Category Archives: Feelings

Bistaarai, bistaarai

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Firstly, thank you to everyone for the comments – they bring me many smiles (especially since I am usually sleepily checking my email at 7am…we wake up super duper early here).  A special hello to all my friends at UBC and family around Canada – miss you all very very much.  Also a special congratulations to J&J on their wedding….so wish I could have been there to celebrate with you.

Bistarai, bistaarai is the phrase I referred to in my last post which means “slowly, slowly” and it couldn’t feel more like a mantra.  Everything is moving slowly for me – time passes slowly, life passes slowly, culture shock is passing slowly.

Unsettled…

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I have always loved the feelings of home – home is comfort, happiness, warmth, safety, and familiarity.  But now, home is where exactly?  It was here, held in between windows and walls and filled with smells and sounds and feelings.  But now it is empty, full of echos.  I dearly hope that amidst the clamour and vibrancy of Kathmandu I will discover a new home, that is equally filled with smells, sounds and feelings – different, new and extraordinary yes, but still home.  For now, comfort gathers around this, my home”page”.