Summers 2010 at Druk white lotus shey, ladakh

The most amazing summers I had in my life. Always wanted to go to ladakh, so the summers of 2010 gave me an opportunity to fulfill my long awaited desire. But I never thought of interning in a school and live with a ladakhi family for a month. The school, the principal, teachers and most importantly students made the whole experience even more wonderful. The always smiling innocent faces ( turned red coz of sun burns) and the simple living of the people is the most attractive feature of ladakhi culture. You can just feel the purity and warmth in the air ( and the chill during the night :P ). Must visit place in one's life time.

As we all know about the cloudburst in the leh. The schools of ladakh also have faced the brunt of nature's fury. In case you want to help druk white lotus school in particular, please log on to www.dwls.org for further details.

School Library...

Today I took my students to their first library period and it was a great experience to see them more interested in reading the books rather than looking here and there. The shear happiness to come out of the classroom and going to a special room and to read new books was quite evident from their beaming eyes. Also they discussed about importance of books afterwards. So few advantages which they shared were: books gives information, knowledge( finally they started using these so called big words). They help us to score good marks and learn. Most funny or rather deep was from Abbas ( the critical thinker of the classroom)

"Bhaiya, we should take care of the books." I replied why Abbas? He said,"Bhaiya when we grow old and want a job, the company will take a test. So if we tear our books or lose them, we will not read from them and will score 0 in marks and not get the job.