Accountant Adventures: Plans

Riding a "Scootie"

Plans

I’ve made some decisions on what to do the next few days I am heading to Delhi, India on July 19th and then we are going to Agra, India (Taj Mahal) on the 20th and I am flying to Morocco through Abu Dhabi on the 21st. My friend from Truman has been there for the last month teaching English and I am going to meet up with her and travel around Morocco for a little while.

The Friday nights in Katmandu are supposed to be amazing, so we specifically stayed in Katmandu for Friday to be able to experience it. Praj, Bunu and I found a place, near where are the bars are, that had free wifi and two for one drink specials. Bunu’s friends came to join us and we were quickly a group of seven. Then we met up with Samrat, Anjil and four more of their friends for dinner at an amazing Korean barbecue place. If you think you know barbecue and how to cook it, or what is the best, you are wrong, dead wrong, this Korean barbecue was incredible and so delicious and flavorful. If you have not had Korean barbecue, you must try it. I cannot guarantee that it will be as amazing as the Korean barbecue I ate, but even if it’s half as good it will still probably be the best barbecue of your life. The restaurant is a mix of a club and a restaurant and we were seated on couches and arm chairs with small tables in the middle to put your plates on. I loaded up my plate with rice and barbecue and promptly knocked the plate off the table and onto the floor. I was devastated, I wanted to keep eating the pork. So much in fact that I picked a piece up off my foot and ate it anyway. Luckily Samrat was able to get me another plate of barbeque fast enough to prevent me from throwing a temper tantrum right there in the restaurant.

Then we went around to a couple of different bars looking for some good music and a fun crowd, but we couldn’t really find any places and at a certain time, something like 11pm, they shut all the bars and don’t let new people come in, they only let people leave. We were able to find a dance club and were able to use Praj and my foreignness to get us in and for free. They were filming an MTV “True Life” episode about the DJ, DJ Rahul who was playing the music and the episode is supposed to air in America in mid August. I was standing where DJ Rahul walked out when the camera’s followed him, so I might be on TV, if they show any of it, I will be the tall white guy. The club, like I am learning all clubs to be in this part of the world are 95% men and 5 % women. Ever since Goa, I promised myself that I would just get out there regardless of the guy to girl ratio and so we did. We had an amazing time sweating and singing and dancing. It was so loud in there that I was still partially deaf the next morning.

There were a couple of scuffles that broke out and security quickly took care of them. I suppose that’s what happens when one straight man comes between two other straight men bumping and grinding on each other.

Saturday night we met up with one of Praj’s friends who owns a restaurant and went to her restaurant with her. She is still in the process of opening it and so it’s not open to the public and it isn’t completely finished. It worked for us, it was an entire restaurant to ourselves and the food was really good, we had Indian, Nepali, Mexican and Italian. It was by far the best Mexican and Italian type food that I have had in this part of the world and I was thoroughly impressed.