Summer News from School in Mustang – June 2018
Improved telecommunications now mean that we can receive more regular news of school activities whilst the girls are at summer school in Upper Mustang. For the first time there’s some occasional internet signal available due to improved phone signals. Our 3 new girls have settled in well – they come from Dhading, very poor district of Nepal and walked 5 or 6 days to get to winter school in Pokhara for admission before coming to Mustang. Thank you so much to our new sponsors for their kindness in supporting our newest and very welcome additions to the Namgon family. Lessons and...
Read MoreSummer Term Begins And The Snow Came Too!
Our lovely staff and students all safely arrived back in Upper Mustang to begin the start of the summer term. This winter has been exceptionally cold and even as late as early May the snow has fallen. Like children everywhere, of course our girls also like to play in the snow. But however picturesque and fun it is to play in the snow, daily activities like brushing teeth and lessons in class are harsh in the cold wintry weather. And everyone, students and teachers alike, feel the chill for sure during lesson time. Wrapping up warm is essential as there’s no heating in school. The...
Read MoreWinter Passes & Summer Term Soon Begins
So, school another term ends and the return from winter school in Pokhara to Upper Mustang began at the end of march when the girls who have families to go to and those that have families relatively accessible, returned home to Upper Mustang for a month long holiday with their families.The girls who wanted to stay in school – either to take extra Buddhist studies or whose families are too remote (or maybe are away with their animal herds), or simply those who don’t have families to return to, stayed in Pokhara with some staff. They joined the monks for teachings and Buddhist activities....
Read MoreEnd of Winter Term Fast Approaching
Winter term end is fast approaching and soon students, staff and support staff will make the challenging journey home again to Upper Mustang. For those of them that can get home or have families to meet they will be happy to join their families for a month before summer term begins in April. Exams are over and before term can end, teachers face the year and workload of marking papers and preparing student reports. The younger girls have been enjoying their free time preparing drawings for their sponsors which will be mailed together with their end of term school reports. It’s so...
Read MorePrayer Flags at Losar
One of the Losar traditions is to renew the prayer flags flying in the wind. There are two kinds of prayer flags: horizontal ones, called Lung ta, meaning “Wind Horse” in Tibetan, and vertical ones, called Darchog, meaning “flagstaff”. Lung ta (horizontal) prayer flags are of square or rectangular shape, and are connected along their top edges to a long string or thread. They are commonly hung on a diagonal line from high to low between two objects (e.g., a rock and the top of a pole) in high places such as the tops of temples, monasteries, stupas, and mountain...
Read MoreExam Time and Happy Losar
The end of winter term is fast approaching and soon students and staff will travel back to Upper Mustang for the summer. Before that happens though there’s the matter of exam time! This week has been a busy one with exams at the beginning of the week and now culminating in festivities for all as 3 days of Losar (ལོ་གསར་ in Tibetan, “new year”) celebrations begin today 16th February as everyone welcomes in The Year of The Earth Dog. Wishing all our students, teachers, friends, supporters and brothers and sisters in our Namgon family a very happy Losar Year of the Earth...
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