Kumar is one of the sample makers I work with at NLT - its a great process: I will bring the designs and patterns, and we work together to find the best way to make each product with the factory's technical skills - I always learn a new technique or find some tool that I have not used before, so its definately a two way process!
When my sister, Elspeth, came to Nepal with me last winter, she distinctly remembers Kumar whose first words to her were "I am Kumar, I like meat" - very bizarre, but we were being taken for lunch at the time, and his English was a bit stilted at the time....Anyway, we went to his house to meet his family and they were so welcoming and hospitable. I havent managed to visit since, until this week, when I went for lunch after work (Friday is a half day). His wife had prepared all the bits of food that Kumar knew I liked from lunches at the factory - roti, pickle, potato curry as well as this fab rice pudding stuff - a right feast!
This time, I got to meet his daughter Alina, who was away last time I visited. She studies Humanities at the local college and I had good conversation with her! She had bought me an amazing gift of this plastic silver/gold photoframe with roses all over it - she was well happy when i told her how good the present was because my middle name (and mother's maiden name) is rose, so it was very appropriate! Though I did have a bit of a paparazzi moment, when she was taking my photo on her phone, of me with my mouth full of all the tasty food
Oh and the first picture of me and the family.....I promise they were happy to hang out with me, despite the solemn faces - it seems to be a Nepali habit to take very serious poses for photos!
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