Some New Photos

On the left this time, just to mix it up. I'm calling these "new" photos, but most of them are actually rather old. My photo-taking frequency has dropped substantially in the past couple months as hardly anything jumps out at me as strikingly different anymore.

The Swap Day photos do deserve some explanation, though. This was a tradition that started 6 years ago with my roommate at university. With me being an international student at the time,

we felt it was necessary to dedicate a day to the celebration of the vast cultural differences between us. Thus, I would dress up and act (interpret that however you wish) as American as I possibly could, while she would likewise do her best to look Canadian and

go around apologizing to everyone all day ("sorry, sorry, my fault, very sorry!"). Thus, the holiday was born and, as you can see with my nephew, is still going strong today. Just as I did back in the foreign land of the USA, where I would don traditional clothing and of course not leave home without my faithful pet bald eagle upon my shoulder, here in Nepal I happily adopted the traditional local clothing for the day. Pratik, like any typical Canadian, wore his red and white umbrella hat all day, whether indoors or out.