It was hard to leave the land of the thunder dragon!
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So many things to say farewell to:
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The “dorm room” of the guesthouse looked positively spacious without all our stuff!
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There were farewell parties up at Yonphula, and a bonfire down at Sherubtse. On the last evening, and the last morning, there were neighbors and colleagues to be sadly missed.
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But what touched us most was the caravan of students who drove 90 minutes down the road with us, a kata trailing out the window of the lead car, until we found another group of students waiting to feast us with butter tea and sweet rice on the hillside.
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We had given the students little turned bowls from Trashi Yangtse as farewell gifts, and they used those bowls to toast us on the road:
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We laughed and we cried and then we said farewell,
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driving “to down,” past the classic signs of the Samdrup Jongkhar road.
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