Saturday, August 06, 2005

Comparing home and here

It is a good weekend for me. Tons of things to do for the last week of the second summer session. I am taking Diffusion of Innovation course with Dr. G. Armfield. It is a fascinating topic--much use in the real workd situation.

I talked ot my mother in Nepal. My $5 phone card gave me 14 minutes. That is a remarcable improvement over what used to be back in 1993 when I got here. But I paid $12.00 to a West Texas lady for a haircut--my first since January when I left Arizona. Come to think of it. I never paid more than Rs 10.00 for my haircut in Nepal. That was less than a US$ .25 at that time. It is also one of my favorite stories I tell folks in US. The other one is how much my rent was--about $20.00 for a two bedroom and a kitchen in a nice cement constructed home in Balkhu, Patan.

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