Anyone who needs a lot of personal space should opt for a taxi rather than taking the bus!
The Rato Bangala school was probably the most interesting. It's a very fancy private school that we visited in Kathmandu, and it was nicer than many of the schools in America! It has 960 students from pre-school to grade 12 on different floors and in different buildings. The students made amazing projects, and I admired how closely their art projects went with what they were currently learning in history. For example, they made large decorative dragon heads when learning about Chinese culture. The school's main teaching medium is English, but all students are required to speak both English and Nepali. One of the makerspaces had a teched-out dress that the teachers made; it had pressure sensors on it that causes LEDs in the dress to change colors as the surrounding pressure changes. Outside, they also had a beautiful mural that the 9th grade girls made for a competition speaking against domestic violence, and they won an award for it! When we visited the pre-school area, all the kids were down for their naps. There were cute posters about earthworms because the class has pet earthworms!
One of the co-founders of that school, Milan Dixit, gave us a lecture about the current status of education in Nepal and is the one who gave us a tour of the school. The school's first building was actually her old home! And she's since moved out to a nearby home and built more buildings in the surrounding area. Her husband, Kunda Dixit, has also given us three different lectures! Both of them are amazing people.
