Boring for children

Every morning at 7.30 I have to rush up to the road with the garbage as the garbage tractor rolls by. Then to the milk let-out where they sell pasteurized milk in half litre plastic bags. Got the keys to the settlement office's old file cabinet today so I could get started with the scanning work. The household interviews are working well. Yesterday was another Tibetan holiday. We didn't do much except for a shopping round in Kushalnagar. Bought an emergency light since the afternoon power cut now extends well into the evenings. The weather has been rainy again and the children are bored. What can you expect when we are staying in a place with 3 000 monks? Their food is pretty boring too- noodles, potatoes and rice with nuts, cucumber and carrots. Esbjorn survives on semolina porridge. I'm not sure what we can do about it. At least Tenzin gets along well with them. He's a great guy. Yesterday he bought them some toys that they immediately started to fight about. I went to the Tibetan school today and we can make a visit there after July 17. We are thinking about a vacation on the opposite side of India, Tamil Nadu south of Chennai. There is much less rain there this time of year. It feels more like Sri Lanka than India.