On the road

2010-01-12T15:35:00.000-08:00

hello everyone! just wanted to make an entry before bed..
12 of my thoughts tonight.

1st- water is one of the tastiest things in the world.
2nd- Our lives should have soundtracks. a personal soundtrack for everyone.
3rd- Everyone should watch La belle vert Amelie and Avatar
4th- i speak to animals
5th- my sister is the coolest person on earth.
6th- i wish i could fly
7th- borage gives you courage
8th- a must have for everyone: pasta a la nonna
9th- watch saturn on a telescope now!
10th- if you flew at light speed, it would take you 2000 years to get to the milky way!
11th- im super proud of the fact that i was born in Egipt
and
12th- if everyone played an instrument at the same time, we would be the worlds biggest orchestra

we make faces*:

2009-07-16T13:29:00.000-07:00

some days are harder then others.

there is no real reason for this, and there is nothing much you can do about it.

i dont know why it is the way it is, it just is:)

it makes you strong and closer to your close ones. it makes you love even more and take a deeper breath.. it is good, even though it is not easy.

then..

some days, oh you smile as soon as you open your eyes and think of someone you love , your dog waggles his tail because he adores you(and you notice) you get a hug for no reason, you enjoy your tea more then the days before, you hear a song that reminds you of someone, you talk to your sister and the day is as beautiful on the other side of the world as it is here.. the sea is sooo cold that it makes you laugh, some days everyone is happy, some days everyone is there for you, some days its girls day, when you finish a batch of brownies and its ok, when you laugh so hard you cant breathe and actual tears are shed, when your friends hug you without laying a finger on you, when you love your mother so much that its overwhelming, when you do yoga with perfect strangers on the beach, and when you can make someone smile so wide, the whole world sees it! oh..

those days make all the rest worth it.

namaste*

good nights, jessy

pictures:

orlando and sien

me and sien

sara

adri

did someone say friends?

2009-06-22T01:37:00.001-07:00

Do you know those people that make you smile just by thinking of them? it might be because they are sweet, funny, very huggable, silly, kind, or just because you dont know why you love them so much, except the fact that you do!

i have this a lot! i also have lots of "anonymous friends". i believe that anyone who can make you smile is a friend. anyone who makes a positive difference in your day, can be your friend.

..the lady that gives you a lift because you look like her daughter, the man that says hello with a big smile, every morning without knowing your name. the girl that you shared good laughs with, on the plane, the guy that when you asked for a direction, said: ill take you! :) the old lady that gives you a bag of plums because time might go by faster, the taxi driver that offers to take you for free because you're lost, the lady that gets of the bus, looks at you and says you are beautiful, the good friend of a friend that you have never even seen, and lets not forget the friend that you talk to, but is not really there.. you know, the imaginary friends everyone keeps in their pocket! all these people are my friends, and probably yours too.. a friend of a friend, is my friend to!

welcome friends of the universe!! :) nice to meet you!

to all of my good dear fantastical friends:

samy, mom, dad, oma, opa, nonna, nonno, pipa, sara, pardal, zeca, tina, carlos, lho, vi, pedro, pedro, rod, leo, lourenço, sien, orlando, idalina, shani, stephie, paul, nicholas, mafalda, joana, lourenço, mariana, fatima, sammy, raul, anita, claudi, colin, martina, adriano, chico, sara, sarmento, aninhas, jonas, the nepali girl that thinks im funny, vera, ines, ninhas, catarina,the 3 placidos, salima, mohan, angelina, rita, liliana, sara, marina, dr deepika, esther, jim, robbie, joel, charley, robb, michael, brett, the guy that says, "we believe in karma",lurdes, diana, rosa, carlos, lina and co., anny, enrico, daniela, saskia, ando, antony, sally, viola, valentina, vicky, max, marco, annie, fernanda, renata, brenda, brin, mini, ash, mackey, ines, ana rita, the old lady in the local nepali bus that talked and talked, crista, anica, pipa, luis, bernardo, joana, ana, catarina, rivca, william, seed, helio, luz, belarmina, everyone in the circle of magoito, because i never see them, but i care deeply for them, the england bunch, ferrucio, uccha, mammy bashanti, brian, the man from the sky, prazeres, the laundry man in thamel, ohh i could go on for ever:) and i know i havent mentioned a lot.. you tell me!

have a wonderful day* jessy

2009-06-22T01:37:00.000-07:00

2009-05-31T04:44:00.000-07:00

irony..

buddah bar peer pressure! charley and me having a laugh!, he just spat on robb! :)

namasteee! a good day to all of you out there! this world, this life, its a song. you can sing out of tune, and you can hit the notes just right, what matters is that you smile while you do it. learn it always a bit better, so that at the end, you can sing it all over again!

