So yesterday I thought I could walk to Boudha in time to take pictures of the sunset. Let me tell you how much of a mistake that was. I consequently never want to leave Dawa’s until we leave Nepal. So I walked for a good hour and a half, got to ring road on the NE side of Kathmandu, realized it was too far to walk so the only nice Nepali told me to get on the boudha bus - so I got on teh bus that I swear the guy said jioepwujieoapfjdsa;fdsafdsa....boudha. so I asked him, is this the bus to boudha? and was like yeah. So I rode it past the airport mistakenly putting faith in that guy. We ended up in patan, so I was like fine, fuck it, I’ll just go home so I rode it back to approximately where I got on - the guy tried to charge me 30 rs - apparently I looked like a gullible white person. So I gave him 6 and got a taxi that tried to charge 400 rs from closer than the airport to kimdol. I gave him 200 and refused to go any higher. Fuckers all of them.

I can’t even imagine being back in LAX or in Lexington with no one staring at me like a celebrity, everyone understanding exactly what I say.

Today I waited for sofia near the temple where we agreed to meet but she didn’t show. I waited for an hour before I went to get lunch by myself. that sucks. I even cleaned my room for her. So writing this ISP is pretty daunting. It’s funny how I’m kind of working on it in fits and starts - whatever strikes my fancy at the time, bibliography, aknowledgements etc. I need to put good chunks into it staring tomorrow so it comes out coherent - I think I have some good stuff, I just need to present it well - speaking of presenting, I’m mortified of this stupid oral presentation. I’ve spoken to more people and for longer than this, it’s just I don’t know very well what to say, like what general stuff to go over, maybe because I haven’t put everything together yet.