I managed to get in touch with Lillian today - one of my contacts who have some direct involvement with the WDT and its school. She is from Canada, but has now quite a wide range of ties with Nepal. Very coincidentally, she knows the people at my hotel well (the Nepal Encounter); so we met here and decided to head for an all-important football match. This was the final of the Prime Minister's cup (essentially a tournament of the lesser Asian teams). Nepal had beaten Pakistan in the quarters and Thailand in the semis, and this was the big one. Ayway it turned out to be a great experience - and a pretty good match. It was still 0:0 after extra time; so we had the drama of a penalty shoot-out. And the right team won.
The whole thing was certainly much better than the Aberdeen v Kilmarnock match I saw just a couple of weeks ago! Send out the scouts.
What made it even better is that we didn't pay to get in (we just joined a kind of crush where we encountered a friendly polis), and ended up squatting right at the edge of the pitch. Here's a picture of a Nepal corner to give you an idea what the place was like. The flags in the background are of the competing nations. NB the picture was posted a day after the comments. Most computers here still date back a few decades - and the power is very dodgy. There is a published schedule of outages (or maybe it should be put as when power is actually available) - and at least this timetable seems to be pretty relaiable.
I have made contact with Chuda (of the WDT), but he is stranded in Chitwan province. So our meeting won't be for a day or two at least. There seems to be a major "banda" on the go in the Tarai districts - including Chitwan. This is a big protest strike against a variety of government failures.
The whole thing was certainly much better than the Aberdeen v Kilmarnock match I saw just a couple of weeks ago! Send out the scouts.
What made it even better is that we didn't pay to get in (we just joined a kind of crush where we encountered a friendly polis), and ended up squatting right at the edge of the pitch. Here's a picture of a Nepal corner to give you an idea what the place was like. The flags in the background are of the competing nations. NB the picture was posted a day after the comments. Most computers here still date back a few decades - and the power is very dodgy. There is a published schedule of outages (or maybe it should be put as when power is actually available) - and at least this timetable seems to be pretty relaiable.
I have made contact with Chuda (of the WDT), but he is stranded in Chitwan province. So our meeting won't be for a day or two at least. There seems to be a major "banda" on the go in the Tarai districts - including Chitwan. This is a big protest strike against a variety of government failures.
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