{"id":373,"date":"2005-03-06T05:54:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-06T05:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mercurystate.wordpress.com\/2005\/03\/06\/sol-statistical-update-darjeeling-india-march-2005\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T17:49:14","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T21:49:14","slug":"sol-statistical-update-darjeeling-india-march-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seekingsol.com\/sol-statistical-update-darjeeling-india-march-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"sol statistical update: Darjeeling, India March 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>sol statistical update: Darjeeling, India March 2005<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cost of my incredible lunch this afternoon of dahl baht, garlic naan, gohbi paratha and palak panner: 80 Rupees<\/p>\n<p>US dollar equivalent of 80 Rupees: $1.84<\/p>\n<p>US dollar value of eating lunch with your fingers: priceless<\/p>\n<p>What never gets burned when you eat with your hands: your tongue<\/p>\n<p>Average # of hours I study Nepali each day: 2.1<\/p>\n<p>My dated goal for being fluent: 2006<\/p>\n<p>How much easier it is to learn your 3rd language than your 1st and 2nd: considerably<\/p>\n<p>How much easier it is to say that than do it: considerably<\/p>\n<p>An extremely ambiguous adverb: considerably<\/p>\n<p>Tenses I\u2019ve learned in Nepali: past tense, present tense, future tense, command &amp; formal\/informal tenses<\/p>\n<p>State of my mind: plain ol\u2019 tense<\/p>\n<p>How often bad puns have to happen: sometimes<\/p>\n<p>When they should really be reserved for: old age, and more specifically, Dad-dom<\/p>\n<p>Categories above to which I belong: neither<\/p>\n<p># of bad puns to come: 0<\/p>\n<p>What you can do: sigh<\/p>\n<p>One of the subjects we are currently studying with the students: karma<\/p>\n<p>What I\u2019ve decided I must have been in a past life to possibly deserve this one: a saint<\/p>\n<p>Who, for me, currently holds saint status in THIS life, and is responsible for the lovely redesign of seekingsol.com: <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.mercuryfrog.com\/');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.mercuryfrog.com\/\" target=\"new\">Merc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To whom I send my gratitude, admiration, support and love: <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.mercuryfrog.com\/');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.mercuryfrog.com\/\" target=\"new\">Merc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Status of chin on how I\u2019ll ever be able to adequately repay such altruistic favors: still scratching<\/p>\n<p># of pairs of socks I\u2019m currently wearing: 3<\/p>\n<p># of pairs of socks I brought with me: 4<\/p>\n<p># of days it takes for socks to dry on a clothesline without sun: 3<\/p>\n<p>Who likes to believe that cold weather kills funk: me<\/p>\n<p>Who might beg to disagree: my 2 co-leaders and 9 students<\/p>\n<p>How many times I\u2019ve explained the squat toilet procedure to our students: 3<\/p>\n<p>My favorite \u201cthink-of-it-this-way\u201d description: \u201cit\u2019s like a little bath for your butt\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Percentage that have actually converted from TP to water: 10%<\/p>\n<p>Who you can\u2019t win: them all<\/p>\n<p>What time we all got up to watch the sunrise over <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/public.fotki.com\/solbeam\/photogalleries\/india05\/img_1076.html');\"  href=\"http:\/\/public.fotki.com\/solbeam\/photogalleries\/india05\/img_1076.html\" target=\"new\">Kachenjunga<\/a> from Tiger Hill: 4:00am<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images7.fotki.com\/v158\/photos\/1\/10428\/1778677\/IMG_1153-vi.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p># of Indian tourists taking pictures of the funny looking white travelers: &gt; greater than the # of Indian tourists taking pictures of the sunrise<\/p>\n<p># of Indian family photo albums that have my smiling and random white face in them: numerous<\/p>\n<p>Our group record (held by Suren) for our \u201cmomo\u201d (delicious Tibetan treats) marathon competition: 56<\/p>\n<p>My personal momo-muching record: 9<\/p>\n<p>My current status: last and losing pathetically<\/p>\n<p>But who came through last year and took first place in a Chai Challenge: the author of this update<\/p>\n<p>Who, I\u2019d like to remind, wins the raise in the end: the tortoise<\/p>\n<p># of cups of Darjeeling tea drunken during the composure of this update: 4<\/p>\n<p>How to say, \u201cwhere is the bathroom\u201d in Nepali: \u201cToilet kahaa cha?