My first traditional dress: Kurta Sura
Right now everything is slowly starting to get on the right way, I am diving deeper into the Nepali culture, the Country and the life. By now I’m also an owner of my own Kurta sura, the traditional dress over here, nearly every Nepalese woman is wearing it every day. It’s really comfortable and practical, Kurta is the top of the dress and the sura are the fitting pants to the dress.
How to get it? Walk into a shop, you should take an experienced person with you for finding the right shop and get a good price as also quality. Than the seller will put 100 different fabrics on you, and you will get over 1000 meanings also from the people on the streets, the most often one will be “raamroo” what means beautiful. At the end you will be so confused that you don’t know any more what you actually wanted to buy^^. After you bought the fabric that you like , you need to find the right tailor ,the best one are mostly in the back of small houses and you won’t find them if you don’t know the right people that will bring you there. The tailor will take your body details for the size really persisted, and after two days you can pick up your finished kurta sura. But be aware even they got your whole body length in detail the dress will be at least 3 numbers to big. After a long discussion and changing it three times it will fit you perfectly. Without my Anti I guess it wouldn’t been possible in the way I got mine and for a smart price two piece for 35 euros.
Moving on different ways…
Our office moved, so I got introduced in the Nepali way of changing houses it was really an experience you shouldn’t miss in your live time. Before you move out of the old house, the new rentals are already half moved in, off course this works also the different way around. From the beginning it wasn’t really sure when we would move exactly now, so even my boss was quiet confused as he entered the half empty office that morning. The guys that helped us with the moving haven’t meant it in a bad way they just wanted to do a good job, so they decided to start by themselves to build down the half office in the morning, including computers and working spaces they still where needed that day. (The moving as I found out later was planned for the next day). The system of pacing the stuff over here is fascinating, I would nearly go so far and say there is no system existing, but you just need to start to see it out of another view. How to pack up and store computers was one of the first things I learned on that day, take a big pap carton , fold it up, fix the ground with some ribbon store the 10 computers how they are fitting in , fix the top with some ribbon, finished. Now the box is off course too heavy to carry it, so take it and just role it up and down the steps to the 4th floor, easy.
The Streets in Kathmandu especially in Thamel are too small for a car or an LKW so we just rented a bike Rickshaw, they really made it to move everything with this wheel without a big damage to the items, fascinating. We should have Internet, water and electricity in the next three days in-between this time we try to get our workplaces in-between our tea breaks in the right position, takes a while everybody is happy with the arrangement of one table.
Even if it doesn’t sounds like this I am really working from Sunday to Fridays, and it makes fun 😉
*Short note: By now the office is without Internet, electricity and water for one week. But we are in good hope that it comes the next few days.