2 musketeers, world guy, world girl, and a pirate that atracts only nepali guys!

awesome night!

playing footsey with the tibetan border

2009-05-25T22:28:00.000-07:00

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namaste! bonjour, hello, buon guiorno, hallo, ola, and all of that! :)
yesterday i arrived from my little trip to Tibet! haha
Joel and i decided to get on a bus and go to the tibetan border! its a 6 hour journey, but we did acouple of stops, went to dulikhel, and tatopani.
in dulikhel we were in a beautiful spot on a top of a hill. and woke up at 5 am to see the mountains, which allthough were in the mist, were beautiful!
we left to tatopani, supposed to go to the hot springs.. ok, now whats the image you get when you read hot springs? think abit... ok, now ill tell you their idea of it..
go down some steps, and then you have a concrete little house, and its open on one side, divided in two, gents and ladies, and then, shower heads. with people having full on, soap showers! ok!!!!
so we decided to pass that, and make a move on to the next bus roof top! uh, these roads are freakshley scary! we were like, were on our way to tibet!!
we arrived in codari, right next to tibet! we were probably the only foreigners there.. people were not very pleased with our presence. the looked at us in a very unwelcome way and just stared, and Nepalis do love their staring!
by then, the only thing separating us from tibetan land, was a huge river!! ..and a massive gate..and a bridge... and a monster pile of shit, and garbage.. and some guys ready to kick our ass if we try anything suspicious!! haha
they don't allow anyone in Tibet.. there are a bunch of restrictions and it involves a ton of money!! so Joel and i woke up, and walked up to the big gate. people were going in and out with bags and merchandise on their backs.. everything was wet, including us, monsoon has started, so its raining non stop by this time. everything is muddy and very dirty. so basically we just went through these gates without a blink from anyone, and crossed all of these massive trucks and merchandise vans, and right there, behind all of that chaos, where it would occur to no one.. there was the bridge. the bridge linking Nepal to Tibet. the bridge, that without politics and cultural discrimination and immigration issues in the way, we could have just walked through.. step on a land that is equal to all other lands..
instead, i took my camera out to take a picture of the river, beautiful enormous river, and wasn't aloud.
i wasn't aloud to take a picture of natures gift.. its no ones property. yet i couldn't do it. it makes you think..
we walked towards the middle of the bridge.. were on each side of the bridge, stand to soldiers under a multy colourful umbrella. there is a line that divides the two countries.. its a thick red line with a thin white line on each side of it, and it runs across the length of the bridge. although we were pretty intimidated by the cold Chinese looks, we asked if a picture of the line was permitted. more obvious than not, they gestured with a no. we stood on our side of the line.. just staring at this virtual brick wall.. and as we talked, just discretely put our foot over, and round again..! :) ive physically been in Tibet! we did it, walked away, passed the tons of trucks, the little river smelling of fish, went by the mean looking nepalis, and got on a bus to Kathmandu! :)
we smiled to ourselves, that was so worth it!
when i arrived, i heard about the bomb in patan, near Kathmandu. thankfully i had no idea, and am ok! everyone ive been around with, is ok as well!

news!
i have been asked by Katrina corps in new Orleans to come help them!
im still waiting to know further details though..

samy is going to San Fransisco in a couple of weeks with her friend Robby, and then is probably going solo somewhere in the south! im so excited for you samy! :)

i send big tight hugs to my lovely and sweet grand meres! they are amongst the strongest women i know. and i admire them. i hope they know that friendship is one of the most important things in this world. i miss you both. see you soon*

my family of friends has gotten a bee hive! wohoo! bees on the rise
power to the worlds greatest folks, whom i care very deeply for: orlando, leo, rod, lourenco, shani, joana, sammy, raul, sarmento,adry, anita, sara, jonas, aninhas and all of you that i might have not mentioned!(sien too!)
i miss you guys a lot!

smiles to plompi compota!! big big smiles to my friend that i love dearly. always by my side! kiki.. miss toi

sarita e pardalini, who are true sunshines! its a brick friendship!

a big shout out to my old friends, lho, ivi, pedro and pedro moranguini, you come and go, you mean alot to me and after what we've been through together, i expect many more years of sillyness with your sweet company*

mamush and papush, i coudlnt ask to have any two better people in my life.. i love you, respect you, admire you, miss you, and am forever thankful to you. thank you for being who you are, where you are, when you are.

a warm namaste to the whole world. i love you all. jessy

joel and robb, the funniest people alive! having a laugh with bryan, the man from the sky!
that is the pile of trash i mentioned before.. right behind those trucks, is tibet..wonderful impression
local lady in thamel, picking up the trash in vain.. unlikely to make much of a difference..
this is what i mean..they actually have no dustbins..
joel at the morning rise.. in dulikhel. beautiful isnt it?
kids near the view.. playing football and meaning it as well! money was involved! :) they were so excited
young boy and young catty, in construction.. hard work.. thats what they do all day.. carry bricks, over their heads..!
field working on the way to tatopani

this is quite sweet and LOvely:) local ice lolly stand!