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What I\u2019m currently studying and trying to incorporate into my daily living: The Buddhist <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.thebigview.com\/buddhism\/eightfoldpath.html');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.thebigview.com\/buddhism\/eightfoldpath.html\" target=\"new\">Noble 8-Fold Path<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What I\u2019m stumbling on: Right Speech &amp; Right Action<\/p>\n<p>Specifically what I need to stop: Lying (harmlessly?) to my students and stealing their pens.<\/p>\n<p>What one group of my students believed was my middle name for a month: \u201cJellybean\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Who my current group of students sang \u201cHappy Birthday\u201d to today: my co-leader<\/p>\n<p>My co-leader\u2019s birthday: December 28th.<\/p>\n<p>Who has issues with abusing the trust of her students: Um. Me.<\/p>\n<p># of waiters looking over my shoulder reading my journal right now: 1<\/p>\n<p># of days our group will be trekking up the Eastern Nepal-India border (&#8220;<a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.daveontrek.co.uk\/Pages\/Mountains\/Sikkim%20(m)\/Sk-2-trek.htm');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.daveontrek.co.uk\/Pages\/Mountains\/Sikkim%20(m)\/Sk-2-trek.htm\" target=\"new\">Singalila Ridge<\/a>&#8220;) this week: 9<\/p>\n<p># of days I\u2019ll be without internet access during that time: 9<\/p>\n<p>The last time I had 9 days without internet access: <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/public.fotki.com\/solbeam\/photogalleries\/india\/page9.html');\"  href=\"http:\/\/public.fotki.com\/solbeam\/photogalleries\/india\/page9.html\" target=\"new\">the last time I went trekking for 9 days in the Himalayas<\/a><\/p>\n<p># of snake charmers I ran into on the street today: 2<\/p>\n<p># of opportunities one usually has to say that in a life time: not enough!<\/p>\n<p>A story from my travels in India last year that I recently broke down crying about while recounting: \u201c<a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.bootsnall.com\/articles\/05-02\/at-her-feet-varanasi-india.html');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.bootsnall.com\/articles\/05-02\/at-her-feet-varanasi-india.html\" target=\"new\">At Her Feet<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>How much shame I have for crying these days: none<\/p>\n<p>What I\u2019ve realized is worth being embarrassed about in life: nothing<\/p>\n<p>What I think is the biggest key to self-love: self-forgiveness<\/p>\n<p># of sol statistical updates posted since 2000: 6<\/p>\n<p>In what countries and where you can click to read them: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seekingsol.com\/2004\/09\/sol-statistical-update\" target=\"new\">Ecuador<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seekingsol.com\/index.php?content=2002_08_01_archive\" target=\"new\">Thailand<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seekingsol.com\/index.php?content=2002_02_01_archive\">Guatemala<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seekingsol.com\/index.php?content=2001_08_01_archive\" target=\"new\"> Honduras<\/a> and even my first (and so embrassing and thus self-forgiving\/loving) statistical update from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seekingsol.com\/trip_2000\/update.htm\" target=\"new\">Costa Rica<\/a> from five years ago!<\/p>\n<p># of <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/public.fotki.com\/solbeam\/photogalleries\/india05\/');\"  href=\"http:\/\/public.fotki.com\/solbeam\/photogalleries\/india05\/\" target=\"new\">new pictures in the India Album<\/a>: 15<\/p>\n<p>What I just realized was a hint that the caf\u00e9 is now closing and not an attempt to read my journal: the waiter standing over my shoulder!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>sol statistical update: Darjeeling, India March 2005 Cost of my incredible lunch this afternoon of dahl baht, garlic naan, gohbi paratha and palak panner: 80 Rupees US dollar equivalent of 80 Rupees: $1.84 US dollar&#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/seekingsol.com\/sol-statistical-update-darjeeling-india-march-2005\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,17],"tags":[426],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>sol statistical update: Darjeeling, India March 2005 - Christina Rivera<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/seekingsol.com\/sol-statistical-update-darjeeling-india-march-2005\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"sol statistical update: Darjeeling, India March 2005 - Christina Rivera\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"sol statistical update: Darjeeling, India March 2005 Cost of my incredible lunch this afternoon of dahl baht, garlic naan, gohbi paratha and palak panner: 80 Rupees US dollar equivalent of 80 Rupees: $1.84 US dollar... 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