Quick Snack

Location: Nangi, Nepal
Local Time: Wednesday, Jan 4, 2005 - 4:28pm

So, a guy wandered by the school yesterday. He had a big basket on his back, the kind they use around here instead of backpacks. It was mostly empty when he got here, but he still had a couple bags left. Bread. Buns. Tasty, edible objects made of white flour.

He lives in a village a couple hours walk away, and every so often brings a basket of bread over this way to sell.

40Rs ($0.80 CND) for a bag of buns. The school even bought them for us. Living here has been really cheap. When I was first looking for places to volunteer, I found lots of places that charge a mere $2000 for a month of volunteer service.

Here, my big expenses have been the 100Rs ($2 CND) every 2 weeks I spend to get a bottle of pop and a pile of biscuits (cookies to those of us not speaking the Queens English.)

Well, anyway, this morning, as part of breakfast, I broke one of the buns into bite sized snacks, whipped an egg in a bowl, dipped the pieces in the egg and fried them in oil.

It was pretty tasty.