This morning Ram and I went for a walk to pickup a new belt for the dynamo project. The bicycle frame and tire removal process will have to wait another day, because today is the start of Dipawali! We went out early before the stores shut, and managed to find a belt that was the right size, which is great.
After this, Ram and I headed back to HTP. On the way, I picked up five different kinds of colored powder. I have no practical usage for them, but the colors are amazing and its a part of Nepalese and Indian culture which I find fascinating. I’ll think of something to use them for tomorrow!
As the day drew to an end, the colorful lights turned on and the fireworks started lighting up the sky. Here are some pictures I took. I’m not particularly happy with any of them, but thankfully today is only the beginning — tomorrow is apparently a bigger and better display of fireworks than today. One thing I find interesting is that the government has no official firework display here, and fireworks are illegal — but there are shells going off at least once a second above Kathmandu.
I gave Shyami a hundred rupees for "Coca Cola" (he's been asking all day, which I found odd). He returned with these.
Dear Shyami: you light the fuse, not the tip of the firework. Seriously, that's what happened here.
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That’s all for now.
Charles
I was born in London, England. At the age of ten, I moved to Hong Kong, which opened up a whole new part of the world: Asia. Since then, I have enjoyed traveling to different locales around the world. Having graduated from High School, I am taking a gap year to work on a computer project in Nepal, and later a cultural immersion trip in Ghana. This is the blog I am using to keep the world notified. 
It sounds like Honolulu on New Year’s Eve.