just outside of thamel.. soldeirs do their routine stand outside the big walls.
i suppose ive seen more lively kids.. it depends alot on the areas i go to..

now.. a cup of tea for ferrucio..
the lovely man that i remember. the man who had lengthy conversations with plants and bugs.

see you soon*

2009-05-20T02:51:00.000-07:00

so where did i drop you off...? ah trekking!
ive been traveling alone again, but out here its hard to actually be alone! you always have some traveler or local to chat with, and probably spend a good amount of time discovering different cultures!
there are a lot of Israeli travelers, a lot of English as well, but ive met people from all over the world!
i spent some time in a Tibetan refugee camp, i asked them if i needed to pay if i wanted to stay a couple of days and help out. the monk said if i wanted to leave a donation i could but no money was required.. its really silent up there and its quite lonesome. their English is a bit limited, so its hard to communicate sometimes..
i was meant to go to Ghorka yesterday, i booked my bus ticket, and was ready to go to bed, when i go by the hot sandwich place, and spot Joel, from England, which i met through Robb. i stopped to chat , and he said he had a really nice day, because him and some people had rented motorbikes! (out here you don't need a license and they dont ask for any documentation) and he said that they were going to do it again the next day, and that i should join them! (after i went to chitwan on a bike this made me very tempted!!) so, on the spare of the moment, i canceled my bus ticket, and the next day, rented a scooter, along with Joel, Ash, from Georgia, Michelle, and Adam from England, and Charley from England and japan! we all had breakfast and spent the day just riding around mountains and lakes!. we stopped at this beautiful place, picked up little row boats, and went for a swim in this amazing lake! my bike was crap and it was falling apart half the time! :P we entered a bumpy road, which is basically stones, we soon realized it would ruin the bikes, so we turned around, and of course i got a flat tire, which later i discovered was caused by a huge nail! ash and Charley went to look for a mechanic, while the rest of us just sat in the shade! :)
a couple of minutes sitting on the grass and some girls were peaking at us, and giggling and waving at Joel. i asked if they wanted a picture, to which they were so excited, they called me over to their side, and invited me into their home..! they were so smiley and happy*
the guys came back with a mechanic, and as he was sorting things out, a surreal ice cream truck showed up out of the durt road, in the middle of nowhere! so, we, obviously stopped them, and got a tub of vanilla and a tub of chocolate ice cream!! oh cold and yummy
while my bike was being fixed i was left with a load of locals, and my camera! what to do? they looove pictures! im sorry ma!! haha i just LOVED riding a scooter!! it felt so free and it was so much fun riding within cows!!
today we were supposed to go to Kathmandu but we missed the bus, so we go tomorrow on a 6 hour bus ride! ahhhhhh
a big hug to all! hope all my letters and postcards are getting there.. i know it might take a while..! lots of love, and many smiles to all! jessirela*

hope everything is bright and shiney at your end of the world!

i love this shot, you can just tell hes a trouble maker!

uh!! icecream truck! :)

Ash with a happy smile and tubs of ice cream!
Joel, Michelle and Adam, sitting in a nice shade! thats my bike at the way back scenery!

one of the sisters that invited me into her home!
she was even more beautiful in person!
precious kids.. funny and alive! little chekky munchkins!

yehee! jessy on her master scooter! say dallbhat!

im serious...! they acctualy have products to make skin lighter, to like, bleach their skin! products that actually sell alot!!! isnt it crazy?

oh look at him.. he makes my hurt weak. [tibetan refugee camp.]
prayer book [tibetan refugee camp]

lake in pokhara. after sunset

waiting for time to go by :)

their humble home.. oh the laughs!!

Adam diving in the most amazing lake!!

hello there Joel! british head wrap!

i have one of these without the kid on the side, but its so discrete and i just love that smile!

im amazed at how beautiful these kids are !
Namaste everyone! :)

humanity is the only religion and love the only priest.. -kimche,

2009-05-16T23:08:00.000-07:00

hey guys! im so happy when i read your comments! you make me smile..
oh..! where do i start? ive just had the most amazing days! i went trekking on the poon hill circuit up in the annapurna mountain.
as the day starts, i know im going to have to walk about 7 hours up hill..so that's a booster!
it began in a small village with my backpack and a full bottle of water, oh and my camera!
its quite funny trying to talk to the local villagers.. the intent is there, but you end up just exchanging a mix of signs and facial expressions!

