Field visit to Terai

Kristine just came back from a visit with colleagues from Norad and the Formative Research Project to two districts in the southern part of Nepal - Terai, which borders to India (Rupandehi and Kapilvastu). We visted schools and early childhood education centres and talked to the district education offices. Nepal has made great progress in increasing the number of children who go to school, but there are still many challenges of equity and quality. It was interesting to see what the situation in the lowland is like compared to schools in the hills and Kathmandu that I have seen before. I have yet to visit the really remote mountain areas where a big problem remains of enrolling all the children of school going age. For this you need to include days of walking to reach the schools.

Our orange tree

The oranges on the tree in our garden are now ready to be picked. They taste fantastic!

Trip to Dhulikhel

The embassy arranged a picnic trip to Dhulikhel last saturday for everyone working at the embassy and their families. The whole day was filled with good food, games and fun for the adults and kids. We decided to stay over at a very nice resort called Dwarika's. They view is fantastic from there and we went for a short hike with the kids up to a temple. Pictures are added to the webalbum: http://picasaweb.google.com/lasse.storholt

Filip 2 years old!

Filip turned 2 years old the 14th of November and it was time to have a small party with all his and our friends here. There are a lot of other norwegian kids here, actually there is now a total of 5 two-year olds. . They all attended Filips birthday party so it was a lot of fun. We(Ram) made pizza for the kids and the adults and we all had a lot of fun.

Webalbum here: http://picasaweb.google.com/lasse.storholt/Filip2R