Excellent meals from this beautiful new kitchen. My first time to try water buffalo in sherpa stew and traditional Nepali dal Bhat! Also Sherpa salt tea grown right down the hill! 

Headed into the Sulombuku Region. The life is very hard but the land and mountains are absolute paradise. 

Lukla lower secondary school & mahendra joyti! Our kids are growing up so beautiful and strong! 

Never ever gets old, always a thrill! Today storms in the pass and racing the radar to land!

Heading out for Everest region early tomorrow! Whirlwind trek to all our schools up past Namche and down. I can’t wait to be back and see our girls again! 

Today was an honor to attend meetings with prestigious change organizations. We are learning so much and finding amazing resources to share with our girls. Thank you Jaya for sharing the amazing work that UNICEF has prepared for adloescents in Nepal. Babi & I had a wonderful day of learning. We came out of meetings into a storm while riding home on the motorcycle so we took shelter and a VIP of hot tea at Rising Rays Schoole with the sweet Bhattarai family! Love them! Great day!

I taught the girls to make paper beads and they constructed this gorgeous necklace for me for Mother’s Day.! I will treasure this necklace with each bead wrapped carefully with love and laughter. Thank you! ❤️

The girls brought gifts of henna and it is really beautiful but the best gift of all was spending time with them interacting, laughing, and learning about each other. Building personal relationships with these girls is beyond amazing.

There is no way to express the joy I felt when a group of our scholarship girls wanted to celebrate Mother’s Day with me today. We cooked American & Nepali foods, baked cookies , and they brought a cake that said ” Happy Birthday to Our Mom” and made beautiful cards. I really love these girls. 

We had meetings at the embassy across the city today and the pollution was extraordinarily bad. A girls gotta do, what a girls gotta do to get the job done! Not our finest fashion hour but it had a badass quality to it. 😎 We learned about the American Embassy Library resources, MOOCS, and Regional English Language Programs. These hold possibilities for programming for our older girls.