Getting Colder...

So we (Kelly, a new friend Max and myself) were cruising through Lhasa being tourists, taking pics of all the sites and doing a little exploring this last saturday, and we found this incredible site. We were right next the Norbalinka which is the summer palace of Lhasa, and it looked like Jack Frost had a field day.



It kinda reminded me of that old cartoon where Jack Frost is blowing on trees and they instantly become icicles, except he got tired after freezing only one corner of the block and decided to take a break... indefinitely. Mind you, when we found this it was around noon. The sun was shinning. Yet here was a fifty meter area that looked like it got on the White Witch from Narnia's bad side. Either way it was a nice and surprising photo break from the bike ride around the city.

Night at the Potala

Teaching is cruising right along. A lot of my time recently has been devoted to my research project concerning learning style differences between Han and Tibetan students in my context. It has been a lot of fun to meet up with a lot of the teachers and get their opinions of some of the better teaching methods to use in the classroom. But as one of my breaks from work I cruised down to the Potala Palace around 9 p.m. and decided to see what pics I could come up with. It was really a nice night, and surprisingly not as freezing as it has been the last couple nights. There were even kids playing in the water fountain! Not warm enough for me to get near the water, but warm enough to try and get a couple shots.