Two welcomes to Nepal

So we were lucky enough to get 2 welcomes to Nepal:

1) on the first night we went for dinner with some other medical students, including 2 from our year at uni who had been doing a module out here for the past month - Rebecca and David, and 3 other students we know that are also doing their electives at the children's hospital here - Kenny, Alex and Shorsha!  It felt so odd to be socializing with so many people from home in somewhere so far away and different as Nepal. But it was nice after the journey and the culture shock to see some familiar faces and get some much needed tips for our time here!



2) after a few nights adjusting to our new home for the next month and recovering from jetlag, and the 'altitude' (which we are determined is high enough here to affect us as kathmandu is actually at a higher altitude than anywhere in the UK including the top of Ben Nevis!), we moved in with the Nepali family we are going to be staying with for the next month.  They made us feel so welcome, and told us we are to treat their home like our home and hope that we feel like part of their family! Soo lovely!  There is another medical student from Germany also staying here (also called Kat!) and so she is going to be our nextdoor neighbour for the next wee while and already we have had many adventures together.  The home we are staying in is slightly out of the busy tourist area of Kathmandu, for which I am very grateful as I don't know if I could have stayed there for an extended period, and has amazing views from the roof out over the mountains surrounding the kathmandu valley.  I am looking forward to the many gorgeous sunsets we will be able to see from here!