So that was it. We did what we set out to do. Our work in Nepal has, as the cliche goes, given us more than we have left behind. Our presence has given rise to the contact and concern of others in Nepal towards our schools. During the last week we have been working to try and save the job of the only teacher worth his position at Shree Gadgade and we may just have done that.

We have become completely at home in Nagarkot and Kathmandu. I believe I may know more people there than in Whitley Bay at the moment. The relationships we made have been sustaining and important. We are returning to Nepal as soon as circumstances allow to do more of the same. I might even work out how to do some sketchpad work unaccompanied, tho somehow I doubt it.

As soon as I can I shall be adding photos to past blog entries and some more of our leaving party at the cottage. I certainly have culture shock right now. It is so wierd to be again in a country without poverty and hunger and the least said about the purple tinsel 'tree' in my neighbours window the better.

Aakash, one of the Nagarkot Cottage family is to be married this week and we would love to have been able to go too. (He did invite us. This is not just some idea I have had) And it is impossible to avoid checking the time difference and wondering if the fire is lit yet and how they are looking after it without Viv.

There is only one way to end this section and that is to say that we have both made a commitment to the project that means we shall return to Nepal to see it through.
Photos to follow,
love Jill x