Since the last blog, I saw a rhino! which comes to munch the grass near to where I am working in my office. it crosses the small river in the evening and comes a munchin'. I got some good photo's of it with my nice camera so you'll have to wait to see those. Also we had our first rains last night. we've been having some pretty amazing electrical storms but no rain until it poured and poured v early this morning, so I think its fair to say the monsoon is here.

Those of you who know of my love of football will be delighted to hear that 'my' bar, overlooking the river has now got a tv and everybody crams into this v v rickety building on bamboo stilts and watches the wold cup in the evening, me included! Everybody in nepal is an Argentina fan wierdly enough though I don't suppose the nepalese team made it to the world cup (harsh.)

As for the work, we finished surveying the first of 4 veterinary clinic catchment areas today, so only 3 to go. woo hooo. The next 3 are a bit further away so I think i'm going into rural nepal to stay for a couple of days as its a 3 hour drive to get to the furthest area. I think we're planning tues and wed nights out, then i'll be back to chitwan. (i think it'll be quite basic as the area does not have power!) the rest should be reachable from chitwan with a daily commute through the nepal countryside!

internet is super slow here today, so i only upload one pic. but this is a little friend that we came across on our journey around the countryside!! (he's tame sadly)