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During my second visit to Nepal, I spent three months getting to know the people and the country very well. Among the people were some of the shop owners along the Lakeside strip that is popular with the tourists in Pokhara. A, sort of, dedicated area that the people of Nepal have come accustomed to tourists staying in hotels and hostels around, and shops that are set up that appeal to those tourists. From the Tibetan women that I bought my jewelry from on the street and the ones that have their shops, to the seamstress that will measure me and make me custom clothing to my specifications (because my healthy American body doesn’t fit into the clothes made for uber skinny hipster girls) and the man that sold me 60 yak wool ear flap caps at 200 npr each for the children in Arnakot. I have even come to know a few of the restaurant owners like Sweet Memories where the entire family keeps a Diet Coke available for me for when I come and order the special Eggplant Pakoda. During my tim...

Jeff I got to know Jeff and the Community Development Network (CDN) during the summer of 2016 after an introduction was made by a mutual friend. Jeff has been working in Nepal since 2014 and has accomplished a lot through his research around Education and implementing computer labs surrounding Kathmandu. Ramita After getting to work with Jeff Lee and CDN I was off an running on setting up our donation link on the site here, and encouraging donations through my Twitter, Pinterest and Facebook posts. I was introduced to Ramita, a woman from Sankhu a town just outside of Kathmandu where Jeff and his cohort Tiffany had worked with extensively since 2004. Ramita was very warm and welcoming in her emails, and excited that I would be returning to Nepal. She invited me to visit with her family and her home in Sankhu. I was ecstatic about the opportunity to visit another place in Nepal and to see the work Jeff and the CDN Team had been doing all these years first hand. Paru I graciously acce...

After spending two years in Nepal, I have picked up enough to be able to converse with those that don’t speak any English, and some words and phrases that help as I am walking around Lakeside and the women ask me if I would like some bananas or oranges, or when I want to specify that I want black tea and not the standard milk tea the locals drink. When I was first learning the language I struggled to find sites that kept is simple with just enough to get by in the beginning, so I’ve put together my own list for those that are visiting Pokhara for the first time and just want to know enough to get around. In English In Nepali Hello – the Nepali form of greeting Namaste The more respectful version of Namaste Namaskar All purpose term meaning yes (mostly used when someone yells your name and this is how you answer, rather than “what?”) Hajur Thank you – though not often used as the Nepali don’t say “please” and “thank you” D...