Life at the Tibetan Children's Village College

Tuesday, January 17, 4 am

As you can see by this post and the one below, I have been waking up a bit early.  Adapting to the daily schedule here in India will likely take some time.  We had a brief power outage last night and still do not have any hot water for showers.  Bryce has said that they are trying to set up a wireless router in a classroom so we can access the Internet.  I have been typing these blog posts in WORD and plan to post them when we finally get Internet access.

The day starts at 6:30 am when we wake up.  Breakfast is served at 7 am downstairs in the building where we sleep.  The program has hired a cook to prepare our breakfast and dinner.  We eat lunch in the main college eating area (photo on right), but the only thing served in that area is rice and dal.  Dal is made from cooked lentils and it tastes fine, but I am not sure how well I would do on a two week, breakfast-lunch-dinner diet of rice and dal.  So far, our special program cook has been able to prepare a good variety of food.

My daughter Kelly hopes to go into town with several of the translators to help them shop for supplies.  I have told Kelly to stay close to them and not wander away from them.  I’ll give her a phone number in case of emergency.  The Tibetan Children’s Village College is not located near any stores, so cars must be used to buy food and other materials.  It should be a great experience for Kelly and maybe she can find a replacement for our poor little hot pot.