14 December 2008
Hari came back yesterday evening and it was good to have a
proper discussion again! As a result, we talked until after 10 o’clock
so it was really hard to wake up at 5.30 this morning!
I told him about all my “adventures” here, and he told me about
his as he had had some as well. I indeed requested him to bring me some sanitary
towels! It’s already a difficult task for a Western guy so you can imagine
what it is for a Nepalese guy while no woman here uses this kind of thing! ;-)
As he was trekking with a Western group, he actually asked a British guy for
advice! And then he showed what he had bought to another client, an American
girl, who told him it was good as she was using that! However, it was not good
for me as it was tampons and he had bought five boxes, which are useful for
at least 6 months!!! Anyway, it was kind of him, and to imagine him asking advice
to his clients (one of them being a man!) is so funny that I just laughed a
lot!
And then, while walking from the bus stop to Jhyanglang, his plastic bag with bananas and oranges broke .... so they fell 100m below! He was about to leave them there but then he considered the amount of money and decided to collect them .... quite a hard task as it had happened in an area of a landslide. But he succeeded and so last night, we had banana mash for dessert! ;-)
Hari told me as well that he had employed for his trek the guy who had cooked potatoes for us (with the basic shelter for house) as a porter. He talked to his clients to let them know about his poor situation ... and as a result, this guy received $200 for tip, on top of his $50 salary. A nice sum for 5 days! ?
Hari went to Jibjibe early this morning to complain to the owner of the clothes shop about my “tsiolo” which was completely wrongly tailored! He is obviously an influent man as he managed to get a new one made for me, at almost no cost ? .
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