Back in Contact

WOW! We are back in Kathmandu. It was a long time without Internet/phone contact.

Clicker training in the Himalayas was sooo much fun! Conditions for the humans were a little difficult but we got used to them fairly quickly.

Dog lovers are the same everywhere however.

Although the dog training was nothing like I had envisioned, I feel like we accomplished a lot.

Starting with TagTeach was a good move. Language barriers are not an issue then. And language barriers were a huge problem. Although we had communicated by email in English, spoken English was a different matter. The program director is Dutch and the only other foreigner was German. Apparently my American accent was not readily understood by anyone. I was grateful that I had spent time studying Nepali. By the end of our time dog training, all the Nepali handlers were mimicking how I say "Good job!" all the time. A good thing to mimic.

Click/Khanne is now a part of 6 dog handler's life.

We fly out off Kathmandu this afternoon and have a long layover in Seoul. I will post about the clicker training specifics then. Along with great pictures of playing "Connect the dots" along a river in the Himalayas. That is something I will remember all my life!

Send positive thoughts our way please. We need to get out of Kathmandu in a timely matter. The Chinese Maoist have scheduled a "stoppage" in Kathmandu on Sunday. Apparently this is a public protest where the international airport is closed-period. The Embassy is warning Americans to avoid all protests. They are not evacuating American (or any foreigner). But, I am grateful to be out of here before the "stoppage".

I will contact you all from Korea tomorrow.

Thanks for best wishes

Lynn