Yesterday, we went to a school in a small village near RebGong. It was sad. The playground was a gravel covered, run down, basketball court or you could play around the buildings. Unfortunately there is no play structure, so the only games you can play are games like tag etc. etc. The kids there got bread for lunch, my dad said that's a special treat for them. I tried to get a soda for them from the Principal's 's office but dad said it wasn't mine to give. Since the kids were Tibetan I had to put up with them talking Tibetan all the time. At least it was fun to play with them. ( They were first/second grade).
After a little while we went up to a monastery on top of a hill. That monastery was made with one of my mom's friend's donation. Then we went to yet another house and had more food! Then to yet another house with more and more food! By the time we got home we were loaded with bottles of soda, a bag of cookies, a bucket of sour yogurt, some bread and tsampa flour*.
* tsampa flour: a flour made of roasted barley. Add sugar, butter, hot water or tea and barley flour to a bowl make cookie-dough like tsampa. Once hot water is added you stir it up with clean hands and then you reach in and SCRUNCH it up and scrape it off the sides of the bowl. Once that is done it is ready to eat. You eat tsampa by rolling it up in a ball and you hold it in one hand then bite it!
bye, all!
1 comment:
Children, I love your descriptions and your essays. I know it's been hard to get used to China but you all sound happy and enjoying life there. We missed you at Christmas. It was very quiet here with just Kieran and Braeden and sometimes Aunt Molly and Lizzie,Will and Sara came to play. It snowed seven inches here last night. If you were here you could make a huge snowman. Keep writing your blogs. Love you.
Nai Nai
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