{"id":427,"date":"2017-02-06T06:38:22","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T13:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/movements-migrations\/?p=427"},"modified":"2017-02-06T06:38:22","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T13:38:22","slug":"my-kathmandu-host-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/movements-migrations\/my-kathmandu-host-family\/","title":{"rendered":"My Kathmandu Host Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-429 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/movements-migrations\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/268\/2017\/02\/KIMG2317-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"KIMG2317\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/movements-migrations\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/268\/2017\/02\/KIMG2317-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/movements-migrations\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/268\/2017\/02\/KIMG2317-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/movements-migrations\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/268\/2017\/02\/KIMG2317.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/>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&#8217;m volunteering, Pashupatinath. As a Brahmin Hindu family it seems like the prime area to live being that Pashupati is known as the &#8220;Mecca of Shiva-worshipping Hindus&#8221;. 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&#8217;m learning a lot \u00a0about 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&#8217;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&#8217;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!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-430 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/movements-migrations\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/268\/2017\/02\/KIMG2350-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"KIMG2350\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/movements-migrations\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/268\/2017\/02\/KIMG2350-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/movements-migrations\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/268\/2017\/02\/KIMG2350-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/movements-migrations\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/268\/2017\/02\/KIMG2350.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-431 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/movements-migrations\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/268\/2017\/02\/KIMG2324-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"KIMG2324\" width=\"399\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/movements-migrations\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/268\/2017\/02\/KIMG2324-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/movements-migrations\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/268\/2017\/02\/KIMG2324-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/movements-migrations\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/268\/2017\/02\/KIMG2324-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/movements-migrations\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/268\/2017\/02\/KIMG2324-676x380.jpg 676w, https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/movements-migrations\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/268\/2017\/02\/KIMG2324.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 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&#8217;m volunteering, Pashupatinath. As a Brahmin Hindu family it seems like the prime area to live being that Pashupati is known as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"geo":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/movements-migrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/movements-migrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/movements-migrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/movements-migrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/movements-migrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/movements-migrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/movements-migrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/movements-migrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/movements-migrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}