Third Visit in 18 Months.........
So, after 273 Bloody jumping sheep, I was still awake……. Some would have given up a long time prior, no but not me. In the end I needed a walk outside….. Not sure that was a great idea at 3am in Sarangkot….. on a cold and very, very misty Friday morning…. That didn’t really work either, but it sure gave me a good excuse to stay in bed and get warm for a while after….. :-/
Ok, to be honest they weren’t your normal cute little lambs jumping over a small little broken farm fence… They were big white full, fluffy sheep… something to do with the desire for a big white full fluffy warm jumper at the time… and they weren’t actually jumping a fence.. You see, some time ago a friend mentioned a theory on how to clear one’s mind and get to sleep easy….
The theory was to imagine someone, even yourself, standing in front of a blackboard full of your lists to do and people to e-mail and phone calls to make and so on, and imagine them all being done and being whipped off with a big blackboard duster….. Hence clearing your mind and leaving you free to relax and sleep… Well I thought I was being smart by combining the old sheep jumping the fence and the blackboard theories and have cute, full, fluffy warm sheep, not only jumping the blackboard but have the biggest of all the cute, full, fluffy warm sheep doing the dusting off of the black board….. Sound good in theory…? NUH….
But I digress, Sarangkot and the Return to Nepal and the amazing ForgetMeNot Family is why I put finger to keyboard today… back in Nepal after about eight nine months, It feels like walking back into home after a trip away or after being at work for an extended time, the Girls and the House mums, just welcome you home with such joy and happiness, such excitement and full of questions and stories to tell. They mob you like you are a missing limb and they want to be reunited with it and never let it go again….
The first thing that strikes me is…… THEY HAVE GROWN… Oh my they have grown, and not just in size… In themselves their personalities, there openness, their willingness, and ability to connect, Its amazing…. The thing is, I am sure that every parent knows the feeling and understands the passing of time and the amazing speed in which there littlen’s grow up… but to experience it for myself is quite amazing… Another thing that I am sure parents also have the understanding of is the other thing I noticed…. It’s the simple pleasure the kids get by Just…. Being with you… On a number of occasions I was in discussion or doing something with one or two of the kids and after a while I noticed a third or fourth just holding my hand, or resting a hand on my leg or knee, or hanging on to my arm… not including themselves in the activity, just quite content to have the contact, the knowledge that you are there, the connection I suppose in some way with you…. Now as I said, all and any parent I am sure knows this feeling, to me……. It’s simply….. Golden…
So, after the shock and enjoyment of there growing up and the excitement of meeting the new faces, that’s always a joy to watch, there was the getting to know the new faces…….. and sharing themselves with the new faces… Trudy, Helen, Elkie, Sophia and of course our new face Eva. Now she showed us all up a little by speaking very very good Nepali…. The girls loved it and it didn’t take long to get them into song….. in Nepali even as well…. It’s so wonderful to hear them sing…. No surprise, Junu got up and danced….. and I would like it to go on record I myself was up getting dancing lessons….. No holding me back…J
But of course watching their little personalities come out and see them shining again while getting to know the new faces was such a wonderful wonderful time…..
So between then and today we have visited on the evenings, we have also had a little side trip to Chitwan, no more on that in the next journal, but today we went with the kids to Bhaktapur…. One of the four main, original parts of kathmandu…. Tourists yeah… but not like Thamel, street sellers yes, but not like thamel, beautiful architecture, designs and buildings that have the glimpses of almost grandeur, or at least still show the fading signs of a dilapidation grandeur…. Temples, art galleries and lots and lots of walking with of course our official tour photographers…….. The Girls… all of them budding photographers, can’t wait to see the fruits of their labor from today…. There were Ice creams, Pools, with fish feeding, temples, more temples and the odd photo or two…. And a wonderful lunch at a very nice little cafe restaurant in the square…. And I must say, to eat out with the girls was such a delight, so well behaved, so well mannered and SO HUNGRY….. J Its wonderful to see these girls eat, they certainly used the energy today…and of course the house mums had a great time out It was also terrific to see them out and about really enjoying themselves…… Till next time folks…… Please don’t forget …….. those wonderful little gorgeous, delightful, terrific young ladies of the forget me not family…..
Jason
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