er they will complementing the great services rendered by volunteer Cherry Hills (right), who has been running drama workshops at the refuge most weekends since last April. Cherry has been on gap year but after her time with us plans to work in youth theatre when she goes back to UK in September. As for Hetauda, the three volunteers will be going there on Sunday along with a fourth volunteer and two of my mosaic studio girls to run combined mosaic and drama classes. The whole effort will be geared to our laying on a performance on the 6th September, this being national anti-trafficking day in Nepal. Previous volunteers in Hetauda, Lynne Rawlings et al, were captivated by a playlet that the girls in Hetauda spontaneously laid on of their time in the circus. I think with a professional input from Nick, Sue and Cherry that can be turned into something really great.One of the advantages of volunteers such as these is that it stimulates creativity, something that seems to be lacking in a rote-learning, copycat culture such as this one. Just this evening I read a review in the paper of a guy called Shankar Lamichane - "one of Nepal's greatest ever essayists". After a few paragraphs describing his unique and original style it said that his critics had accused him of plagiarism and he had admitted it....
