Back in Kathmandu

District Governor Elect 2011-2012 Basu Dev Golyan and Liz at Basu's factory in Biratnagar, the industrial capital of Nepal.

The Presidents of the three Rotary Clubs of Biratnagar, District Governor Elect and the GSE Team.

Rotary Club of Dharan's President, Dr Badri Prasad Babu picking rhododendrons-the national flower of Nepal--for us.

Dr. and Mrs. Gyan B Shrestha, Katherine's host family in Dharan

Katherine and Nate with the librarian at the Gramin Janata Higher Secondary School. The library is in much need of books in the Nepali language.

House mother and seven of her ten adopted children at the SOS Children's Village in Itahari

Liz at a Holi celebration. Holi is the spring festival of colors where everyone gets colors splashed and smeared all over them.

The India -- Nepal border at Biratnagar

An international breakfast at the home of the first District Governor of District 3292 (Nepal), Dr. Tika Man Vaidya. Katherine and Liz went with their hosts Bijaya and Gabby Mallapaty

GSE Team and hosts from Rotary Club Patan in the Kathmandu Valley

Matt and his host from Rotary Club Patan, Kamal Mani Dixit. Still celebrating Holi as you can see :-)

We arrived back in Kathmandu yesterday and are now with our third set of host families from the Rotary Club of Patan. Despite only being with each family for two to three days, we've grown attached to our families, which has made it sad to say good-bye when it's time to move on to the next host club.

The reason that we don't stay too long with one family in one place is because there are many clubs in District 3292 that want to host us and show us around. It's a very good reason and by the end of our month, we'll likely have seen more of Nepal than many Nepalis.

~Katherine and Liz