{"id":2770,"date":"2018-07-21T00:18:21","date_gmt":"2018-07-21T04:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/?p=2770"},"modified":"2018-07-21T09:30:03","modified_gmt":"2018-07-21T13:30:03","slug":"midterm-break-hills-and-himals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/2018\/07\/21\/midterm-break-hills-and-himals\/","title":{"rendered":"Midterm Break, Hills, and Himals"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The clouds cleared for just an hour or so so we could see the snow topped mountains<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Time is going faster than I can even keep up with – this is the end of the 5th week, with only three more left! After our midterm exams, we had a four day weekend holiday – two of which I spent on a field trip to Nagarkot – a little get-away from Kathmandu where one can see the mountains even in the monsoon season (if they’re lucky – which we were!).<\/p>\n

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The hills around Kathmandu – seen here behind Boudha stupa – are not mountains (\u0939\u093f\u092e\u093e\u0932) but hills (\u092a\u0939\u093e\u0921).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here in Nepal, I’ve been corrected numerous times for saying how pretty the ‘mountains’ (\u0939\u093f\u092e\u093e\u0932) were around Boudha. The problem is, in a country with 8 of the 14 tallest mountains (the 8,000-ers, which includes Sagarmaathaa [\u0938\u0917\u0930\u092e\u093e\u0925\u093e], also known as Everest), ‘mountain’ very specifically means a mountain with snow on the top year around. A ‘mountain’ without snow is actually a pahaaD (\u092a\u0939\u093e\u0921).<\/p>\n

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Excited for the himals!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This language differentiation makes perfect sense (even if I probably will still continue to call the little mountain-hills I normally hike on back at home ‘mountains’), and when one sees the majestic snow caps, one can really see how different the\u00a0\u092a\u0939\u093e\u0921\u0939\u093e\u0930\u0941 and \u0939\u093f\u092e\u093e\u0932\u0939\u093e\u0930\u0941 are. In Nagarkot, we were so lucky that the monsoon rains and mist cleared for a moment to see the snow tops. They were so white, it almost gave us headaches gazing at them for too long. We were so happy – calling to everyone still inside to come share the view with us.<\/p>\n

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On the way home to Kathmandu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Even when the mountains weren’t out, the break was great – I feel the few days just to breath fresh air and wander around really helped the language sink in. It’s almost scary to think of how little time we have left to learn so much more. Luckily, everyone here is so helpful and I’ve found a language partner back in South Bend who agreed to help me over the next school year. I’m already thinking of all the things I’m going to miss in this city and program, but hopefully I’ll be back soon for research – and with a new language skill at that!<\/p>\n

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Time is going faster than I can even keep up with – this is the end of the 5th week, with only three more left! After our midterm exams, we had a four day weekend holiday – two of which I spent on a field trip to Nagarkot – a little get-away from Kathmandu where … Continue reading Midterm Break, Hills, and Himals<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3028,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[126590,290963],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nepal","category-sla-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2770"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2797,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2770\/revisions\/2797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}