Also! Did you know?

[underwaterrhymes]

That not all time zones are in increments of hours?

I had no idea. Nepal is 9:45 minutes ahead of the East Cost of the US. I thought every time zone was in increments of hours. This really blew my mind.

[angelaa73]

yes, remember like 3 years ago when we talked about this

[ErinExpat]

Holy shit! I had no idea.

I used to get confused calculating the difference, like to call my parents, things like that. Now it's an even 12 (day = night and vice versa)

[stupidcrafts]

In Canada, Newfoundland is 30 minutes ahead.

[MWOS]

I learned something today!

[dcannie]

look at my avatar and that is the face i am making.
huh. that is weird.

[margotmacomber]

iiiinteresting.

[sterl724]

I never knew this either. My mind = blown.

[coffeeismyfrienemy]

I had no idea either. Although if i was trying to figure out the time in Nepal, I would just do it by 10 hours. I'm ok with being 15 minutes off.

[bonquiqui]

May 12, 2012 10:15:00 GMT -5 MWOS said:

I learned something today!

I kid you not this flashed before my eyes. Lol. Same wavelength like whoa

[underwaterrhymes]

quesera - Doing well! Kathmandu is a GREAT city. Everyone here is really nice. It's an interesting (if inconvenient) time to be here.

[underwaterrhymes]

They're having bandhs every day (which are basically political protests). It's fascinating how these things get communicated. It's all word of mouth and pretty much I go down in the morning and ask, "Is there a bandh today?" and they say "Yeah," and I say, "Okay! Thanks!" because really that's all you can do. It means no traffic on the roads and stores / shops are closed and if you don't obey, it can get ugly. Usually by dusk the bandhs end and everything opens again.

As tourists we're pretty safe, but it's definitely reminding us daily of the importance of being flexible.

But it's overall really quite an amazing place. There aren't any people that I've seen so far hawking anything and no children begging that I've seen, which is always really hard for me. Although my coworker did get offered a Nepali woman the other night. He pointed to my coworker and me and said he already had two girlfriends. Haa.