Just before Christmas all the Development Workers were called in to the country office in Kathmandu for first aid training. During three intensive days we trained on each others, or dummies, to find out what's wrong, to give mouth to mouth, apply bandages on wounds or fractures, to carry each other on back boards etc. To the left Rupa is performing DRABC (Danger, Response, Airways, Breathing, Circulation) to secure that Karen is OK, and to the right Nanna with is trying to help Little Anne to breath on her (his?) own.

This occasion was also the first time since all the new development workers came to Nepal that we were all in Kathmandu at the same time. Since a Danish chef just recently opened a restaurant not far from our office/guest house, this created a golden opportunity for a Julefrokost! In the middle of Kathmandu we had a very Danish Christmas party with dishes like Pork steak, Duck, liver pate, and the best red cabbage I ever tried etc etc. And of course some snaps. As soon as Anne comes back home from Denmark were she's celebrating Christmas I'll post pictures, I relied on her camera that night...









And, of course there is no Christmas without a Christmas punch at the office. After feasting on a buffet of the most delicious Thai food, worked perfect also for Christmas, we played some games and then came main event of the party, the Pakkeleg. Pakkeleg is a Danish tradition where everybody brings some small gifts which are all put in the middle. After dividing the gifts by taking turns with dices, the game goes on for a while and in stead of taking from the middle, you steal gifts from each others. Lots of fun, and extremely popular among the Nepali staff. To the right, Husna Banu, my programme officer at MS, is carefully choosing a gift after being lucky with the dices...