The Ravens won their first game! I shouted really helpful things like ‘Go Phub
Dem!’ and ‘No, get the ball to go the other way!’ which I’m sure helped get
them to a nil-all draw and then 4-0 win on the penalty shoot outs (I hope I’m
using correct football, as in soccer, terms.
I don’t think any off side rules came into play but then I wouldn’t have
noticed if they had). Sadly, they lost
their second game which was 1-0 to Takin House and, even more sadly, I wasn’t
there to see it as I got a wonderful strain of the flu which kept me at home
for a few days. I’m sure they would have
won if I had been there to shout more really helpful things. I did manage to get a few pictures of the
first match and a couple of them were hardly blurry at all. I need mom to come and teach me how to
properly use a camera.
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| The Ravens are naturally in white and the Blue Poppies in red because that's logical. I'm not sure which team the dog was playing for. |
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| The Ravens during half time. |
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| A Raven poised to attack. To be fair, this was probably taken when the ball rolled down the hill and had to be rescused which happen about every 2 and a half minutes. |
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| Damcho did not push Sangay out of the way. It just really looks like she did. |
Along with trying to act like I knew something about
football and being irritatingly ill, I had a stressful adventure after my
desire to have a moth-free pantry went slightly wrong. I brought with me some moth and silverfish
traps which are a little cardboard tent-y thing with really sticky stuff on the
inside (Apologies to any insect lovers out there but they drive me nuts. Are silverfish insects? I’ve never counted their legs. Well, apologies to any arthropod lovers
anyways). Until last week I had totally
forgotten that I had them but set one as soon as I remembered. I got home from school and checked to see if
the trap had been successful. And while
it had been successful in catching something it was about as far from something
I wanted caught as possible. A juvenile
gecko was stuck fast to the pad and was obviously displeased with the state of
affairs. It had already dropped its tail
which was also stuck fast but that hadn’t really helped. I tried to unstick it with a spoon but the
poor thing really was stuck fast and I was terrified of hurting it. So I did the only thing I could think
of. I called my mommy. She first suggested sprinkling flour (which I
didn’t have but for reasons I can’t remember I did have icing sugar) on the
sticky stuff which did help in stopping my hand getting stuck but had limited
success on the gecko. I managed to get
its front half off the stuff but could not get its back half off and it was
understandably not cooperative. By now I
was utterly in tears because I had a very distressed gecko and I really didn’t
know if it was going to be ok.
Fortunately, my incredibly tolerant and patient mother asked the
all-knowing Oracle of Google what the best course of action would be and it
immediately answered ‘Olive Oil.’ This
was generously poured over numerous things in the kitchen including the moth
trap. I’m happy to say that it worked
almost instantaneously. I had to give
the little guy a quick bath before setting it free. It did need a bit of persuasion to get off my
hand but eventually ran off to a hopefully less sticky destination. I hope it accepted my apology which I gave
numerous times. And I love my mommy very
much and I hope the gecko does too.
We also had our school rimdro last Friday which did not
include any fire dancers unlike last time.
Though they are fun to watch I was quite happy that nobody was there to
throw a handful of kerosene soaked bark powder on me. Of course, since I wore my kira many students
insisted on having a photo with me but it is Bhutanese custom to not smile in
photos which, since I did smile, led to some interesting photos.
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| Ecstatic |
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| I swear they asked for the photo! |
And since you are meant to wear a badge, I came prepared
this year and wore this on my tego (blouse). I didn't really try to explain it.
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| It's now a secret to everyone. |
And finally, last year I saw some young monks gaming in an internet cafe but was unable to give you a photo because the only one I took was a bit blurry. Yesterday a couple of slightly older monks came into the same cafe and were happy to pose.
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| Ah, meditation |
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Hugs to all and have a strawberry on the 19th for T'eo's Birthday! That really should be an International Holiday. T'eo!
Good morning, how are you?
ReplyDeleteMy name is Emilio, I am a Spanish boy and I live in a town near to Madrid. I am a very interested person in knowing things so different as the culture, the way of life of the inhabitants of our planet, the fauna, the flora, and the landscapes of all the countries of the world etc. in summary, I am a person that enjoys traveling, learning and respecting people's diversity from all over the world.
I would love to travel and meet in person all the aspects above mentioned, but unfortunately as this is very expensive and my purchasing power is quite small, so I devised a way to travel with the imagination in every corner of our planet. A few years ago I started a collection of used stamps because trough them, you can see pictures about fauna, flora, monuments, landscapes etc. from all the countries. As every day is more and more difficult to get stamps, some years ago I started a new collection in order to get traditional letters addressed to me in which my goal was to get at least 1 letter from each country in the world. This modest goal is feasible to reach in the most part of countries, but unfortunately, it is impossible to achieve in other various territories for several reasons, either because they are very small countries with very few population, either because they are countries at war, either because they are countries with extreme poverty or because for whatever reason the postal system is not functioning properly.
For all this, I would ask you one small favor:
Would you be so kind as to send me a letter by traditional mail from Bhutan? I understand perfectly that you think that your blog is not the appropriate place to ask this, and even, is very probably that you ignore my letter, but I would call your attention to the difficulty involved in getting a letter from that country, and also I don’t know anyone neither where to write in Bhutan in order to increase my collection. a letter for me is like a little souvenir, like if I have had visited that territory with my imagination and at same time, the arrival of the letters from a country is a sign of peace and normality and an original way to promote a country in the world. My postal address is the following one:
Emilio Fernandez Esteban
Calle Valencia, 39
28903 Getafe (Madrid)
Spain
If you wish, you can visit my blog www.cartasenmibuzon.blogspot.com where you can see the pictures of all the letters that I have received from whole World.
Finally, I would like to thank the attention given to this letter, and whether you can help me or not, I send my best wishes for peace, health and happiness for you, your family and all your dear beings.
Yours Sincerely
Emilio Fernandez