Here is a message from our friend Thayer MacClay, 18, of Warren, Vermont. Thayer is taking a year off before entering college (Colorado College) to put on 7 League Boots to explore the world and help people at the same time. I thought you would enjoy this. He is spending the fall in Ladakh in the Indian region of Jammu and Kashmir. I wish I were there in those high Himalays on the Tibet border!
Ray
Dear Friends and Family,
A lot has happened since my last update. Now, the VIS ( Vermont Intercultural Semester) group and I are well settled into SECMOL (Student Educational and cultural Movement of Ladak h) and it's way of life. A typical day starts at 6:30 for the Ladakhis. They tend to study in the morning and some milk the cows along with some other chores. Then, at 8:00 there is breakfast. Curd and tea almost always are available, accompanied by teemok (unsweetened, cinnamonless, and greaseless cinnamon buns) or chapatti (thick barley flour tortilla), and lentils
or some other vegetable dish. After washing our own dishes, we hang out in the morning sun until 9:00 when work hour begins.
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