Rickshaw rides in the rain for shopping

Tonight EKTA Publishing held a reception in my honor to celebrate my newly published book. General Bala and Babi both spoke at the event on m y behalf and Bala officially presented the book! It was an evening surrounded with Nepali family and friends, my ENG girls, colleagues, and my grad students. I am humbled and thankful for all the love and support given to me.

These gorgeous flowers were delivered today as congratulations for the book launch. Thank you so much Mala & Subu

We conducted at collaborative workshop on suicide awareness at Institute for Crisis Management . The graduate students from crisis management and counseling psychology masters attended.

These are the retreat gift bags!

We hiked out of the mountains to catch our rides back to Kathmandu. The swinging bridges were a surprise!

Our final morning we shared letters, hugs, tears, and laughs. It was an amazing time with the girls. My grad students were simply wonderful. They stepped up and were on point for leading, supporting, problem solving, and fmostly for opening their hearts to these girls of love so!

Gifts from my students and my girls💕

Since I couldn’t go back to sleep, at 5:00 am I made coffee and went out to watch the sun rise in the mountains. So peaceful. Suddenly and very softly music came from across the mountain. School children singing “we shall overcome”

What a way to start a day! I’m so glad I didn’t miss it!!!!