During these first ten days I have been living with a local host family. Neeru, Didars, and their mother Sita keep a beautiful home only a ten minutes walk from where I’m volunteering, Pashupatinath. As a Brahmin Hindu family it seems like the prime area to live being that Pashupati is known as the “Mecca of Shiva-worshipping Hindus”. Both in their early thirties and yet-to-be wed, Neeru works as an emergency call responder and Didars is a banker, while Ama tends to the home. I’m learning a lot  about the modern Nepali way of life and more than I realized has to do with social media, mainly Facebook. We do our laundry by hand and hang it on the rooftop which fills a satisfaction I usually don’t experience back home. We eat dal-bhat for most meals and cookies with milk chiya as snack. The picture to the right shows a groomsman’s attire at a Nepali wedding, equipped with a family heirloom of a 100 + year old sword. Below, stands Ama and Neeru in their wedding party attire which I also had the privilege to attend. My favorite part of the experience thus far has been my dancing buddy, 3 and a half year old Satsang, because fun is universal!