Blackout
Posted by: lucie | From: November 8, 2005
This is it. My last little post. I'm going in. Tomorrow morning, I'm going in! I've packed all my contraband stuff in a small bag to leave in the monastery office for the duration of the course. It contains:
Powerbook
iPod
English phone
Czech phone
Underwear that is black and lacy
Condoms
A cute pair of shoes you'd never wear in a monastery
Two Lonely Planet guides (non-dharma reading)
Two perfumes
Lots of makeup
Non essential beauty products
One ring
Onward flight tickets
...and a few other bits and pieces.
Today I walked around Kathmandu and tried really hard not to buy EVERYTHING IN SIGHT. I ordered two rings to be custom made - you can pick out the gems and the settings they size you and make them exactly the way you want them. I love rings.
I've been hanging out with a couple of girls from Canada who teach at a rich girls' school in Abu Dhabi. Apparently most girls, or most people, are rich in Abu Dhabi. Apparently of the 12 million people who live there, only 8000 of them have to work because the rest of them are rolling in oil money. Ten percent of these girls' students are princesses who are not allowed to have any contact with boys after they start their periods. I said what, you mean they can't actually touch them? And they said no, they can't talk to them or look at them. Sheesh.
Anyway, that's my last entry for a month. Not very inspired but I've little time! Bye everyone! I'm entering the blackout period! Goodbye!
