flight to lhasa pretty uneventful… was really feeling out of it in the a.m…. like i could fall asleep at any moment… was nervous for a bit until i realized that instead of taking my altitude sickness med, I’d popped an ambian… whups!…
anyhoo… lines, line, lines… no extra charge for second bag… on the domestic flight… yay... sleep… and... as we were coming in for the landing and watching these amazing peaks envelope us, three really cool songs hit my ipod in a row… "happiness," blue nice; "jig of life," kate bush; and "when I’m gone," ani defranco… i was probably the only one in tears upon touchdown… so happy to be back!!!
anyhow, more forehead scanning… driver there… yay… pretty quite ride (found the tibetan mastiff puppy farm! no, meg, i won’t buy one there!).. passed about a bazillion... ummmm... big green trucks... (you people are smart)... and then onto the hotel…
yes… the cool yak… ha! funny place… find the teensiest, odor-filled alley you can find… turn left… and the cool yak is straight ahead… and it’s this little oasis… just newly opened… no wi-fi (wah) but there’s a café across the street that has it… so that’ll work! really, the cool yak is nice… clean… like every other hotel in Tibet, the beds are like rock (and my flat iron still won’t heat up… i think it might be dead... waaaaaahhhh! ) other than that, great… my new friend brian… and the school asst. director, tenzin, met me there, which was really nice…
no way i was going "rest"... too dang excited... so brian and i went out for a few laps around the barkhor… and talking with people… we’re in the middle of the holy time of saga dawa (the birth, enlightenment and death of buddha all rolled into one)... so there are many pilgrims in tibet… prostrating praying… amazing…
then dinner/drinks at dunya, which is run by a great couple from Holland… rather odd feeling sitting in a restaurant/bar steps from jokhang palace with zepplin and pink floyd blaring… overall a good night…gorgeous moon! brian is a wealth of information about the school…
we’re going to over tomorrow to check it out.. and i start work there on Monday…
i know why i’m here… and that’s a good thing…
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