v8 Chapter 37： Need a guide

South Asia, Nepal, Kathmandu.

As the capital of Nepal, Kathmandu is not very prosperous. As the world's poorest country, Nepal's capital will not be more prosperous than any third- or fourth-tier cities in China.

And even in the capital, there are still frequent power outages because of the lack of energy except for a few places such as hospitals where power must be guaranteed, and power outages in other places are commonplace. Even hospitals often have blackouts.

Because Nepal itself does not produce any energy, whether it is oil or coal, it depends on imports. There are several hydroelectric power plants in the country, but it is only a lot of money.

Nepal, strangled by India all year round, has a hard time. Nepal relies on two big countries, one is India and the other is China.

India annexed two countries, Sikkim and Manipur, in the 1970s. In fact, India is also eager to move towards Nepal.

Nepal has thought of relying on China, but there is a Himalaya in the middle, the roof of the world is not so easy to cross, and Nepal has no estuary. The places on land suitable for bordering with the outside world are basically the sphere of influence of India.

This has kept Nepal's situation awkward. Want to get rid of India's control, but in terms of materials and resources can not do without India's support. In addition, Nepal itself is too poor, and the people are poor.

Several states in India have opened work permits for Nepalese. Although working in India, most Nepalese can do the work of moving mountains (moving mountains, because the Indian states close to Nepal are mountain states and Nepal Almost. It ’s more like the mountain club in Chongqing in the early years.)

Moving two barrels of 75-kilogram oil barrels on a three-kilometer mountain road can earn less than three hundred rupees (about 31 yuan).

However, there are still countless Nepales going to India for gold digging. Sorry to use the term gold digging is not appropriate. This can only be said to barely maintain life.

Most Nepalese people who do these jobs have a hard time surviving their fifties, and most of them are seriously ill when they are forty. But this job can at least feed a family in Nepal.

If you are lucky, you can save a little money before the age of forty. Maybe you can buy some fields in Nepal. Although the mountains are not suitable for planting, there is always some output, which is much better than death.

So countless people went to work in India, and some people came back alive, bringing back tens of thousands of rupees (thousands of renminbi) every year is the best gift for their families.

In some people, only the corpse was carried back by people from the same country, most of them died in India, and some died from diseases that were tortured by fatigue.

These people can only be buried in haste.

For example, this is the only father of the little Shami Bahadur in this small temple on the outskirts of Kathmandu.

When Bahadur was young, his father went to India to move the mountains. It only took three years. When he came back, he was only carried back by a body with less than 20,000 rupees. Bahadur's mother couldn't bear the blow, and she died of illness in less than a year.

So Bahadur's family, who was only seven years old, was so broken. There are too many children like Bahadur in Nepal, and this country does not have so much money to build an orphanage.

With the exception of a few lucky children, most of the children are wandering in the streets like this, either grow up strong to survive, or die without attention.

Bahadur was a lucky child, and he was taken in by the old monk in this temple.

There is no starvation on the street, and I can be a little shami. Although sometimes hungry, I can at least survive. This made him feel very lucky.

And now he feels more lucky in his life, because there is a teacher in the temple. Rubus Banner.

Not only did he have outstanding medical skills, he used reliable medical knowledge to heal the sick villagers in the surrounding villages, so that the originally incense-burning temples began to have a lot of worship.

More dedication means that you do n’t need to be hungry anymore, Bahadur is very happy.

But the happier teacher Baner is not only willing to treat everyone, but also willing to teach himself and other children.

As a country where 80% of the population is illiterate, it is a luxury to learn. Especially Dr. Banner is willing to teach everyone English.

Don't underestimate the role of English in Nepal, as a country with tourism as its national pillar. Because of the southern foothills of the Himalayas, there are many mountaineers coming here every year.

Most of them are Europeans and Americans. Fluent English is a decent job whether it is to be a tourist guide or as a buddy in a mountaineering supplies store.

Can get an unimaginable high salary, English-speaking folks can get more than six thousand rupees (less than 700 yuan) monthly salary in mountaineering supplies stores or hotels!

If you are fluent in English and you are good at speaking, you can become a tour guide. You can even become a mountain guide for mountaineers after you have mastered climbing skills.

An excellent mountain guide can earn several million rupees (hundreds of thousands of RMB) a year. This is the highest paid job in Nepal.

Bahadur's dream is to become a mountain guide. He wants to make a lot of money. Because the old monk is old, Bahadur wants to make money to take the old monk to live in his home.

If the old monk is not willing to go, then he will spend a lot of money every year to help the temple.

Bahadur is a determined and persevering child. He and Dr. Banner learn English in only one year, but he is very easy to learn.

Compared with Buddhist scriptures, he cares more about English textbooks. He didn't want to be a monk, but he wanted to repay the old monk's kindness. The old monk also did not force Bahadur.

Therefore, apart from the daily morning classes, Bahadur spends more time holding English textbooks than Buddhism.

For these people at the bottom, a foreign language may be the step to change the whole life. It's just that knowledge is more expensive in poorer countries. Not everyone has the opportunity to receive formal education, especially a good teacher like Dr. Banner is hard to find.

Although Bahadur's spelling is completely irrelevant, he has mastered a considerable amount of oral communication skills, which he learned during his daily communication with Dr. Banner.

Today is the first time Bahadur has come to Kathmandu by himself. He wants to do something. He is 13 years old this year, and the 13-year-old boy in other families is already an adult. Need to go out to work to help reduce the burden.

Although the cost of temples can be supported now ~ www.novelhall.com ~, Bahadur still wants to help his teacher and old monk. For example, go to Kathmandu as a guide for foreign tourists. As a little shami, he is naturally more likely to gain the trust of European and American tourists than those slick adults.

If you take a guest to visit Kathmandu, you can also get a tip, which is what he observed from other tour guides.

For example, now he is standing at a tourist attraction in Kathmandu to observe his potential customers.

Bahadur's eyes suddenly lighted up, and a team of three appeared in front of him.

A sturdy white man, a fat white man, and a man of mixed Asian and American looks on the street as if looking for something.

Bahadur immediately ran forward, he needed to contact these tourists faster than other adults to be able to conclude this business.

He flexibly traversed the crowd, and soon approached the three, and said in a fairly fluent English: "Gentlemen, do you need a tour guide?".

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