The Weekend!

So the weekend started off with a dinner party at out apartment. Well, it actually started with tea and snacks with the Head of the Department and some staff after a clinical education session. The CME was fun and the PTT intern presented on a case study of a patient with a malunion of the distal radius. I coached the student on his case study and I reviewed things with him and I had also seen the patient with him and warned him what he was going to be asked…and yet he choked and had a difficult time answering the questions. I ended up giving them a lesson on reading x rays and classifying fractures. Fun for me! I think they liked it and learned a lot. The students did, but the films here SUCK and the lateral views were terrible but good enough for teaching. As usual, I digress and talk about hands and we all know I love talking about the hand and how it all works!!! LOL! I will stop here about that. ;) My patients are so amazing and I am getting very sad about leaving in 2 weeks.  The patients are getting worried and asking for home programs and some look to see if I am busy then if I am they leave and come back when I am free! So funny! I also had to give my criteria for a boyfriend today… detailed so he could look for someone for me to stay here in Bhutan. 

Enough work talk, back to the weekend! We started out with a dinner party, that I have already blogged about. And sorry… I am trying to finish up things for the department and see as much as I can before I leave!!  So, next we went to Depchenphug Monastery. It was small and beautiful and we could not go into one of the shrine rooms. ONLY Bhutanese in the national dress, But we did get to go into another room. I am learning a lot about Bhutan and Buddhism and how there are many different branches and Chinese Buddhism is different from Bhutanese and Tibetan.  It is very complicated and yet it is beautiful … the monks sit and chant and really explain things in depth. They are also very hardy things…these monasteries are perched on mountains and you trek straight up!!!! My butt is getting an amazing work out!! HAHAHAHA!!! 

So, here's to the last 2 weeks here and I am going to soak it all in. Do as much as I can and see what I can see. I really am having an amazing experience and can't put it in words how I feel. I love being here and teaching and talking about hands and working with these kids. 

Dinner party again… HAHAHA!

The market… I love this place with local and organic produce.

Dechenphug Monastery

My hiking buddies ! These are an amazing group of people!

Cheri Monastery… really high in the mountains!

The view from the top!

So, this guru, I can't remember his name… had 7 sons, but he thought that they were possessed by demons. So, he threw his sons into the river and if they survived, they were not possessed. 5 sons survived and were found alive! I did not do the story justice, but it was disturbing! I asked them why didn't they just perform and exorcist?! ;)

Tango Monastery which is also a Monk University...