Mean Bunnies

Amaa after we found the last egg she had hidden! She is so cute!

Aama = Mom in Nepali

Bishi, Sujanna, Sophi, Me, Aama

So I wrote a huge blog on Thursday... I spent an hour filling y'all in on details and details, but alas the awesome Internet service here for some reason only posted my titles. I will try to make this composition as brilliant as the original...

The story: We go to church on Saturdays here, so Easter fell on a regular work day... I told you a little about visiting the refugee community... that was my day. That evening we had a meeting with all the volunteers. It was really great to meet everyone and hear their suggestions and experiences. They are from all over... mostly Canada and the US, but we have one from Germany, Singapore, Czech Republic and a handful of Nepalese volunteers as well. In addition to a farewell/introduction party, we had a meeting regarding how to improve VSN for future volunteers. Rick directed the meeting and even followed up later by disseminating meeting minutes. A lot of interesting things were brought up, which gave me a clearer picture of how VSN works. Rick is the self appointed interim director of VSN... he is doing amazing things, but he runs a tight ship. I sometimes worry that his vision may be a little overwhelming for this infant NGO. They are lucky to have him however. What he is doing in Nepal is very large scale compared to my minor contribution.

After the meeting we went home and I told Aama and the girls that we were going to have an easter egg hunt. I explained that in America a rabbit hides eggs for children to find. "I'll be the rabbit tonight." I told them. G and I hid 10 plastic eggs (I brought from home) in the main room downstairs. Since it is a new idea/concept we were really nice. The eggs were peeking out of things... The girls came in, and within 3 minutes had found everything (I also hid little piles of candy). They were so giddy and cute. Then they decided that they wanted to hide them. They locked G, Rick and I in the kitchen (when I say lock, I mean with a key). 10 minutes later we were released and set free to find 10 bright plastic eggs in a 10 x 8 ft room. ... an hour later we were still looking for the last eggs. They would not let us give up. They had hid them inside light fixtures, zipped up in couch cushions, and other ridiculous places. Bishi had joined them and helped find the most impossible places in the room. We were taking apart furniture... it was crazy fun. The last egg turned out to be in Aama's bun. They were all laughing uncontrollably, and wanted to do it again and again. By the time we had finished our search it was really late... I told them they were mean bunnies.