Being Clean When Cold
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Being Clean When Cold
Katmandu Nepal Asia
Monday, January 8, 2007
I am not sure this is the life…
I am lying here in bed, all my clothes are on, it is cold and there is no electricity. The city of Katmandu has turned off the lights in this section of the city on Mondays for some reason, everyone says it will come back on at 7:30.
It takes a lot of work to stay comfortable at this time of year in Nepal, the weather is one small notch too cold. It is not cold enough where so that everyone installs furnaces and heats their home, it I just cool enough that for sure you wish you did. Many person can be seen sitting on the roofs of their brick homes during the day, staying warm and soaking in the sun.
I have been debating in my mind about the hands of the street vender selling me popcorn. Their hands are dirty, maybe it is the color of their skin, but 50/50 on this, some have very dirty hands and fingers.
I was watching the movie, - The Aviator - about Howard Hughes. Howard in the movie had this phobia or problem with dirt. I remember his face as he was squeamish to touch the handle of the door. I felt the exact same way as I was watching a man cup popcorn with his hands into the cup to measure my portion. I got this low, deep in the stomach, my arms felt heavy, why do his fingers looks so dirty feeling.
We are just upstream from India, where I feel live some of the dirtiest people on the planet, so there is a cultural influence. However, Nepal is cleaner than India.
I am thinking the cold makes them resist cleaning, it like being in Tibet or China and seeing their hands, but a lot less severe.
So whether their hands are always dirty, or they are just temporarily more dirty because the water is too cold to shower easy is my question.
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- ash said on Wednesday January 10th, 2007 12:05:00 PM
A lot of the popcorn men use rolled up newspaper to hold the popcorn... if he is one of these, then maybe his hands are covered in newspaper ink, it comes off easy.
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