologist Dr. Upreti (who will meet us in the field later in July), on subjects of sedimentary and metamorphic petrology. This man
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