Sanju and her family
Balaju, Kathmandu, 2011

I met Sanju in 2002, when I was teaching the schoolyard game Red Rover to a bunch of children in a fallow rice field in Kathmandu. I was trying to teach how you try to break through the other teams line but, at the same time, not hard enough for them to hurt each other.

That rice field is now covered with a house, the surrounding area being more built up than nine years ago.

On this visit, Sanju's ama made me tea that was piping hot in it's metal cup, and it became a bit of a good-natured running joke upon my visits—the extreme heat of the offered tea, and my seeming inability to cope with such.

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Below, is a set of four photos that I took while I was demonstrating my best Nepali dance moves for Sanju's family. They seemed rather amused at my effort.