national clean up day...

At the morning assembly last Saturday , the principal announced that classes were going to be cancelled, and that instead all students were going to participate in national clean up day..

Only in Peru have I before seen somone sweep dirt!



The girls I worked with were great - they even took me to their dorms afterwards (we were cleaning around outside) and I got to see their tiny rooms. Enrollment by women is way up this year, so they´ve had to put 3 students into rooms for 2 people. Let me tell you, those beds are narrow for two!

In the afternoon, it was WELCOME THE FIRST YEARS.. (a celebration put on by the third years)

The entertainment consisted of many dances by different groups of students, and an impromptu speech by yours truly! You’ve got to love being the only foreigner – you never know when you’re going to be called upon to make a fool of yourself. I joked that since several students had told me it was “soooooooo Sad Madam that you are not married” that if they had any older brothers or cousins to bring them on by…

Most of the dances are more modernized (Baliwood style) traditional Bhutanese group dances, but there were a couple who did their own thing…

The coolest thing was that before the big buffet dinner (lots of chilies!), instead of grace being said, a group of us were asked to dance the traditional thanksgiving song..