Sorry for the writing but the internet does not have the capacity for photos. So what's happened since the last post:
* rainy weather in the dry season
* saw black neck cranes in Gangtey
* 24 mile downhill (Bob almost bought the farm on this one)
* 24 mile uphill
* had a 'session' with a 7 year old lama...we were all fascinated
* visited several Dzongs (forts)
* visited the art school in Thimphu
A hightlight of or day yesterday was meeting Dr. Tashi Zangmo, Executive Director of the Bhutan Nuns Foundation and officially making our donation of $1200 to help restore the Kila Goenpa nunnery. She was thrilled and quite emotional about the fact that several people in remote Nashville Tennessee donated money for one of her nunneries. We met in the afternoon at the painting school and then she stopped by our hotel last night with a handwritten note for all of you who donated. I will forward it to you when we get home. We talked for a couple of hours about her life story, which is amazing, and her advocacy for the 26 nunneries in Bhutan which are so often overlooked. One of her projects is to build a small library in a couple of them, and she has acquired land for a central resource center for the nuns, something the monks have had for generations. She is really an amazing woman, and thanks to Linda Leaming for arranging an introduction.
We also had a shopping frenzy going on yesterday in Thimpu. For better or worse, Bob and I became kindred spirits with our shopping mania, going from store to store all afternoon and buying some wonderful items, including two of the giant horns for the Coffey/Griffin house! Marie will probably never allow Bob and I to shop together again!
* rainy weather in the dry season
* saw black neck cranes in Gangtey
* 24 mile downhill (Bob almost bought the farm on this one)
* 24 mile uphill
* had a 'session' with a 7 year old lama...we were all fascinated
* visited several Dzongs (forts)
* visited the art school in Thimphu
A hightlight of or day yesterday was meeting Dr. Tashi Zangmo, Executive Director of the Bhutan Nuns Foundation and officially making our donation of $1200 to help restore the Kila Goenpa nunnery. She was thrilled and quite emotional about the fact that several people in remote Nashville Tennessee donated money for one of her nunneries. We met in the afternoon at the painting school and then she stopped by our hotel last night with a handwritten note for all of you who donated. I will forward it to you when we get home. We talked for a couple of hours about her life story, which is amazing, and her advocacy for the 26 nunneries in Bhutan which are so often overlooked. One of her projects is to build a small library in a couple of them, and she has acquired land for a central resource center for the nuns, something the monks have had for generations. She is really an amazing woman, and thanks to Linda Leaming for arranging an introduction.
We also had a shopping frenzy going on yesterday in Thimpu. For better or worse, Bob and I became kindred spirits with our shopping mania, going from store to store all afternoon and buying some wonderful items, including two of the giant horns for the Coffey/Griffin house! Marie will probably never allow Bob and I to shop together again!
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