Hello All,

The two men with the chebrungs play. They pound their Subbah drums to a peculiar, particular beat… their feet follow the leading of their hands. They dance to say thank you. They say thank you because they are happy. They are happy because a bridge of cement, wire and bamboo spans a river that will soon swell with monsoon rains. They are happy because their own khukuris cut the bamboo. They are happy that the village children no longer face danger en-route to school. They are happy because they now have five new Nepali friends and eleven foreign ones. It has been a hard week of work but now they play and beckon us to join them.

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