its such an amazing culture, im always so mesmerized. i was about to leave the village when i see a little girl.. i felt like i should stop and so i did with a namaste.. she tugged at her ears, and her grandma called me.. i took a look and she had a gnarly infection behind her ears.. i took out my little kit, cleaned her hands, her face, her ears, and put some arnica where i could.. i ended up putting a plaster as well. but there is really so much could do.. i fell like, i was lucky i stopped.. they have no real communication with people that can help, there is a great language barrier, and they have no medical care up there.. which they are in dire need of. every year people loose their homes, crops and family members to the monsoons, due to the unstable ground and big landslides. people are greatly injured and they will go on months without medical care. because it is an area with hard access, to keep their vegetables, they pick them in mass, and them smash the juices out, and dry up the bunch.

about to cross the river, there was a group of people sitting, it was a cremation ceremony.. the body was ready, they just needed to collect the last bits of wood. women where aloud to assist, but in many villages, women are considered having weak hearts because they cry, and for this reason they are banned from the ceremony.
as the journey went on, we went by, a school, saw wild orchids, saw beautiful fountains, saw loads of goats, carrier donkeys, loads of wild marijuana plants and a wedding ceremony! they have a 24 hour long party and the next day the wedding takes place.
after 3000 steps and torturous climbing, we get to the days end..Uleri a nice little guest house on the hills side. the room, was a little cardboard box! haha unstable floor, amazing view! the next day, another 6 hours to go, ended up meeting Bret and Michael. which were realy cool,even though their from california :) Bret is a motivational speaker (im not sure what you call it) and Michael is 22 and lived in china for 6 months, ending up learning how to speak and write fluent Chinese! its an amazing accomplishment! it was so nice meeting them, time went by really well with all the conversations and laughing sessions. we got to the end of the 2nd day! yey were alive!
we had dinner, and then the most surreal evening! picture this: a handful of crazy trekkers, up on a small hut in the middle of the mountains, with a bunch of nepali people and suddenly, hotel California comes up, and macarena after that, and Michael Jackson, and Madonna, and Jennifer Lopez and everyone just gets up and starts dancing! including peter, 55, Robbin, 60 and mike 64! they have been trekking for 2 weeks and are still going at it! so that was a hilarious night, that ended with me, up and cozy in a nice warm bed in a hut bellow beautiful mountains!
the next day, once again, everyone goes at their own pace. i talk and take pictures, some just walk, some get tired and need brakes.. i climbed this silent hill at maybe 7 in the morning, and arrived a the top and its covered in mist. it was a beautiful and peaceful place. with Tibetan praying flags. i ended up meeting a dozen more people, danish girls, dutch guy, Pascal, Australian girl, Russian girl who was about to get married, Israeli guy, and french girls( Camille and Margot, i remember!! )
the view up in tadapani is breathtaking, and although its quite literally freezing up there, you kind of never want to leave! my hands started pealing and wrinkling the day i started trekking.. like id been in water for hours..
i was a bit disappointed on the last day.. i encountered a lot of kids, and they all asked me for chocolates and sweets, which i didn't have..
so i went by one kid, he must have been about 2 or 3 years old.. and the same happened here, sweets? chocolate? i turned to him.. hoina, mafganus, (i dont have.. sorry) and wanted to move on, and as im about to turn, he picks up a stone! i looked at him.. "are you kidding? really? your agoing to through me at stone? let me get his straight.. i have no sweets so you want to through me a stone? i cant give you anything so get on with your life.." he kept threatening me! i felt ridiculous having a conversation like this, with a 2 year old Nepali in the middle of the mountains.. but yes, as i turned my back to him.. he through the stone..
i guess i cant really blame him. but i was saddened by this.
the last day was painful.. its not the going up bit that hurts, its when you start going down.. my muscles are a big pile of mush! im in pain, because the whole 7hours your legs are supporting your body in order to stop you from falling!

i was reading a magazine this morning and read a couple articles on really impressive people , i wrote some of their names down in my journal, so i want to share them with you guys!
Paul kagame- ended the slaughter caused by the genocide and ended the mass corruption in Rwanda.he was elected Rwandas president in 2000.

somaly man- born around the same time as the Khmer rouge regime was born. at the age of 12 she was sold to sexual slavery, and ended up in a brothel for 10 years, before she managed to escape with the help of an aid worker. she fled Cambodia in 1993. in 1996 she created the AFESIP ( agir pour le femmes en situation precaire) shes helped 4000 women escape brothels and reintegrate them in the society.

Jon Favreau, is 27 and is the person that helps Obamas write his long speeches. his his private speech witter. those speeches that chill so many peoples souls, that move and shake countrys around the world, are written with Obamas input, but the magical words are formed by this one guy behinds scenes.

