My new friend Chonli

Okay, I know we said to expect weekly updates but we have electricity and I just had to share today's events. My new student (who is 64, not 62) came this morning for her first lesson. Her name is Chonli (not how she spells it by the way but doing everything phonetically these days). We got her as far as "Hello", "Good Morning" and "Good-Bye". Nepalis use the same word for Hello and Good-Bye so I was trying to pantomime when you use Hello and when you use Good-Bye and the poor thing thought I was asking her to leave!!!! It's interesting teaching English when neither party knows the other's language but we're working through it. The other thing that just about broke my heart was that she arrived with a little plastic shopping bag and when I started to teach her words she took out a little notebook with Power Rangers on the cover. I'll have to get a picture because it's just about as precious as it can be.
This afternoon I was told that there were complaints from the younger folks that I wasn't spending anytime with them. I think I've opened Pandora's box with this Hokey Pokey thing. So I had about 30 kids on the playground this morning doing the Hokey Pokey (and yes, there are photos!!!!). The topper, though, was that my new best friend Chonli came back to school and joined us. It was hysterical!!!
After school Chonli insisted that we come by her house for some traditional Nepali hospitality which consisted of chicken that was still wearing half his feathers and yes, you guessed it, good ol' Nepali wine (aka grain alcohol)!!!! And this ol' bird would not let me go without finishing my whole glass!!! No wonder she got out the drum and some other instrument involving a reed-like thing and some string and started singing which, of course, led to dancing which, of course, led to ME dancing!!! Or whatever semblance of dancing you can do in a cramped room with two other women dancing with you!! And, yes, you guessed it, there are photos AND a video!!!!
That's it for now. Hope you're enjoying reading half as much as I'm enjoying my experiences here!