The MA team left on Friday to go on outreach and so our base is quite quiet again. The next group we have are coming next Saturday and there are 35 of them total, so it's a big group. This last Thursday we had tea in our house and had a good time with all the MA participants and our staff.On Friday, Bev and I wanted to go on a prayer walk so we walked up to the Tibetan Buddhist Monastery. We joked around that we are training for Base Camp, because Bev has always wanted to climb Mt. Everest, and the monastery is quite a hike up in the hills. We are already over 6,000 ft, and there are parts of Shillong that are bit higher than that. She had never seen this sort of monastery before and we talked with the monks for a little while. The cook and one other monk served us tea and tried to talk to us, but they speak only Tibetan and a little Hindi. There are 13 that live there full time and every morning they spend hours in prayer. They have hundreds of prayer flags hanging in the trees and on lines and they believe that every time the wind moves the flags, that the prayers are released into the air.
