Aussie Friends
Saturday, September 12, 2009
We spent yesterday afternoon making music with our two new friends from Australia, Sarah and Tim. Sarah will be living here in Surkhet for the next 8 months working with a local NGO and doing research on women's rights. She is studying to be an anthropologist. She knows a lot about feminism and women's issues and is a fabulous writer. I'll try to share some of her writing here later. It's been so great having her around and she's learning Nepali so fast.
Tim, her partner is a musician and is visiting for the month. He brought his guitar over yesterday and we had a major JAM session. He even wrote a song about Kopila Valley. Tim is so talented and incredibly gifted with children. He works with aboriginal children in the outback teaching them music. He makes me wish I could play the guitar. Singing is so much more fun with a guitar, isn't it?
Yesterday as Tim and Sarah were leaving they said that they always felt better after visiting our home. I thought that was funny because we feel the same way when they come to visit! They bring so much joy with them. I tried to upload the video I took yesterday of them singing "In the Jungle" but my connection is too slow so a photo will have to do. Cheers to our new Aussie friends!