Nepal part three

The Bell is in the house! Well, it is in the attic, but we have it. Is it not pretty?

Nepal, part deux

It is morning (somwhere it is morning right, so not tecnically untrue..) and I am sans Bell. Yesterday turned into quite the adventure. So we got to the staff entrance at 2300 as accorded on the telephone. No one. I wait 20 min. I call. "They will be there in twenty minutes okay!" It is dark, windy and cold.

Turns out, we have to give over the car to someone from the expo, since one cannot get in without accreditation. they take the car, It is going to be a minute. We wait with the man from the nepal pavillion. In conversation he let us know that the expo office have decided that no items should leave the area between the 1 and the 15 of september.

Eh? Why are we here then??

So at 0040 we get the car back. The man had loaded the bell in, so at least there is space, but at a security checkpoint they told him to go back and unload the car please. (the expo is guarded like a fortress.)

????

We will try again next week. With more clothes on. And maybe a termos with something hot in and a chair and a picknick basket..

Nepal

To night I am going to by a ceremonial bell from Nepal. Jupp. You heard right. (Or read in this case) A big 100 kg bell with carmed framework from the himalaya mountains. I will post pictures when we have it at home. The paying is turning into a problem though. Because of safety reasons, I can only take out something like 1000 € per 4 days, and the bell costs about the double. Boyfriend is going to help, so finally we will have the cash, but it is really annoying. I have been taking out money in the minibanks feeling as if the money in my bag was calling out, making signals to everyone, much like a passenger on his first cruise, standing on deck as the boat leaves the port. The relief of arriving home, unrobbed..

Anyway, don´t they have banks in Nepal? Umh. Maybe not. That is, I am sure they have in the larger cities, the ones you never see on discovery, since then you only see the final stages of the climbing of some mountain, I mean, they must have, cause there are many tourists. Anyway, this would all have been so much easier if I could just have transferred the money to an account.

Sight.

And the bell is not even mine. It is one of my father´s many "caprichos". I do not know how to say it in english. And I cannot be bothered to look up the word in a dictionary either.

Anyway, I´ll post some pictures when I have them!

Ups.

Bugger.

I just perforated the freezer.

I just destroyed the fridge. And it is saturday so no bying new anything until monday, and that means not getting anything new until later next week.

Bugger.

murphy´s law

typically it turned cooler, overcast and rain. for the first time in months. no sunbathing for me!

Itchy-Itchy

I am iching all over. Marte, here is another sympthom for your list: some sort of eksem on my torso, back and arms that iches and iches. started on saturday and has only gotten worse as the days passes. Doc thinks it is some sort of heat-sweat induced irritation. and has ordered me to keep dry, use natural fibers, use a lotion and come back if it is not better in 4-5 days.

On other fronts exams are over and best not to talk about. I have decided I am not to blather out here repetitions of former mistakes. Focus on the good things. I have two weeks of vacation before classes start and I am determined to use them in a good way and not grow into a couch potato. tomorrow I will go to the pool and let the last rays of summer sun touch my body. with the excema I look a bit funny in a bikini, like I am burned but not quite that either. I just hope it won´t get worse with sun.

I have need of Pistacho-ice cream. No can do. No pistacho ice cream to be had in this town.