The priests decide who becomes a Kumari, and make the choice based on a girl's age, horoscopeand physical attributes At 1 p.m. lessons start. I have three teachers who come to the house My brothers
go to the local school, but I am not allowed to leave the house, except on one of the 19 annual festival days
Then, as Taleju, I am carried through the streets in a palanquin to be present all the ceremonies I cannot
talk to anyone; I can only watch the rites in the temple,
I never think about going outside. I think if I were to sneak out to buy sweets or anything like that,
should feel sick - it's not how a Kumari behaves If I did something a goddess should not do, who knows
what impact it could have on the Nepali people?
When another local girl takes over from me as Kuman, I'd like to go on to college and study
accountancy. I believe that if you study hard, you can do anything in life.
My lessons finish at 7, and at 8 we have our evening meal, which is the same as the morning's am
allowed to eat with my family, but my food has to be prepared separately, in special dishes that have to be
ritually cleaned
In the evening watch television or go on the computer - have a Hotmail account - and hang out
with my brothers So I suppose that for an hour or so I'm a normal teenager. But because of my duties
have always been too busy to play, so I don't have any of my own friends
I can't really begin to imagine what my life will be like when I am able to go outside with my brothers
and to college. Right now I am just living from day to day and because I'm always with my family, whom |
love, I enjoy that go to bed at 10, in my own room which has a small wooden bed. I never dream

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