During mother’s day, everybody got together to celebrate at a festival at the school. The villagers were so happy to see the kids so grown-up with good manners and respect. They are so grateful to our sponsors and supporters that made it possible for our children to receive a good education in Kathmandu, they are bringing so much happiness to our village.

We had a horse race festival. All the kids were so happy to join and ride horses again after a long time. We had a horse race for young people and another race for children. We also did a rope-pulling game too, and both villagers and HKH children had so much fun that day.

There was news on the radio that corona was getting worse, so we decided to start some classes in the greenhouse since the school was closed due to the lockdown. We began classes for all children from small age to the big one. The HKH students who had finished class 10 until 12, took on teaching children up to class 7. Nyima taught classes 9 and 10 students. We didn’t have our books in the village, but we had some exercise books from school so we learned grammar, advertisement, application, essay writing, handwriting, etc in 3 languages (Nepali, Tibetan, and English)

After some time, the families and children who own sheep and goats had to go on nomadic grazing with the animals. The grazing pastures are more than 4hrs from the village which is very far away. There, people have to stay to look after sheep, goats, cows, horses, etc. There aren’t any houses there so we need to stay in tents.

We got notice that we could open up the school of the village so we started the classes with some of the older children as teachers and the rest learning at the primary school. We did some education trips in nature with all kids, helping the small ones, and we had fun learning new things about nature. The weather was so nice and the grass was so green.

We did a traditional Nyungne fasting and purification practice with Rinpoche. Some kids joined and did very well, we were so blessed to have the chance to do this practice under Rinpoche’s guidance. We surely generated a lot of merit from it.

During our time in Komang, we also helped build two new houses in the school, and then we did the same kind of programs and games we do at HKH. We did different competitions, literacy, music, general culture, drawing competition, etc. All the villagers were so happy and some cried seeing their children participating in this program at the school. Even our ex-student cried a lot too.

We heard the news on the radio that the situation was getting better in Kathmandu. HKH students stopped going to school and started preparations to leave but some days later we heard the news that the situation is getting worse so children need to stay in the village.

During all this time our children were helping their families with the daily chores like taking water, collecting wood, looking after animals as shepherds, etc. After seven months the harvest time came and we all helped in the harvest collecting the crop for the winter. The weather was getting cold and we had finished all the fieldwork, then we heard that online classes were resuming in Kathmandu schools. We said goodbye to our families and started our journey back to Kathmandu so we didn’t miss any class. We reached HKH safely in winter 2021.