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| On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Jeff Kim wrote: i shaved my head yesterday. i look like an alien baby. i do a fair bit of walking here everyday and 90% of the time im looking at the ground dodging garbage, shit/vomit, dead animals, you name it, its quite gross. and when u get close to the river it really smells foul i swear there are pigs yes pigs rummaging through the garbage that the river washes up...ill upload the images soon. or maybe u guys dont wanna see it. another reason why i keep my head down is the pollution/dirt here is quite bad and it really hurts my eyes and my throat when i keep my head up too long. all the cars here use diesel here and u do not wanna be standing behind a car anywhere close to its exhaust pipe. today i think i ate something bad in the morning and by the time i got to the hospital i really had to go do major diahrrea - but after one look at the hole i had to go in, my stomach didnt feel so bad haha. i clenched up and held it all day. going to the bathroom after i got home was orgasmic.
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| On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Jeff Kim wrote: just got in safely to kathmandu this morning - spent the last week bouncing back and forth between Seoul and Hong Kong. yesterday I flew from Hong Kong to Delhi where I had a ~8 hour lay over and from there i flew into Nepal this morning. Seriously hanging around delhi during those hours was the scariest experience ever. Walking past through a sea of unsavory indian cab drivers grabbing at me and yelling things at me in the dark, I seriously almost shat myself. Military guys with guns walking around everywhere, cars honking and people yelling in the background every which way, I seriously dunno how I'm gonna go back there next month and spend a whole week by myself. i dunno if its because of slumdogs or because of puneets horror stories or because i just finished reading kite runner, whatever the reason, im so freaking scared of people in that region. anyhow after i survived delhi and landed in nepal (seriously, they're kathmandu airport - prolly theyre biggest in the country - is this little ass dinky red bricked building about half the size of long beach airport), taxi-ing through the city to get to where im staying was freaking surreal. the dilapitated buildings, old ladies carrying twigs on their backs, motorcycles and rickshaws whizzing by with absolutely no regards to any form of traffic rules - ive definitely had multiple 'wut the hell am i doing' moments in the past 24 hours. but once i finally got here, things looked up a little. the program director seems like a genuinely good guy and it looks like im basically gonna be staying in a small orphanage type house - the six kids here are so well behaved and they are just so so precious. they grabbed my hands the minute i came in and dragged me around to play with them. whenever im not working at the hospital ill be spending a lot of time here with them so im really excited about that. ok i actually have to wrap it up now the electricity is about to go out (the entire country only gets 8 hours of electricity every day, during set times) - ill try to send some more updates and pictures in the next few days. miss you all jeff
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| Sigh. I guess on the bright side I get to bring in 18 year olds to D&Bs this time next year.If you're in town, come by this Saturday 3-4pm ish to University Park for some bbq. Eat some hot dogs, drink some beers, play some frisbee/soccer/run around in the grass. I'd love to see ya'll out there.
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