And so finally it is time to move on, and after 3 months I leave Nepal. It's been a fulfilling and rewarding experience with one or two lows, and a lot more quite litteral highs. I have met and worked with a huge number of consistently helpful and friendly people, and every child has shown me remarkable warmth. As I say a sad goodbye again in Godawari, I only hope my English classes, my mosaic course, art lessons and sports matches, weren't affected too much by my outrageous lack of training.
Nepal is a great and diverse country with interesting, and hopefully fruitful times ahead. There is much to be done - For convenience I tell everyone i'm from Birmingham, only to frequently hear the response "ah yes, Birmingham City". Not once have I heard the words "ah yes, Aston Villa". They clearly have a long way to go. Impressions of the people here are of an overwhelming and humble helpfulness. The examples are countless, from offering me the food of a sick child, to the elderly Nepali gent who stopped to carry an exhausted Japanese trekker up the Everest trail, quicker than the rest of his group could walk it. I hope my next stop is as welcoming and friendly, and I hope I will be back.
I head for Tibet now, although quite why i'm not already on a beach in
Australia, is a very good question indeed.
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