Christmas

Well, Merry Christmas, friendly blog readers! I hope you enjoyed it, whatever you got up to.
I got into town on chirstmas eve, and that night we went out to dinner. We had a Secret Santa, which was exciting, I got a photo album, then we went to a pub and played pool and other exciting things till the small hours of the morning. I got woken up in the morning with a phone call from my family, which was the coolest phone call ever, and I chatted to everyone and unwrapped the presents that they had put in my suitcase...it was really cool. Had bacon and eggs for breakfast, then went out and bought fruit, blankets, chocolate, lollies, books etc for our adventure to the jail. We went to central jail with the view of giving christmas gifts to the non-nepali prisioners (in a nepali jail your family are meant to look after you, so foreginers generally have it harder). When we got there we had to go through a big check - had to give up phones, cameras, most other electronic equipment, and they checked through our bags and did the feel-you-up check which is weird but fair enough. Then we went into the 'public relation' room where there was a list on the wall of all the foreginers in the jail. We weren't allowed to visit them all, we had to randomly picked one we liked the sound of and visit them. On the list there was their name, home country and what they were in for. We went in twos so Katie and I picked a Thai woman whose crime was 'drugs' (they only ever wrote one word for the crime...). She was 36, had been there for two years, had 13 to go and was in for smuggling herion (I don't think thats spelt correctly but thats the REALLY BAD drug). She had done it once before and not got caught. It was cool to give her gifts but hard to feel sorry for her...The amount of lives she could ruin by smuggling drugs is enormous, and surely she knew what she was doing, as it was her second time. We talked to another woman though, and she made me cry when I came out. She was 25, but looked younger, from the Phillipines, married. From what I could understand, her brother-in-law got her to help him out in his 'business' that turned out to be doing illegal fraud stuff. When they got found out, he ran and left her to deal with it. She has been in for 5 months, and her trial is this wednesday. If she gets out, I'm hoping to be her pen-pal (email pen-pal at least). Crazy. Yeah, so she upset me a bit.
After the jail we came back and I used the internet - Mark was online! What an awesome christmas present! Then we went out to dinner and had a pretty early night. Good times.
I'm heading back out to the villiage today, hopefully will get Cinderella underway. Coming back into town on the 29th for my Everest Flight on the 30th, and my trip to Lumbini on the 31st. I get back to town on the 2nd, go back to the villiage on the 3rd, and leave placement on the 10th. Its crazy, its going to go so fast now. I'll be home before you know it, scary stuff. But home will be another (smaller) adventure, or I'll turn it into one if its not. Love you all, keep in touch, keep commenting, have fun!