Weekend! Apart from Saturday morning where there was teaching from 9 - 13. But it was a short day and we had great fun :-)
The rest of Saturday I just relaxed - read my book , wrote some emails and did whatever I wanted to do. I also went to bed early, because I felt pretty exhausted after the first week of teaching ;-) Don't get me wrong - I think it is great fun and I love doing it - but I did work for many hours this week so I needed some sleep.

On Sunday I called Steffen and asked if he wanted to come with me to the market down by the river. This is the local place where the inhabitants of Thimphu go every weekend to buy EVERYTHING they need. On one side of the river you find all kinds of food - vegetables, fruit, cereals, cheese, eggs and dried fish. When it is not the meat free month you can also buy meat there. On the other side of the river you can buy anything else - clothes, knives, art works, praying flags and so on. It is great fun to take a walk there and Steffen and I walked around and looked at everything.

We went to the Ambient Café for lunch and were very surprised when we suddenly heard somebody speaking Danish! This café is the international meeting place for a lot of foreigners in Thimphu and also for some of the young Bhutanese people who like the international atmosphere. The Danish speaking couple turned out not to be a couple. They came from "Danish Institute for Parties and Democracy" and were in Bhutan to help the Bhutanese people create more democracy - a platform for women in politics was their first mission. I am still amazed at how many projects are going on here. At the hotel I met another couple - Americans - the woman was also working here on some project concerning the water supply. Sometimes I wonder if anybody knows the whole picture of all the projects. What if some project is work against each other in some way? I do hope the Bhutanese keep an eye on all the projects ;-)

There was a big fire in the forest outside Thimphu today. There is no road leading into the area where the fire started so the fire brigades cannot go there. People try to stop the fire on foot and they say that they will get it under control on Monday. I hope so. Apparently they have fires during the winter because it is so dry here.