Live from Dharamsala

The internet is a little unreliable, but I am posting from Dharamsala after three days of traveling. I'm up at 7:30 am because my body is very confused but I don't intend to correct it. It's very cool here, and by that I mean it's freezing at night. I'm going to rent a space heater. I know it makes me look like a wuss but I'm going to do it so I don't have to wear my winter jacket to bed.

I can see the Himalayas from my house!

Otherwise things here are very nice. I think I found a nice place. Yesterday Noah from my volunteer organization was explaining that I had to remember to lock the windows and door all the time because of "monks."
Me: "You mean bugs, right?"
Noah: "No. Monks."
Me: "You must mean bugs." (even though it isn't that buggy here)
Noah. "Not bugs. Monks."
Me: "You're telling me monks will get in here and mess up all my stuff ... do you mean MONKEYS?"
Noah: "Yes, monkeys."
Me: "Because I don't know how monks would fit through the window."

And we had a good laugh about that.

To be fair there are a lot of monks, though some of them are nuns.

Up for today: Renting a cell phone, getting in contact with friends who will help get the project going, figure out what I'm doing at the Tibet Post maybe. Also I bet I'll get lost a bunch of times even though McLeod-Ganj is tiny because there's no street signs. It's already happened twice.