“This is my favorite part of the day. Good morning, Class Two C, I say. The entire class leaps up and sings out, Good morning, miss! Twenty-three faces are smiling at me. Sometimes they shout it wit...”

“Ive just been transferred to Kanglung, I say. They look at me to see if I am joking, and then they look at each other. There is a long, terrible silence and we all look at the floor. Karma Dorji wi...”

“Time has become a melding of minutes and months and the feeling of seasons. [] Leon says it is the Bhutan Time Warp and I know what he means. Time does not hurl itself forward at breakneck speed he...”

“I wanted to throw myself into an experience that was too big for me and learn in a way that cost me something”

“This is my favorite part of the day. “Good morning, Class Two C,” I say. The entire class leaps up and sings out, “Good morning, miss!” Twenty-three faces are smiling at me. Sometimes they shout it...”

“I’ve just been transferred to Kanglung,” I say. They look at me to see if I am joking, and then they look at each other. There is a long, terrible silence and we all look at the floor. Karma Dorji ...”

“This is my favorite part of the day. Good morning, Class Two C, I say. The entire class leaps up and sings out, Good morning, miss! Twenty-three faces are smiling at me. Sometimes they shout it wit...”

“Ive just been transferred to Kanglung, I say. They look at me to see if I am joking, and then they look at each other. There is a long, terrible silence and we all look at the floor. Karma Dorji wi...”

“There is a difference between arrival and entrance. Arrival is physical and happens all at once. The train pulls in, the plan touches down, you get out of the taxi with all your luggage. You can ar...”

“We tilt our heads back and open wide. The snow drifts into our zombie mouths crawling with grease and curses and tobacco flakes and cavities and boyfriend/girlfriend juice, the stain of lies. For o...”

“The teachers complain that the students today are all lazy, ignorant, and stupid. But the truth is that you're smarter than they are. You're not even old enough to drive and you already know that n...”

“I told her about school and how I sat on a wall there and felt stories and words move through me ...”

“The truth is, we value your company, for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devicesafter a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to other people's.”

“The cold rationalism simply covers for raw, wounded emotion. The more driven people are by the mind, the more they feel and further encode their feelings. The thickness of the tarpaulin cover is as...”

“Anything we fully do is an alone journey.”