Tradition / Food from the Neighbour / Namaste 

Kids came home form school, quickly changed their school uniform, as every day and were ready to go. (They are still living at their current space). All ligned up waiting to leave to go to the neighbour….   The neighbour invited all 11 children for dinner. It was the anniversary of the death of his…

 Superprise School Visite/ “Whats your name?”

I got picked up at 8:3o this morning to go and have a look at a new house. We found one 🙂 Second action was to check with the “bed maker”. Was I surprised that we needed to go through the entire measurement experience again? Hmmmmm    On our way to the second stop we…

Morning Briefing  / Up is the way to Go / Enjoying the Way to Go

Steel yes, very good, yes, last very long, yes, available, yes. … I got briefed to define how a bed should look like. My drawing skills are very limited and therefore decided to check online.  Easy: we also quickly agreed that we need to make use of the space below the first bed: ” We…

Wood / Metal and “The Germany Style”

After we did spend some time talking about how we are and what happened over the last 6 month, how much we appreciate that we can jointly help to improve the living conditions, we started to talk about the plan for the next 7 days. We had a lot of fun after the “The Germany…

Beautiful Moon and Little Sun / Kathmandu today 22.11.15

First action when I arrived at the orphanage was to introduce me to the new baby. He is 3 weeks old, his name is Beautiful Moon and of course he is gorgeous.  Laxmi said to me: “He is your son. Now you and I have a baby.”:) Many of her neighbors asked her to give…

Arrival / 6 month ago versus Now

When I arrived at customs I was happy to see much more people enter Nepal. 6 month ago it wasn’t even a handful. Flat screens seem to be in high demand here…. At least this is my airport observation. Hmmmmmm If you have no visa: not a Problem at all. There is a touchscreen that allows…

On my way / Time is a Challenge – as always 

I arrived at the airport with 3 pieces of luggage. All in all 35kg without hand luggage. Being a silver card holder not an issue I thought. Thinking is not always easy 😦 and it didn’t help, that I forgot my airline card. 175€ per extra luggage! No way. I managed to reduce it to…

Madonna for the Boys & Eye Candy for me

“Will you take off tomorrow?” “What?” “Ok 😦 so what time do we meet?” ” I have to work and have a call later!” ” Will we go to the Soho House?” “I need to work. But why you keep on asking?” ” Well I thought it would be nice to meet before the concert…

Birthday Gift / Berlin different / Girlie Saturday afternoon

Thanks to my girlfriend I got to discover a new side of Berlin. After month of trying we finally managed to find a day for my birthday gift – which is already a few month ago – a joined Cooking class with my dear friend.  Ajuvedic was the theme, all inspired by my trip to…