Momo night in Kitchener

Dear Friends,

ready for a little cooking class? The gang met at Jude's place for a delicious meal of momo. That's dumplings the Nepali way. Filling: all sorts of veggies (carrots, cabbage, onion, ... and tofu...), finely chopped and fried. Dough: white flour and water. That's it. Easy. 

Well, some find it easy

                                                                                                 

             Some find it not so easy

  

Some are really good at supervising

we all are surely good at eating them! No matter if they look good or not so good... 

We steamed them in the imported original steamer that Russ brought back from Kathmandu for Jude. A variety of dipping sauces et voila! 

Mads - very hungry all of a sudden

Photo Album! Yeah. Finally!

Namaste everybody,

I have grey hair now and my nails are bitten down to the bones.

But I think I have figured it out now. I have posted a few photo albums to picasa and it looks as if it works.

The exciting thing is, it even links to this blog! Whoohoo. See for yourself.

Nepal trekking

Nepal faces

Nepal from Start to Finish though not really in order :D

Nepal - THE RACE

Mads

Amazing Race

Well folks, this is the race that just keeps on giving! We continue to get emails from friends and school classes looking to make donations! How wonderful. Just to let you know, thanks to everyone's generosity we raised an amazing $15,000.00 in just 3 short months. Here are the plans for these funds and for the future of "Run for the Hills".

While we were in Kathmandu Tshering Lama and Tashi Lama (shown in the picture) registered the Yholmo Conservation and Development Committee as an official NGO. We opened a bank account and then were able to use the money to fund part of the race and to begin to buy shoes.

The plan is that Tshering will now begin to organize his first visit into the hills to work with the government school in the village of Thakani His mission is to teach them about sport, training and fitness and how to incorporate this into their education program. Thanks to the generosity of the students of St. John's-Kilmarnock School in Breslau, Ontario who visited Thakani in 2001, 2007 and again this past March, the school has lots of sports equipment. The problem is that they just don't know how to use the equipment.

Tshering's idea is to begin his project here and to work with the staff and students at the Dhauleshowary Primary School. We look forward to updates and promise to keep you posted. In the meantime if you'd still like to make a donation please contact us at info@magicsuitcase.ca.

Dhany abad...thank you!