Barbara Hogan, is 57, she actively resisted apartheid and organized boycotts. for this she spent 8 years of brutal incarceration in Pretoria central prison. she was then released and appointed minister of health.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, is African 1st female president, being such a great inspiration to so many people. like Wangary Maathai, the book im reading is on her, and she was the 1st black woman to win the Nobel prize. shes also an environmentalist and women rights defender.

morning time! wow, croissant and milk tea!

'hello Poppe't! thats one of the little huts! it was freezing!

this is the cremation ceremony.. its not very clear, but maybe you can click on it..

the beautiful fish tail mountain.. its is considered the holly mountain, actually i was told its the holiest mountain on earth.. no one is aloud to climb it.. isnt it beautiful
the little girls ears..
trekkers leave little surprises on the way:) and nature is interested. there are loads of lady birds here!
oh the great trekkers, Robbert,60, Mike, 64 and peter, 55! they were hilarious!
the cobra plant! its a beautiful orchid that was all around the mountains!
the misty hill.. it was so stunning, i didnt have any words. thats Bret, 2 locals and Michael.
i love this picture! its so clear, and she was so still and helpful! :)
Bainey (little sister)and Day(older brother) i gave them some cookies, oh the bliss!
Anapurna... the energy there was amazing! check out the little Alladin curley cloud on the left bottom corner!
venga boys perhaps? :) a guide on my right, and micahel behind me with his dopeness hat, but there were so many more dancers!
veggie dry up preparation!

little girl took that finger right out of her mouth and shoved it on my lens! smudged the camera and giggled of!!
i cant begin to tell you how amazing that horse in the middle of the field was! i was alone, so i took out my remote and took my first self portrait! take a look at the rainbow! :)
women here, as i have said many times before, have such a spirit and are such hard workers.. their hands are the mirror of how much they work..

little hut at night.. cozy double blanket bed.
shes like a little bug isnt she? wide eyes, and big smiles after that.

im ever so proud of this picture, because he wanst actually smiling at all, and when i was finished, i kept my camera up, and hoped that as he moved forward he would give me something, and he did give me a little eye smile.

remember her so well, and that orange door and wall.. she was sad looking

oh!! baby goats, just jumping up and down! our theory is that they are all doped up from all the weed they eat!

the rain season started, soon the monsoons arrive! it just stopped raining! that's my cue*
big hugs to all, jessirela didi bainey

2009-05-12T02:10:00.000-07:00

the two lovers, mini ans kshitiz, and moi at the garden caffe saying goodbye!
robb, which you cant see, but has a broken elbow, and a screwed up foot ( smart guy rode a bike without knowing how to... amongst the chaos of thailand) an mini at the teat time bombora place!
robb with his brithish humor makes fun of me most the time and mini just laughs at me!
! "only in nepal" thats what i keep saying! :)

oh lady in pink right in the beautiful pokhara lake!

as i left the school where Jan volunteers, i saw these beautiful fields!

the freak playing harmonica as they would politely say :)

Pokhara lake after sunset is just a breathtaking site, that i dont think you can take in with justa a picture..

Jan and mini, drinking an everest beer! interesting table conversations that day! haha

powerfully strong woamn, like all of them around here! ( i love the colours. her underdress in the colour of the door and her skirt is the colour od the woods. )

arentbthey gorgous? i took face ones as well but i dont have enough time or space to put every nice picture on here

this is that freaky animal! isnt it cool! like a queen!
where i camped! yey

all the kids at the dallbaht place! the ones that finished my chalk! :) they teached me a qick song game, but i can only remember it finishes with namaste!

beautiful young girl, she was so shy and pretty! its a shame, because she lost her ticka, right before this shot ( ticka are those coloured dots they put on the forehead)

the silk plant they call it..

hello there! the yellow little bulge covering the side of her face is her bays (brother) tummy

the trucks and buses here have funny horns, like they are musical ones! they dont go, beep beep, they go beeberi bumbum brarabaraba! its hillarious. but it means that you cant sleep on the buses because they beep for any reason and no reason at all!

Namascar everyone!
Im back! :)
the night before i left thamel, we had just finished dinner, and as we walked by a lady on the side of the road with 3children around her sleeping, i kneelt down, and asked her if she was ok.. mini had some leaft over pizza,(which i always make everyone pack, so we can give on the road, to the people) and she handed it to her, plus a bottle of water. i gave her my left over cake and she just burst out crying.. i gave her 100 ruppes.. wich is good sum of money around here, but in truth its just the equivalent of the misarable amount of about 1 euro..
i was heart broken that night. and felt terrible on the way to my warm bed..

