Oh lovely life,
sometimes you are tiring.
This past week I’ve been very sick.
So sick that Kev had to take me to the hospital.
Turns out I have a virus.
It’s been a week now, and I finally regaining my strength and feeling normal again.
Thanks to so many of you who were praying for me!
Needless to say, Kev and I have took it easy this week.
The one redeeming virtue of being sick, however, was watching my sweet husband take care of me.
He rushed me around town to the hospital,
rode to the market one morning before I woke up to buy me fresh carrots to juice,
and daily rubbed my head and back to relieve the pain.
I think there’s a reason God sends us out in two’s.
This week I was reflecting on the work it takes just to “live” here in Nepal.
Living in Kathmandu is exciting and colorful, but it is HARD!
Every time Kevin and I go out into town, we literally need the rest of the day just to recuperate.
I know that sounds dramatic, but it’s true.
Last week we took a microvan into the city to go to the bead and fabric market.
Now a microvan (in case you were wondering) is a ghetto van where they shove you in like sardines and everybody’s all up in your biznass.
Personal space bubbles here are about as laughable as health food at McDonalds.
Aign’t no such thang, baby.
Some day I end up sitting on stranger’s laps…
in any other circumstance lap sitting on complete strangers might be a bit bizarre slash inappropriate!,
but not here.
It’s every day life.
When we finally made it the half hour into the city, we started walking. And walking. And walking.
But simply walking involves massive crowds coming at you, where the elbows start flyin’, and people are hocking lugies (sp? and anyways, I hate that word!), and buses and cars are honking at the rate they are tapping the breaks. It’s chaos.
We finally ducked into the bead and fabric market, and I was in heaven.
Kevin and I have some fun ideas/dreams we are working on, so we were having so a great time buying swatches of different fabrics. The designs and colors here are to.die.for!
But figuring out prices, and converting it into dollars, and haggling and converting yards to meters made my head spin!
When we finally got back, we both were exhausted. That’s the day I got sick.
Evidently a week was what I needed to recuperate from this outing, hehe!!
But all that to say, no matter how much harder it is to live here,
we love it and thank God every day for this opportunity.
I hope you have a lovely weekend friends!
ps- stay tuned for Monday's post because I have a fun give-a-way for you of some nepali treasures:)
Love Katie
{finding a shoe place and trying a few on...this picture was my "mirror". Didn't buy the ones on me...but did buy the ones behind them to the left. cracking up at this guys "pose" for my pic! haha}
{can you tell what colors they like in Nepal? haha}
