Hello Friends,

First  of all, Happy New Year!!  

What an adventure we are on! We are having so much fun!

It is very easy for me to paint a picture in a few words of a life not so dissimilar to ours in the USA - went to buy groceries, got a cell phone, etc., etc, but truly it is quite foreign in so many ways. So I thought maybe I would describe some of the situations that are far more involving then might be imagined, and share a little of life here, so far.

There is a noticeable hum over Lhasa, and all inhabited Tibet. It is heard above the din of traffic noise, not diminished by the clatter of horse carts, louder then squabbles and arguments, and stronger then the sound of Chinese soldiers marching together.