Welcome to Nepal

These pictures are from a cultural program that was put on for us in a Dalit village when we arrived. There was a lot of dancing, speech-making, eating, and saying "namaste" with overflowing handfuls of flowers. Highlights of the day included eating our first meal off of dishes made of leaves and being forced to dance Nepali style. Little did we know that a 1 hour television special was played on a local news channel about us! The next day we were stopped in the streets by people telling us how they watched us eat, dance, and make speeches for an hour.