I was really looking forward to leaving Kathmandu yesterday. Nepal is a beautiful country, but what I have seen of Kathmandu, I don't particularly care for it. It is very dirty and there are pushy people trying to sell you things and get you to ride in their taxis everywhere. I definitely never want to live in a large city, and I most certainly don't want to live in a city in a developing nation.
Again, I was looking forward to leaving Kathmandu yesterday. We arrived at the airport at about 1 PM for our 3:35 flight. Everything was going fairly smoothly (they terminal smelled like BO and urine) until we were in the bus that takes you from the terminal to the plane. We waited on there for several minutes and then they took us into a room right inside the door of the airport. After waiting a while longer there, they told us that there were "technical problems" and they would decide whether the flight will go or not within 30 minutes. Of course, 30 minutes turned into almost two hours. Then they told us that the flight was cancelled, and eventually we were moved back into the terminal with the strong stench of BO and urine and given lousy airline food. After another 45 minutes we found out that our flight would be going at 2:55 PM today, and the airline would take us to a hotel for the night and cover the costs. So about 8 hours after we arrived at the airport we were loaded into a taxi and taken to a "real deluxe" hotel. I think the only thing deluxe about it is that we actually have cable TV with.
There are four things that are really lousy about this. First, we have no clean clothes here. We left some in Bangladesh and brought only what we needed. Second, we were supposed to get a home cooked meal by one of Phillip's American co-workers. Third, we were supposed to go to Mymensingh today to see what programs MCC has going on there. Dad and I were really looking forward to this. And finally, I am sick and tired of Kathmandu, and we have to spend another day here. Oh well, I guess it's the joy of traveling in developing countries. Yep...Just another day in paradise!
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