Momos, music and smiles all round
Posted:02 Feb 2010 04:05
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| Last Friday was an exciting day in Pepsi-Cola Town Planning, Kathmandu. A few volunteers were leaving for home and to say goodbye they organised a concert and party at the New Life Children’s home (Volunteer Society Nepal’s orphanage). It proved to be a great way to spend a Friday night, in what is otherwise a silent suburb. All the VSN staff, their kids and the volunteers squeezed into the orphanage at 5pm where a house full of very excited children were getting themselves dressed up for the concert and munching on some sweet treats. Whilst the kids did their last dress rehearsal we all helped to make momos in the kitchen. With over 20 hungry mouths to feed a big team effort was important! Beesal mixed the buff meat with the secret blend of spices, Gelu mixed up the hot sauce, Nick rolled the dough and the rest of us tried our best to stuff the mixture into the dough in vaguely momo like shapes. This is not as easy as it looks when the Nepali’s do it! If there is a knack then it will take another few months of volunteering to get it. Once the momos were steamed and ready to eat, the whole house fell silent for half an hour of filling bellies with delicious food. I think about 50 each was the average number consumed, quite a feat given that some of the children are just 5 years old. The hot sauce was no barrier either with the call of pani, pani! (water) being echoed throughout as the children flapped their hands in front of their mouths. After the feasting came the entertainment. The volunteers had prepared some dancing for the kids and they each took it in turns to sing a song of their choice – a nice mix of Nepali and English classics that found the rest of us humming away. The volunteers were also called up for an impromtu singsong of their own, which lead Nick to get all 20 of us to do the hokey-cokey bringing on much hysteria from the kids. Finally it was time to try and calm the children down and say goodbye. The New Life Children’s Home presented the volunteers leaving the next day with beautiful and very touching hand made cards to say thank you for all their love and support. A few tears later and we all headed off to bed, the adults as exhausted as the kids, but all with the warm feeling of love and laughter! To find out more about what's going on at Volunteer Society Nepal read our latest news on [web link]. |
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