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Time is flying by and now its nearly Christmas... crazy.

Im right now uploading some photos of my apartment onto flickr so you can see what its like... (click on the link on the right hand side of this page) I feel like I am settled now in, but also feeling quite poor as the majority of the stuff I've had to buy... oh for a relocation allowance...
anyways it shall be cheap next month!

this week I discovered that post from Mongolia to Nepal is twice as quick as post from England to Nepal. Random... i also bought the most fandabulous mountain bike (possibly another reason for feeling poor?!) now there are plenty of mountains, I just have to get fit to ride up them... there is a group of what I imagine to be hardcore men (why else would they go out at 5.45am?) who go out in the mornings 3x a week... I think it will be some time before I manage to get out of bed at that hour, especially as its cold in the mornings at the moment... aside from mountains, the bike will be useful for pootling around and exploring places. I havent really seen much of Kathmandu aside from the areas around my house and work...

Anthony is arriving tomorrow which is most excitabling, especially as he is bringing me some hair straighters... the perm wont go away and now looks a shaggy mess. Hair straighters be the only answer...
almost as exciting as that is the discovery of pesto in a supermarket. I had resigned to not being able to eat pest for a year as i couldnt see any, or the ingrediants to make it, but yesterday I saw 2 small jars gleaming amongst the jars of tomato paste. hooorah... on reflection i think a large part of my diet is pasta, vegetables and pesto (and paneer - Nepali cheese substitute)...

thats enough for now...