the next day, i left. and after 4 hours of a hot bus ride, i rafted for 2 days around the chitwan areas which was breathtaking! i just kept thinking how lucky i am to be in Nepal in between hills and mountains, having adrenaline rushes , or just being in calm steady waters. everything here is so beautiful! i know i keep saying it, but its so true!
in between the two days of rafting, we stopped at this beach, and just a few minutes walk from there, was a small road side dallbaht stand. while i was waiting for the food, there were two lovely kids, so i took out my coloured chalk box, and called them to the side to make drawings on the pavement. within 2 minutes, every kid around was surrounding me, they were copying my drawings, and making hearts and all sorts of things, and giggling all the way through.
just so that you can have an idea of how many they were, i have no chalk leaft!
camped on the beach that night (theres a picture of the peaceful place) and made a nice fire. on the other side of the river there were lots of little flash lights, which i figured were people camping or going to fish, but one of the locals said that someone of a nearby village had died, and they were piking wood to do a cremation ceremony. hum
that night and i waited for the fire.. but nothing happened.
as i feel asleep, it felt like someone put the lights on.. it was the giant bright full moon! there was no pollutyion covering it, so i watched it all night. the next day, i saw this really nice white piece of fluff, like a blow a wish plant, so i was going to pick it up, and realised its an animal! theres a cool picture of it as well! i asked one of the locals, who happened to be the best cook ever, and he said that they turn into butterflies later.
after rafting i talked to this local man, must have been at least 60, i dont know his name but he had really good english. turns out he was in the british army for many years. A Gurkha. he had such a warm smile.
as the local bus arrives in pokhara, we approach the movement, and we spot a big mass of people. we got closer and closer, and right as we go by, we realize its a cremation. there is a dead body burning. not on the side of the road, but in the middle of the road. they had rapped him in bandages and just had him there for everyone to watch.. it was a real shock. later as i talked to robb, one of the volunteers, he explained that must have been the body of a local boy, that went to the lake with two other volunteers, and after diving never came back up, till they found the body the day i arrived in pokhara. this is all a bit morbid, but i thinks its an important thing to share with you.
We found Jan, a German science geek( its true :) but its ok, i love flowers and butterfly, so im glad that i can talk to someone that loves them as well and not feel like im boring someone out of their brains, by saying 50 times, "oh look at that! thats amazing! did you see that? "
the next day i went with jan up to where he does his volunteer work at a local school.
oh its amazing how different the systems are all over the world. i watched one of his classes, and its astonishing how all the kids seem to know everything, but they are just repeating text book stuff, so if you actually ask them what something is, they will know the definitions, but wont know what it truly is. something like they will know that a flower has petals, but they wont know what petals are. that kind of a thing. but hes really good, because he asks them, and makes them interact in the movement of the class, and make it dynamic, which is hard here.
i had a peanut butter toast today! yummy
and right now its raining!! WOHOO
tomorrow im going to anapurna, so ill write in a few days, maybe a week, so talk to you then

hugs to all *
jessyrela

tomorrow 8hour bus ride again!

2009-05-08T02:48:00.000-07:00

welcome flower water*

mantra flags- tibetan, hindi, over monkey temple

red chilly rice- they use it to offer the gods food and richness*

this time ill go to Pokhara! we meet a couple of people and we are going there.
there are lots of schools were i could be helpful, and there is the beautiful annapurna circute to trekk! so im super excited about that!
i forgot to mention, that i meet a very funny odd man from the sky, he sais. :)
his name is brian. and has red long beard, hes 60 and has been traveling for a year. i see him everymorning with a coffe in one hand and one ciggy on the other.
i might not writte for a wile because treeking takes as long as it takes, and ill camp around the mount, so there will be no way for me to post pictures or anything!

lots of love to all,
and big mega hugs to mom, dad, samirela my sistirela the big smiler, plimpofsky my laughing buddy, shani banani my cooking companion and my lovely big giant, captain happy tree***

good morning everyone! Today i saw everest!!!

2009-05-06T21:11:00.000-07:00

thats an amazing view!!

there were endless blankets of so many colours

thats mini and me the day we got food poisoning....! but it was a really good day! we were trying to put on the candle*

oh isnt she pretty eating her ice lolli ? yellow to match and all

this is a picture of some of the mounts that surround mount everest!

so we went at 5 in the morning in this little dinggy put put plane, and just went up and up and up... oh gasping all the time at the wonders nature has to give us.. and the sad part is, that you could see much better many years before.. but now polution has taken over..
from town you cant see one mountain.. and thats the only thing that surrounds us...
oh im so glad i could see that and bring a piece to show you*

many many smiles, jessirela
today i listned to the pretty pretty song bigfoot did! its beautiful*

ohh i wish you could see what i see

2009-05-04T10:11:00.000-07:00

amazing kids, laughing away- day before last at the orphanage.

