Morning Pages

To the following people, I am grateful to you for your contributions in making my Nepal experience truly complete in the last two weeks:

1. The child who ran full-speed into my bare shin with a prickly pineapple


2. The person who precisely aimed at the back of my leg while spitting


3. The child who decided to relieve himself on Ellie's backpack at the bus station


4. To the chef who overlooked the cockroach while cooking the restaurant's batch of lasagna


5. To the person who rehung my freshly washed laundry by removing the clothespins and then tying my clothing into knots on the clothesline.
6. To the beggar who latched onto my leg through the taxi's front window and responded to my "Paisaa chainaa!" by repeatedly beating his head against the glass, nearly breaking his nose.
7. To the friendly, chatty taxi driver who then made a rapid transformation into a raging schizophrenic when he realized his miscalculation in the distance to our village. He then threw my backpack into the dirt when we finally arrived in Chapagaon, in case I wasn't already convinced of his anger.