Seeing how popular this particular style of blog post was last time I wrote one for you guys, here's part two. Hopefully I'll have one more to add before heading back to the US. There are certainly enough hilarious moments to merit it.
When you
have to pay the professional-ghost-scarer who blasted a horn outside your
window at 3am. #OnlyinNepal
When leaving
a bottle of soda on your windowsill is more effective than refrigeration.
#OnlyinNepal
When you’re not
at all surprised to learn your host country has more mobile phones than
toilets. #OnlyinNepal
When you
have more Hindi and Nepali songs stuck in your head than English. #OnlyinNepal
When simply
walking down the sidewalk is enough to hail a taxi. #OnlyinNepal
When you
dream of sledding down Mt. Everest on a nanglo
(a kind of flat, round, woven rice sorting platter thing). #OnlyinNepal
When you
pick coffee shops based on which one has a generator. #OnlyinNepal
When 18 hours
of power cuts in a day ensure that you’ll never complain about losing power
during a thunderstorm again. #OnlyinNepal
When shoving
through people for a seat on the bus—or cutting a line—is not frowned upon.
#OnlyinNepal
When failing
to acquire a seat on the bus results in perpetually bruised knees and thighs.
#OnlyinNepal
When seat-belts and motorbike helmets are a fading dream. #OnlyinNepal
When it
takes both hands and feet to count days between showers. #OnlyinNepal
When everyone has two speeds of speech: fast and
lightspeed. #OnlyinNepal
When
visiting someone’s house is an expectation rather than an invitation. #OnlyinNepal
When you can’t
function without, yet often loathe, rice and sugary tea. #OnlyinNepal
When you
have a conversation like this:
Alanna: You have 300 karod gods? How many is a karod?
Prasun: Ten million.
Alanna: So you have 3 billion gods? Wow. I
only have one, and his name’s God, which is easy to remember. Bet you can’t
name all yours.
Prasun: Yes I can! There’s Shiva, and
Vishnu, and—
Alanna: I’m going to class.
#OnlyinNepal
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