Having a giggle with Dipika, shes a cutie*

these 2 beauties werent from the orphanage.. theynjust watched as our kids went to school and they didnt... it was sad... but they were so sweet.

amazing women here in nepal. they are so strong, in spirit and soul!
all the kids right before school time:)
thats puki, dipa and parmila! cute cute cute
elefant rides are great!!! so much fun!

thats miss millhouse and me going back to kathmandu!

the worst 24 hours of my life...

2009-05-04T09:44:00.000-07:00

so i got to kathmandu healthy..
i woke up the next day, and felt ok, but then it hit me, the worst began.
had a massive fever, so so big i thought i was going to faint.. big delli belly (strong diarreah) shaking all over, beacuse i was so cold from the fever, it must have been so high couse i was crying from all the pain.. locked in the room for 24 hours, no food just water, hoping it would pass.. at the end ended up going to the hospital. ( thanks mamush, thanks babo) which i tell you, is no picknick. hospitals in nepal are just like refugee camps! they made me lay on a dirty bed, and put a drip on my ram, like a sailine water for rehidration. and gave a lot of diferent medicines, which i wouldnt have taken in any other time. but i really was scared.
now, i had some rice and have been sleeping alot, couse im still very weak. but it should be alright now.. moma's coming :) silly lady

miss you all, ill try to put up some pictures from the kids of the orphanage**
big hugs,jessy

2009-05-02T05:07:00.000-07:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Mr. Sexy Sailor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)
hope you have an amazing day and know that im think of you

im back in kathmandu
after long bus rides, crazy rides on the roof top of the buses, which is so funny, couse in portugal you cant drive without a belt, and here you can fit like 15 people on the roof of a bus and its A.OK!
i had a bath with elephants, meet amazing people, had a battle with a spider the size of my hand, and finaly got, to chitwan.. its like 40 degrees there. its an amzing place! lovely kids in the orphanage, they are 23 of them, and only one beautiful mama, mamy bashanti.
the villagers are so sweet and homeley.
the reason im back in town, is they have no water.. there is a water well, and i drank from that, but i probably shouldnt have, considering it wasnt very clean, and by that i mean it was yellow at its best... not to good for me, nor the kids. so i got very ill. i had cicled to the next village (bare in mind its 40 degrees and villages are quite far appart!) to get some water, but it finished really fast.
i couldnt breath very well, my head was a bomb, and i was really weak, so weak my hands were shaking... i couldnt stay any longer.. and it was to hot to keep hidrated. so i had to go. which was very sad for me, and the kids, who kept saying.. oh didi (older sister) dont go!! but im so glad now, beause im im alive and kicking!!! yey
at the orphanage we got up at 6, id help them with theyr homework, cook dall baht( rice with potatos and lentils) and walk them to the bus stop at 9. in between that tie and 4, i would wash clothes, scrub scrub, shovel shit, clean the house and so on, then the kids come back, help with homework again( they are sooo smart) and then make dall bhat again, and maybe at 10 they will be off to bed! so, long days.
right now i have no idea where im going next, but im smiling and hope to talk to you all soon!

im happy, having a blast *

miss you all, jessy

lala is yes

2009-04-24T08:54:00.000-07:00

little beautiful girl, she saw my camera and asked me to take a picture, all her friends came running from across the street, and they all had such huge smiles! they were screaming all the time, take solo picture of me! solo! :)

Mini and Moi at the reggae bar that Shitis brought us to! (never imagined there would be a reggae bar in nepal!) mini got a attaked by a monkey!! hah

this was taken at the buddihst monastary today, light a candle for peace.

Isnt she gorgeous? she just stared at me and waved at my camera, so i took her picture! such a sweet lady*

some friends of the little girl that also wanted pictures. they were great, just posing away and laughing all the time!

this is an adorable man, that was praying at the buddihst monastary! i asked him if i could take a picture, so, very fast, he put his hat on and posed for me. i smiled and left hem with a namaste.

Another friends of the little girl! they were such shining stars! *

today i bought my mamush a SQUARE moon stone ring! yey mamina belina!!
so, the city is quite fun and really alive, but i have decided that i want to go to the mountains and villages, so after tomorrow, im going to chitwan.. a village in the middle of the jungle, they have a monastary there and an orphanage, where i can stay to sleep eat and help! so im really excited about that! its and 8 hour bus trip in these really crappy roads. im not going to have internet there, so im not sure when i can writte again.. so, till next time, many many hugs
jessy*

oh i met this really nice israely couple, they are 23 and have been traveling for 4 months now, they tought me so hebrew words:
rain: gesham
friend: hraver
beautiful: yefe
autumn- stav
spring-aviv
love-haviv

so, much haviv to all.jessy

just a few moments*

2009-04-22T10:29:00.000-07:00

after this picture, she pulled out of her sleave the biggest smile.

jessy, amazed at all the old silver pieces!

i see mohan every day, and every day he says with a smile! jessy chechi, how you doing? today he gave these little roasted thinngis!

