Foreigners Enter

                                    

                                          

Early in the morning, most of the villagers were gathered around the dusty road, the only entrance to the village from the nearby town.
After waiting for about an hour, one SUV followed by three jeeps and one truck can be seen sending dust around the road from afar.
Villagers got ready with their garlands and programs that they planned based on the local customs and traditions.
These vehicles slowly approached the village entrance and lined up across the designated open area.
Several people got out of these vehicles, their appearance diverse showing they come from continents of the world. They started unloading their supplies and materials from the truck.
One muscular middle-aged guy got out of the only SUV, in a military-like uniform who appeared to be their leader in charge of co-ordinating the whole adventure camp.
Local people put garlands around this guy and welcomed all these foreigners in their traditional ways with local musical instruments and folk songs. The local children in their school uniforms were entertaining them with dance and music.
Ayan watched all this standing far from the crowd. He was more interested in the vehicles that they came in than the foreign faces. Soon, he lost his interest and started heading home.
One of the foreigners got a little passionate seeing these innocent-looking children and gave him a chocolate bar, a rare delicacy for the village children most of whom have never known about them till now. One foreigner talked with the girls who danced to entertain them and gave them a package of cookies as encouragement.
Seeing this, all the village children started gathering around the foreigner asking for chocolate and food.
Annoyed by this scene, a 20-year-old blonde woman with tight clothes and fair skin came and started scolding her fellow adventurists, warning them in English.
"Don't give them chocolate or food. These poor, illiterate children are not as innocent as they look. Once you give one of them a chocolate, they will gather their whole gang asking for more. Give them an arm and they'll take the whole hand, humph."
"Trust me. I've been through such situations plenty of times. They will definitely annoy you demanding more and more. Also, be extra careful of your belongings now, they might open your bags to steal the chocolates and cookies."
Listening to her, the other foreigners ignored these children and started moving to their campsite.
Some of the older literate teenage boys understood what she said and the village children all got angry with her making faces at her but she ignored them continuing her activities.
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Dawa, the Sherpa boy, came to Ayan's house and asked him to go play with him.
Ayan was very surprised by this as other children always taunted and alienated him when they played together. To avoid the unpleasant experience, these past few years, Ayan spent more time alone on his smartphone and only occasionally played with them which would eventually lead to disagreements in the end.
Ayan left with Dawa after getting permission from his Aunt Tsering who was rather happy with it.
Dawa brought him to a meadow where he could see almost all the small and teenage children had gathered.
As he came near the group, he could feel something big and unusual was going on here—discussions were going on in a heated manner.
"This is too much. That blonde woman is too hateful," one teenager spoke angrily.