Breakfast in Bangalore

January 15, 2012, Sunday, 2 pm

A driver was waiting at the airport to take Kelly and me to the Royal Orchid Resort and Convention Center Hotel on the outskirts of Bangalore  (photo to right is the view from the hotel balcony).  The hotel provided us with a nice place to catch a few hours of sleep after arriving in India.  We did not arrive at the hotel until 2 am. Unfortunately, the room did not have any hot water, so hopes of a nice warm shower after 24 hours of traveling were dashed.

The director of the Science for Monks program, Bryce Johnson, was staying in the room next to ours.  At about 8:30 am, we met Bryce for breakfast in the hotel restaurant.  The buffet-style breakfast was excellent with a choice of Indian and western foods to choose from.

At 10 am, we loaded our luggage into a car and headed off to the Tibetan Children’s Village College.  The drive took about an hour from the hotel.  We never ventured into the main part of Bangalore; instead we took a ring road around the city.

The Tibetan Children’s Village College is a collection of buildings on a large plot of land.  There are separate buildings for the Science for Monks program staff, college staff, women students and men students.  The cafeteria is located in its own building as are the classrooms.  (Left photo:  view of men's and women's living quarters)

On Sunday evening, we took a short walk through the college and discovered some outside basketball courts where a lively game with kids from the Tibetan college was taking place.  I’ll have to go back during the week and get in a game.