happy happy day ma'am! so nice you take picture of me and my brother:) they put petals on my head, and with that red finger he dabed my forehead.

day by flying*

2009-04-22T09:58:00.000-07:00

namaste everyone!
today was a full full day!
a local girl, sanjitzi, taught me some nepali, and it was so much fun
im spending my time with a girl i meat here, mini, and two local boys, i cant really remeber their names most the time, but we are always walking about together, they show us around alot, drinking chai, and singing neplai songs!
moskeetos here are crazy!!
the light hasnt been cut off to often today, only a couple of times, but very ali ali( little)
today i was quite surprised, as there was a little boy sitting near the trash, and i looked at him and smiled, he came running to me, asking for money, i said, follow me, to the market. i asked, what do you want? powder milk( really not cheap)
one of the guys i was with said, dont do it, so,
instead i bought the boy a big pack of cookies. when i handed them over he said no and left.
later on the local boy said.. never trust, ever.
he explained to me, "you give him milk, he sells it for half price, and then goes of to buy something that is made to repair tires, puts it in a paper bag. gets together with other kids, and they inhale it. it makes them dizzy for a couple of minutes, and then stops them from feeling hungry.." so that made me really sad..
two steeps ahead, and i still have this cookie bag.. theres a little kid sitting on the side of the road. i look at him and wave the cookies. HUGE smile, he waves back, so i go towards him and more kids run to us, i gave them all the cookies and they were just blissfully happy!
later on i whent to this really amazing garden, called the garden of dreams. and it really was*
in the evening, ahh! just remembered one of the guys name! shitsi,
so he said, ok, we go bar! so we whent to: Tondra Reggae Bar.
there were some guys playing music, and some nepalese food, and drinks! had a laugh and off to happy home jessy goes!
light is still on and i want to share all this with you guys!

deri ramru (very beautiful) day to all!
ps-im a great bargner! haha
many many smiles, jessy

pikky? just a bitty*

2009-04-21T07:35:00.000-07:00

old lady, with bindi powder on her hands..
she was in a temple selling old prayer rolls.
dhanyabath

Namaste! Namascar!

2009-04-21T06:06:00.000-07:00

^Buddha statue, the dabs of colour are put on during prayers, its supposed to simbolise the wisdom of the gods^

if you want to say hi, you say namaste, but if u want to be very respectful, you say namascar.
AH! its amazing!
people, are a bit suspicious sometimes, but most of the time it takes one smile and theyre so kind!
tou a ficar numa casa de uma familia local, um pouco disfuncional(haha) vivem ali 8 pessoas sem contar comigo, e comemos a mesma coisa ao pequeno almoco ao almoco e ao jantar: arroz com leite, legumes mega picantes, e sopa de lentilhas!
as criancas correm atraz de mim sorridentes, acham imensa piada, uma branquinha cm sardas! querem fotos e ouvir-me a falar nepales, dhaniubad! (obrigada) e comeca tudo a rir! mas os locais cm quem estou a ficar dizem q estao admirados por estar a aprender tao r'apido!

here you cant share your food. if you have touched it, its contamination. you cant share a bottle of water, that has touched your lips, contamination. cant use your left hand to eat, pass things or touch someone. thats the hand they use to wipe their bumbum..! you cant hold hands, hug, kiss on the mouth, on the face or forehead, if doing so with the opposite sex..
i asked one of the girls that lives in my home ( they call it the happy home) rina, 17 what shes wants to do in life. she said.. "part time help mamma at home, part time watch TV. then have kids as well.."
after a long day, it started raining! they say it hasnt rained in ages! so, everyone on the streets just starts running and laughing "the rain godess must be happy with us" :)

the temples are amazing! this is all amazing!
many many smiles to everyone
mero naam jessy ho!
my name is jessy

wagamama night*

2009-04-18T17:30:00.000-07:00

And so, Samy and Robbie took me out on a london dinner!

yummy food and great company.

uhhh mustash kitchen fun! only one pound everyone! :)

hugs

airport drop-off:)

2009-04-18T17:17:00.000-07:00

after saying a fairwell to mamunshka and papush,

shani banani, orlandini tralimini, lindos lindos, levaram-me ao aeroporto

e aturaram uma jessy emocional..

thank you guys!

wohiii, shani has a cat! miss lima:) its the perfect name!

hugs to all,

my trip has begun*

Bonjour everyone!

2009-04-16T04:08:00.000-07:00

bonjour tout le mond!

this is my travel blog, created by my dearest samy! :)

i leave this saturday and will try to keep you updated on this page, with pictures and all about my treasured adventures! im not sure how it is with internet cafes around where im staying, but im sure ill have no trouble, so come along, im taking you all with me on this great journey to nepal..

love you all,

spinning like a madwoman, jessy