Hello from Rickshaw in Nepal! Well... we've been having quite a time of it, what with a relay race of team members going down with dog bites, dysentery, and whatnot. But Nepal has been lovely... we're so lucky to be in this tiny country nestled within the mountains, surrounded by the most affectionate little kids! The refuge run by EBT at which we're working is set in idyllic rolling fields on the side of a mountain... working here has been such a privilege. Yes, and then there are the forty wilful little bundles of energy we've been trying to get into performance-ready form in a week!
Today was dress-rehearsal.... and mayhem reigned. Our kids tried their very hardest, but trying to get a shiny crown and cape / toga / skirt to stay on 6 yrs olds for a period of more than a few seconds turned out to be nigh impossible... our team of four trying to wrestle with forty turned rather manic ourselves, trying to juggle props, magically vanished cast members, costumes on wrong cast members, kids that seemed to suddenly lose comprehension of any of what was going on and would cheerfully wander in and out at totally the wrong times and places... End of dress rehearsal, it was a little bit like having been run over by a 10 tonne truck :p But the show will be great tomorrow! And our kids are sooooo brilliant! They're totally irrepressibly cheerful and affectionate... we might feel bad after bellowing at them for props to be *moved* *now* from backstage... but they remain meltingly beaming and affectionate as ever. Childhood is amazing... apparently even life in a refuge can't dim that amazingness - it was our privilege to work with these kids, certainly not the other way around...
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