Sunday = Monday

Our week starts on Sunday morning at 6:30 am. There are worse things. Everything is going well in Saraswati, we are on schedule. If I wasn't busy cleaning up our tool and material sheds or assigning volunteers to tool training (it's helpful to know what can go wrong with a circular saw), I was mixing masala (mortar) - yaaay! Because two teams are laying bricks and one team is plastering, one team (today Carlo from Spain, Sylwia from Poland, Claudia from Denmark and myself) is busy mixing masala all day. But we had good music and lots of fun.

Yesterday was supposed to be a day off, but we are so social here that we also did something good yesterday. The children with the longest journey to the schools we are currently building walk five kilometers to school and back six days a week. And well, there's no pedestrian route here that goes five kilometers straight without any incline. To honor that, we wanted to run 240 kilometers together yesterday, the distance a child covers in a month. Many others don't even run that much in a year.

Siobhan, Siza, Bajra and I ran 10 kilometers yesterday (and climbed altitude equivalent to 100 floors), in total we covered 336 kilometers. It was really nice and it emphasizes how important the work here is!

The rest of the day I worked in the office, did laundry (here Saturday becomes laundry day again), we cooked together, played a Nepalese team game and spent the evening by the campfire. As always.

For three beautiful schools and over 150 children in Sindhuli:

https://give.allhandsandhearts.org/fundraiser/1808671