First Post from Hope

First Post from Hope:

EXPLORING BHUTAN

My dad started homeschooling us today. It was really fun and calming because my dad goes at my pace. This is our schedule:
1 hour of work (usually math)
20 minutes of outside time (like a hike)
small snack
1 hour of work (usually grammar, spelling and religion)
30 minutes of reading.

When my mom went to work on Monday, dad, Eden, Trey and I hiked down the Hill of Doom toward the downtown area in the afternoon to go exploring. 

It is very steep.  You can see the downtown area after the building with the green roof. 

You can see Trey in this one. 

 

We are walking east to west now (flat) toward main town.  The hospital my mom works at is on the left.   The main prayer Chorten in town (where people and pray together) is the gold topped sphere in the middle of the picture.  We are about half way to the main part of town at this point.   

 



 

This is the entrance to the hospital where mom works. 

First we went to Zombala 1.  They have only two items on the menu:  Momos and fried rice.  We had momos which is a boiled dumpling with spiced beef.  It was very good and I ate it all.  I also had a bottled Pepsi just to see how different if was from back at home.  One word:  Blah! 

Then we went to 8 Eleven, one of the bigger grocery stores in town.  We got a bunch of weird stuff like milk in a box, potato sticks in a bag like chips, Chicken nuggets shaped like dinosaurs, Mango juice (again in a box), and Litchi juice.

Then the hike back up the Hill of Doom.  It was hard and tiring but I think I can get used to it. 

That night we went to dinner with Vincent's parents at a restaurant called the Rice Bowl. 

On Day Two of us learning from dad, we took a hike in our neighborhood at recess.  We went uphill.  When the road ended, we just kept walking on our first mountain trail. 

To our surprise (and dad's happiness) we found that the mountain trail led to a water something.  Dad says it supplies water for our neighborhood and needs to be uphill from our house to provide pressure.  As we headed back, we saw a skull stuck in the dirt!!  It freaked me out!  Dad thinks it was a dog skull. 

That is all for now.  Hope.