Saturday, and today is the free day of the week, which is our Sunday. There are some things here with traditions, local customs, and so on that are just very different from Sweden. All the shops are said to be closed today, but I will take a short walk down town after lunch to see if it really is like that. If I find a internet café, I’ll take a quick stop there and try to upload some things from this week here to the blog.

  There are more things to get used to. Never accept anything with your left hand that is been given to you. The left hand is the “dirty hand”, and the hand you use to clean your ass with, as many people don’t use toilet paper. Very simple like that. So accept things with both hands is ok, or just the right hand.

  When you are going to give things to other people do it with the right hand, and you can take your left hand and touch your right arm elbow as a courtesy gesture. Don’t really understand that, but I do it as much as I can.

  Traffic is supposed to be going on the left side of the street. I guess this is something Nepal have adapted from India, and India got it from the time as a British colony back in history. But, if it is more free space on the right side of the road, no problem to drive there then. And if you have a motorcycle or scooter, people really wear helmets, but only the driver. When someone is riding with you that person never has a helmet. I’ve seen parents driving around with the children in front of them on a motorcycle and while the adults have helmets, the children hasn’t.

  Throw garbage everywhere, or at least that is what people do here everywhere, and it is just so sad. Perhaps somebody will make a pile of garbage in the morning and burn it. That’s what people do here. I try to collect my garbage, but what will happen to it when I throw it away, I don’t think I want to know.

  Everything has two prices. The Nepali price, and the tourist price. No doubt about that. I’ll try to see if I can get some Nepali prices while downtown later. It’s worth a try.

  People in Sweden are perhaps addicted to watch TV in the evenings, or surf the internet, but I wonder what Swedish people do if they wouldn’t have any power at all. When power is cut here, and it’s getting dark and you’ve eaten your supper at 20.00 hrs in the evening, then you go to bed, or I think so, because in some strange way people are up at 6.00 hrs in the morning even if it is Saturday (free day.. sleep long.. me and my Swedish habits). In a way I regret that I didn’t filled up my external hard drive with movies, but on the other hand, with a weak battery in the computer, I would still not be able to watch a movie with no power.

  When it rains.. it RAINS. Not the soft Swedish type of summer rain. No, now we’re talking like about rain like the monsoon rain. And when it rains, do not be afraid of the cockroaches that run around in your house. See them as pets instead. At least you’re not alone in the house.