Day 12 - Thursday Relatively uneventful day today. Breakfast (9:30) was a hard-boiled egg and curried/spicy chick peas (“Chana” in Nepali). All cold. We have water. No lessons till the afternoon so spent the morning painting. I’m so dissatisfied with finish of the painting and the walls clearly need several coats. Mentioned this to the teacher who disagreed and said it was at a very high standard. For Nepal. Was he just placating me? Not sure, but I’ll assume he was being honest and not just polite. Now I feel better J Lunch: Daal Bhat! Class 6. 2nd lesson and no computer hands on yet. :( 30 minutes before computer lesson: No power! I’ve started to prepare backup lessons now. Just in case, so I wasn’t totally at a loss. Thunder storms are rolling around the hills, intermittent heavy rain and thunder/lightning. That seems to be the time at which most power failures occur. I heard that the last power outage that lasted two days was resolved by four of th...