Yesterday, Sunday, was a quiet day. I did a lot of preparations for the teaching on Monday and I played around with the video camera to get to know it better. It is a video camera that the international department bought for me to take down here so I needed to learn how to play it on my computer and how to connect Carsten's loudspeakers and a lot of other little things. But I think I'm ok with it now.

In the afternoon Steffen and I had a cup of coffee together - Steffen has also started his course today, Monday, so we were both very busy preparing. Even so we had to eat so we took a taxi down to the Jumolhari again (nice place, good food) and spent an hour together. We discussed whether or not Bhutanese babies are smaller than Danish ones when they are born because people here are generally smaller than people in Denmark. I am not sure if we reached any conclusion though ;-)

I went to bed early to get a good night's sleep before the BIG day - start of the Master Trainer course!

Kinley picked me up this morning at 8.30 to take me down to the place where we are having the course. The trainers from the institutes were already there and I recognized 4 of them from my visits to the institutes in November - that was a good feeling :-)

I have 13 participants in all - 8 from the institutes and 5 from the Ministry. They seem to be very kind people - I have to admit that all Bhutanese people I ever met are kind. They seemed a bit quiet today but it was the first day and there were lots of introductions and presentations. I hope they will be more active and comment on things when we get going tomorrow. We'll see - maybe they will just listen to me and not talk? I hope not!

It was very cold in the room - we have some electric heaters but they can't heat up the whole room. The guy from Gelephu, Mr. Rinzin, is really cold. It is 20 degrees where he comes from and here it is no more than 4 - and almost the same inside ;-) Well, a bit warmer but still COLD!
We get warm tea twice a day and Bhutanese lunch at noon. They served different courses so it was easy for me to find something to eat and to avoid the stewed chilies ;-) At lunch time the sweet girl from the kitchen came and offered us….. WARM water in the glasses. I never tried that before but it was fine - because of the cold ;-)

Monday night I was really busy looking through my materials for Tuesday - I always need to go through the program to feel confident about it. Looking forward to tomorrow!