My Experience in Nepal: The Kick-Off

Hello everyone! Do you remember me? I’m the blogger that portrays myself as a chonky corgo; Nova! I haven’t posted in a long time (because I forgot and also because I am lazy and blah blah my brain is a duck). But as I am writing this blog, I am in the place where:

1.       The country’s flag is the only one that is not a rectangle.

2.       Many of my relatives live.

3.       It is illegal to eat beef (I mean cows moo moo) and

4.       MUNT EVRUST

In other words, I’m in NEPAL (which is a small country in the Himalayas)! The scenery is beautiful, the people are nice, and there are many stray dogs (there are also the occasional but rare stray cats, which are just adorable wittle shmookypoos). Also there are many bugs and parasites. The parasites were a little more significant, which we will talk about probably right now; because this week I am talking about the most significant parts of the trip (prior to July 8, 2023) in Nepal, some good, some bad, and some that are just “I have no idea”. Soooo… LET’S GET STARTED!

For the first experience, the time was early in the trip. We just arrived in Nepal and were staying with our relatives in apparently our house in Nepal (which had an adorable cockroach I named Fred and I miss him) and we reunited with my sister and my mom (yaaayyy)! After hanging out for a little while, I stayed with my mom and my sister (another blogger; Abby) at a hotel. What I wanted to point out at this moment is that every night in Katmandu (where we were at the time) has a good chance of rain in the area, so many creatures come out once the weather is moist. MOIST MOIST MOIST. At the end of the second day staying at the hotel (we left, we were heading out for dinner. But then my mom then warned us “Don’t step on that snail there!” and both of my eyes were on the snail. It was love at first sight, and since I didn’t want him to get hurt, I picked the mollusk by its shell and put him in some grass to keep him from getting trampled on.

This “snail rescue” like routine would happen two more times, ending with me picking the snail up and releasing it back into the wild. However, not all the animals visiting our hotel rooms were not even close to snails, however. There was one night where I was playing on my Nintendo, while reading my beloved D&D Monster Manual between stops. When suddenly, my mom looked out the window and instantly opened it to take videos. She then spoke and told us to come here, which we follow her order and see an adorable stray cat. We heard its meows, recorded it, and overall the cat was super chill, due to it not hissing at us. All it did was sit and meow. It was a wonderful evening and I already miss that cat.

Nepal is usually a relaxing place, but again only usually. There are some times where the moments are really chaotic in our time in Nepal. One example of this was only two days ago (prior to the time I am writing this duh), where my entire family was staying in a hotel where it had a hiking path that led through the woods. The guide (my parents included) warned us about how there were leeches on the path. If you do not know what a leech is, basically a leech is a slug-like parasite that feasts on an animal’s blood. They live in Europe, but they also live in Asia as well. Anyway, we hiked the path, and after we did, we checked our shoes for leeches. And guess who was the only one to get a leech on them? My aunt!

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Fine, I got one on me too.

So, what basically happened was that at some point on the trail, a leech somehow slipped through my shoe, went to my sock, and started drinking my blood from there. My dad took off the sock that had the leech sucking my blood out of my foot and it wasn’t painful at all (the wound’s still there though)! Even though the wound bled a lot, the pain was very tolerable. Leeches usually get a lot of hate and fear, but, they aren’t be that bad! Mosquitos are obviously worse.

An experience that I hated and I thought was worse than leeches was the Bat Cave in Nepal. Overall, it is a cave that serves as a preserve for bats in Nepal. My family went in the cave (after going through many of them already, due to the moistness in caves and it was super hot and yakyakyakayakyak) and we had a hard time getting out. I was so scared, because usually in places, they have a staircase to the exit. This places had no staircase to the exit, which

1.       You had to climb up the wall to get to the exit and if that couldn’t be worse

2.       The cave was very damp and wet, which made it easier to slip and break your neck

I couldn’t describe the rest of the experience and why I was terrified (maybe because I was completely sure that one of us would get badly injured in there), but I did end up resentful for my family for taking us there. In the end, I let myself cry into my parent’s arms.

OKAY, ENOUGH SADDY SAD GOOD BAH

= Nova S