Man and Meat Eater

Just one more day before we leave Bylakuppe and Mysore for this time. The weather has been good the last few days. It's been hard sometimes but today I felt that I'm comfortable here. We are looking forward to spend some time on the beach but it will be hard to leave Tenzin. A few days ago the children were intrigued by the ghost story. yesterday the same paper carried an article about a man eater, a tiger that is, who has been eating villagers in Nagarhole, a large jungle area on the other side of the fields. The Tibetan settlement more or less on the edge of one of the largest national parks in the world. The best place to see wild animals is Kabini river just south of here, but not during the monsoon. The work I p;lanned to do is almost done. Thinley is still running around Camp 1, trying to link children born before 1974 with their mothers. I just hope I can get a preliminary report together before the Tibetan studies conference starting on 29 August. The last couple of days we have been eating spinach that Tenzin bought fresh out of the field. First as a wrecked pasta sauce and then as a modified Indian Palak Paneer. The kids stuck to their usual diet of plain pasta/rice with ketchup, cucumber and nuts. They speak about meat everyday and Alice has given up her vegetarian ambitions. The big yellow M casts its spell...