The two German girls waved at me from the electric tuk-tuk that was parked along the way as I walked Thapagaon Path to my guest house. They were in my lecture at St Xavier’s College, and it was nice to be greeted by students from yesterdays lecture… as their tuk-tuk passed we gave each other the namaste sign… such is the power and custom of where I am that even foreigners greet each other in this fashion. It is very civilized, and very sweet form of greeting.

Tomorrow I give a keynote speech “Using Mathematical Modeling as a Pedagogical Tool: Lessons Learned in Brasil” for the International Conference on Teaching of Mathematical Modeling and Applications (ICTMA 13) sponsored by Katmandu University. They are meeting tomorrow in Bhaktapur after breakfast in Narankot (where one goes to see the sunrise over the Himalayas… but, well, it is cloudy and rainy… so we will probably have a nice breakfast, and visualize the view to be appreciated virtually with postcards.

The fotos I am sharing here are of the rice progressing nicely out the window, and of the father (Navaraj) and son (Mohit) who runs the guesthouse. Mohit was getting ready for school. How they keep such uniforms clean in this city is a marvel unto itself!