Meet Our Orphans (or at least read about them)!!

Namaste (that's the one word we know, so you better get used to it)!

So we arrived in Pokhara on Sunday and went straight to the orphanage where we will be volunteering for the next little while. There are only 7 kids living there, but it took us little to no time to figure them out. Here's a very high school yearbook-style rundown of who's most likely to do what:

Most Likely to Work in the Sex Trade (of her own free will) - Susmita
What to say about Susmita? She loves to straddle things... it's a little shocking. More often than not, she is not wearing underwear (most of them don't) and rubbing her crotch up on the corner of the table, on our legs, or any other place she can find. She also likes to breatsfeed the other children for no apparent reason.

Most Likely to Walk a Marathon - Shristi
Slow and steady wins the race with Shristi. She does everything the other kids do, but waaaayyy slower. This works out in her favour, though, as she generally has more energy than the rest of them at the end of the day. Our favourite thing to do is watch her eat. While the others are shovelling food into their mouths as fast as the posibly can, she is slowly eating her rice. Only thing is, she probably eats twice as much as anyone else! Trixy little minx!!

Most Likely to Win and Ironman Contest (or grow up with brain damage) - Samrat
The reason we give Samrat both of these "most likelys" is because of how he gets manhandled by the other kids. Samrat is 1 - just had his birthday on Monday - and the other kids love to pick him up... they are not, however, very gentle at all, so he often gets pulled up by the armpits, dragged along the floor, or dropped on the head. Most of the time, he doesn't even make a sound... and when he does cry, it's for a total of about 3 minutes. This is why we reckon he'll either win the ironman competition, or be dropped on his head one to many times to make it that far.

Most Likely to Wind Up in Jail (or a Mafia Boss) - Biraj
Biraj is definitely the ring-leader/shit-disturber at the orphanage. He's always doing mean things to the other kids and somehow managing to get them into trouble for it. It is also worth noting that Biraj absolutely does not an indoor voice. He yells. Always.

Most Likely to Win a Beauty Pageant - Mamata
Not only does Mamata have gorgeous eyes, but she walks and talks like a beauty queen would. She's slow and graceful and always seems to be considering you, whether you are eating your daal bhat, playing with the other kids, or talking to her straight on.

Most Likely to End up in Anger Management - Manoj
Manoj is a real cuddlebug. He's loves to sidle up to us and cuddle... which is awkward because he's always really wet and he has a very warm crotch. Other than this, though, Manoj has quite a tendancy to freak out at the other kids and hit them out of the blue. We try to stop him every time, but seeing as how he doesn't understand a word we say, this is a bit difficult.

Most Likely to Break Steph's Heart with the Things He's Seen in his 10 year Life - Narayan
Narayan is the oldest kid at the orphanage. He is ten, and helps the house mother run the place. He makes us sad because he is always being asked to do work, while the other kids play around. Also, up until recently, Narayan was living on the street, so you have to know that can't have been easy and that he's seen way too many bad things for his age. Narayan is awesome, though, and if we were going to sneak a child home in our suitcase, we think it would probably be him.

So those are our orphans. We love them to death. Aside from how lovely they are, there are two other things worth noting.

1) Kasra has a sinus infection which has caused his nose to swell up to twice (maybe three times) its normal size. He looks like a caroon character who has been punched in the nose. If he wasn't in so much pain, it would be really quite funny. He's on at least 7 different kinds of medications, so he should be ok in no time.

2) We see waaaayyyy too much genitalia at the orphanage. The girls never wear underwear under their dresses, so Kas is always freaking out. The boys like to whip our their junk and pee at every opportunity. The baby has at least three pairs of pants with holes running from one knee to the next, which, of course, means that his penis is hanging out all the time. On top of that, they are always sitting him around the place like this... on the table (where we eat, by the way), on the floor, on the balcony. We're pretty sure his package has touched every imaginable surface of the place.
The genitals thing has become so blase that, the other day, Steph was sitting at the kitchen table, while two kids sat on top of it. The girl decided to sit cross-legged, exposing her hoo-ha. Before she had a chance to cover it up (which she did - good for her!), the boy stuck his fingers in it!!!!!!!!!!!! We couldn't even make something like this up, it was so shocking!!! Steph didn't know what to do (certainly, in Canada, it would have been a huge deal!), so she quickly moved his hand from there and then washed her hands. So weird.

Well, there's your genitals story for the day. Have a good one!!

Steph and Kas