Muda's in Belangi

Today we went to another one of the 7 camps called Belangi and had lunch with a Rufugee Volunteer for the organization World Food Programme, which lets us use their office in Damak for our work. It was quite the experience to actually be served food by a person in the camps and their family was remarkably friendly and caring. They hope to be resettled to the US by early 2009. Sitting in the small bamboo hut's that in their family house 6 people basically living on top of one another, we ate the traditional Nepali Dal Bhaat while beating small hand fans to beat the heat and humidity. These huts have no electricity and very little hawwa (wind) get's through the narrow slits that are used as windows. We were so honored to eat here and be in the company of so many questions coming from her family about life in the US; we finished lunch and went to another WFP volunteer's hut to sit with her family for tea and learn more about her father's craft of building bamboo seats, which he has done since his days in Bhutan, now going on 18 years ago and beyond! He really liked speaking to us, although he could only speak Nepali, so Sushant helped to translate and we attempted to read off questions we have learned from our little Nepali phrase book. We ended up buy two of the bamboo seats which are traditionally known as Muda's, so you will have to see them first hand in our place when we return to SF :)......Back to working on the website which is a few days away now from going live!!