Palden's Paro Puja Postponed

No Puja for me this weekend.  The Je Kempo, spiritual leader of Bhutan, is coming to our town for 7 or 10 days.  Palden was asked by the Dasho Dzongdha himself to put a team together to clean the guest house where His Holiness will be staying.  Completely unfair on many levels.  I have been helping so I get to see where HH will be sleeping.  I wish I had brought my camera today as Palden spent most of the time 2 stories up on a ladder cleaning windows . . . in her kira. 

I quickly changed my plans and am headed to Thimphu on Saturday after classes and the storytelling contest.  It is the Thimphu Tsechu and a bunch of my BCF colleagues will be there.  I am sharing a room with Valerie Robert, and will meet Matt, Lucy and Bob's parents.  I am looking forward to it now that the sudden change has taken place. 

My new Japanese room mate, Akari, has brought luxury to my life.  She purchased a fridge and a washing machine.  She also convinced the principal and/or VP to let us use some school furniture.  So today a Bhutanese couch and a coffee table arrived.  Behind  the couch is my lovely carpet, which I am still not using as the mouldy smell is overwhelming.  I have found that the mould washes out easily  as some of the clothes I had put away in a bag reeked.  Funny - one fleece jacket was unwearable until washed and the other, in the same bag, was fine.  I will scrub the carpet and hang it out when it dries up here. 

Although it rained a wonderful storm with thunder and lightening here tonight, it is drying up a bit - there is wind again and the air is hinting at fall.  Next week is Blessed Rainy Day, and that is when the rainy season is supposed to taper off and hopefully come to an end.