my weekend at chitwan national park

O my gosh that trip was definitly so much fun. The first day friday we swam in the river (which has a lot of crocs) so we brought or nepali guide with us to swim. Then everyone went back except for me carly nate and alex and 3 elephants trainers( mahous) came with their elephants and said we could help bathe them for free. So we played meaning we would climb up them and they would squirt us or fall over so we would fall off. We did that for like an hour and it was definitly the funnest part of the weekend.

After that we went to the elephant breeeding center and saw the only pair of elephant twins that are alive. pretty awesome. and I got to feed a baby elephant. After dinner we went to a cultural show which was like 20 men dancing with swords and stuff and then at the end we got to go up their and learn some of the dance. A nepali man said "you are a good dance".. haha I love that they all try to speak english. Sat we woke up so ealry after staying up late playing that card game and went on a 3 hour hike through the jungle we had to run away from a wild elephant and saw lots of deer. o and we also did a canoe ride. we got back and all the tourists bathed the elephants not as fun because it was only for like 15 mins. and then we had some free time and lunch and went swimming again. Then me nate alex abir and sarah went for a 3 hour bike ride to a place called 20,000 lakes (it was only one lake though) the whole ride was on bumpy rodes and on the way we were going through villages and our guide asked this family who was getting rice off the plants if we could do it. So we all got a tiurn hitting the rice plant against a stool and all the rice would fly off. very cool. At the lake we saw a rhino it went into the water crossed the lake and got out on the other side. they are smaller than I imagined. Biked back and everyone that hadnt gone was still sleeping, we woke them up and had dinner and then just hung out and shopped a little after. Nate had this salesman that he knew from the last time his name was borat and he gave us such good prices on all the stuff we bought let us put in a bob marley CD and then when we were leaving gave us all free necklaces. People are so so so nice here. but I loved that his name was borat. Sunday we woke up even more early 5:15 and went on an elephant ride through the jungle only saw deer.. no rhinos or tigers.We just got smacked in the face by so many trees and tons of bugs were on us after that we left.

Sorry I have not written in so long. I have been so busy and all my free time I spend talking with the other volunteers. They are all such good friends and are going to be so hard to leave. I defintly cried when Ruth( we were attached at the hip for two weeks) left last weekend.

I am performing with my nepali dance class tomorrrow afternoon. I have to wear the traditional curta so I will definitly have pictures and videos taken.
I really want to stay here. But I miss home to.