My Mornings, but not in any sort of order

Since we moved up to Mcleod, my class schedule has mostly remained the same with the exception of two classes that are now entirely finished, as my professor had to head back to Miami early to make sure the Dalai Lama visit goes smoothly. As a result, I now have my afternoons entirely free. My day begins when I wake up around seven and have breakfast with my host family.

    

This is the view from temple road as I walk to IBD, where all our classes are held. As views go, it is much, much nicer than anything Ohio has to offer.

 My favorite breakfast here, something described only as Tibetan Pancakes. They taste more like Crepes, but are thicker and larger than actual pancakes. Tibetan pancakes go great with peanut butter and "various Fruits" (swedish fish?) jelly, and some milk tea. Milk tea goes with pretty much everything here, and is preferable in every way to traditional tibetan butter tea.

          

 After Chinese we usually have about an hour before our next class, so we occasionally go for a walk round the Kora, which is a long trail around the Dalai Lama's temple and residence. There is a small temple half way round with plenty of prayer wheels, and the whole area is pretty well covered in prayer flags, and is usually pretty filled with monks trying to squeeze in some more good karma or something equally buddhist sounding. While they do little for anyones karma, the Kora is also home to a good amount of mongeese.

 This is the view again from Temple road of IBD, the white building, and the Dalai Lama's temple, the yellow building behind it. The Institute of Buddhist Dialectics is home to a good amount of monks, and we use their library for our classes.

 STAIRS DOG! Mcleod has several billion stray dogs, and Stairsdog is without a doubt the best among them. He lives on the stairs outside my home, and spends the day following the sun around the balcony.

My building is practically in the center of town, which means I dont have to climb several hundred vertical feet to get to class like some of my classmates do. We live above Norling cafe, which serves the best MoMos in Mcleod. My door is directly above the rainbow colored umbrella.
Next time: My Afternoons! As a sneak peek, I will mention that I have been volunteering with english conversation classes with an organization which helps rehabilitate former Tibetan political prisoners. As a result, I now only speak in short sentences which would be easily understood by nonenglish speakers.