This is my second day working on my blog. Not only was it slow yesterday getting pictures up, but then about 6pm the power went out for a couple hours. When everyone goes home for the evening, of course the TV’s go on, stoves and other electronic stuff gets used. They don’t have enough power here for the whole city, so different sections of town have regularly scheduled outages. Now today, I can’t even get one of my photos to upload to my blog. A guy I met here yesterday told me that there’s an American club near Thamel where the internet is very fast, so I think I might have to make a special trip there once in a while. He said they also have a swimming pool, which definitely sounds inviting. So for now, I’m just going to load up the rest of the text, and leave the photos for a few days from now. The place I’m at is called Café New Orleans. They have some organic items on the menu, and also have a healing spa upstairs in which they offer a whole list of treatments like mani-pedis, facials, body scrubs and wraps, and about ten different types of massage. I had the organic veggie curry last night, and it was great. And by the way, fresh mint in hot water makes a great tea, much better than mint tea from dried leaves. While I was sitting here writing this yesterday, my friend Kelesyn and I talked by internet phone for about a half an hour. We got cut off a couple times, and found that if we didn’t use the video, we could talk without too much interruption. And at that club I mentioned, I would be able to have video chat with no interruptions. I’m saying this to encourage my friends to download Skype so we can have some free talk. Go to http://www.skype.com/download/ and click on "Download Now," then follow the prompts. For those who don’t have the memory power in their computer for phone chat, instant messaging is another alternative. Let me know which service you want to use (yahoo, msn, etc) and I’ll download it. I don't know what my schedule will be once I start school, but we can work that out when that happens. Just email me and let me know you want to chat. If you want to figure out the time difference, now it’s 11pm in S.F., and it’s 11:45am my time, so add 12 hours 45 minutes to your time if you live on the West Coast. Keep tuned to my blog, as I’ll be writing in it pretty often from now on. Definitely email me if you have any questions or comments about what I wrote, or if you have any requests for pictures for me to take and so on.