Holi, Weddings and a film shoot

March 15, 2009 at 8:29 am · Filed under Uncategorized

Hello my crazy but loyal followers!!!

O.k. so I have gone to about 6 Nepali weddings in the last month and 2 in the last 3 days. After the coupl.e goes through the ceremony the car is decorated and everyone from the wedding walks or rides motorcycles behind them dancing wildly. To top things off in front of the car there is a marching band fitted to the gill in read and white marching band outfits. It sounds more like a really horrible highschool marching band. When I first heard the sound I thought there may be some sort of high school football game going on but then I remembered I was in Nepal and then I saw it with my own eyes. The receptions are great with drums and lots of dancing and of course alcohol. I have been straight booging down with the Nepalese. Great food also.

Last week I was introduced to the very best festival/holiday on earth called Holi. The whole city of over a million rub paint/color and throw water baloons with color and paint inside. I was under fire all day. From roof tops to huge masses of people sometimes 50 crowding around me and absolutely covering me from head to foot in color and water. All you could see were the white of my teeth and the blue in my eyes. God it was great. I packed a whole arsenal of water, baloons and color in a backpack that could take out 1/2 of Kathmandu and faught back with as just as much vigor. Its all in fun with lots of hugs but it can turn into war. It was really fun. Because I was the only white guy walking the streets I especially got super hammered. At the end of the day I could not take anymore holi but my merciful crys had no affect on my continued punishment of Lola!! My hair and shoes are still dyed red right now.

3 days ago I sat on a Nepalese film shoot with my friend Prawin in a Nepalese park. He is a screen writer. They had a really expensive camera (same type of camera that was used to shoot slum dog) but the rest was super hilarious. It was an action film and the main Hero would do round house kicks into huge piles of leaves and a big bed so he would not get hurt. They had one little trampolin rigged up with some bungees and a steel plate in the middle. The actual martial artists though were really good and seriously took a beating during the shoot and got paid nothing. It was a good time. I talked the catering crew to hook me up with some tea. The hero would also do takes where all he does is flip is hair back and growl at the camera ha ha ha god it was funny.

Besides that I am currently working on trying to get into colleges to go back and study and am also looking into teaching in South Korea if the pay is good enough. Oh yeah and always chasing women. Even in a conservative society like this. The women here are very beautiful and very friendly. They cannot always leave there homes after 6 p.m. but there are ways around that. What can I say? doing it while I can!!

My visa expires on April 1st and my plan is to still go down through India and fly out from Dehli hopefully still having the funds to get to Egypt and hang out with my friend Tako. If that falls through…….who knows?!!! Take care readers, family and friends I will be seeing you soon!!!!!!!!!!

Love you

Camen

Comments (2)