Milk is brought to a small shop where it's tested for fat content. It's then hand transferred via milk cans and a bucket into a small milk tanker. A far cry from the fleet of Scania's Fonterra have roaming our country.
When we finally reached the village it was back to work. It was to be a shirt day as we had to say our farewells straight after lunch.
On house one I think it was the most fun we have had since we had been there. We started off by heading straight to the brick kiln to get some more bricks, this time we had the full team and also the children from the house. We had great fun doing what is really a pretty dull task, you could see the other workers who were again just standing around and watching thinking that they perhaps would like to be in on the fun.
When we returned to the house and the bricks were dumped we again formed our chain gang to move as much as we could in the shirt time we had left. We even had some help from Sunil, the son of the owners of the house. He was a great help and I think had a lot of fun with us.
Then the time came to pack up and say goodbye. We left all our gloves and any other equipment we would no longer need with the family and this was appreciated. Then we made the 15 min walk back for lunch.
Shortly after we had our lunch a rain storm hit and there was a mad dash as we all (Kiwis and Nepalis) rushed to get a tarpaulin over our heads. This proved to be a great team building experience in its own right and as we huddled under the tarp waiting for the rain to stop we talked and made jokes and had fun with the kids from the village. We were also visited by some of the teachers from the school who had some letters written in reply to the ones given to them on Tuesday from Marlborough Girls College.
When the rain did finally stop we went to visit the other houses to see the progress that had been made on them. We are hoping to be back in the village before we leave to hopefully see some finished houses.
Finally we handed over a few more goats and then it was time to say good bye. We were each marked with some red chalk which was for good luck and give some more flower leis, then it was back on the bus for the trip home.
However the day wasn't finished yet. As we were winding back up the Hill we came across a traffic jam. It didn't look like it was going to move for a while, so rather than wait we all piled
off the bus and walked the final three km up the hill. We soon found the source of the traffics jam. A collision between. Landcruiser and a bus. No one was seriously hurt but it came as no surprise to see this, given the way the Nepali people drive. If you have ever seen worlds deadliest roads, it's exactly like that.
That night we had a farewell dinner with the team and our helpers, Bijay, Santos, Prakesh and Laxman. We wre also joined by Ashok, who without his help this would have been a lot more difficult. So now it is off to Kathmandu and see the rest of this beautiful country.
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