All the students of Jhamtse Gatsal Children’s Community will be released for winter vacation on the 14th of January.  All the staff will get a break as well, starting on the 15th.  The Indian government has urged us to have our major school break during the winter, rather than the summer.  This is good for us, since family member’s of the children and village elders are more likely to be available, and less busy with the farming.  Everyone will report back after 45 days of holiday.  May all the staff and children enjoy the vacation and may every member return back safely and at the end of the vacation, fresh for a new school year!

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Everyone celebrates the New Year in different way, and here at Jhamtse Gatsal, we enjoy any reason for a good celebration.  This year – 2010 – is very special to us.  So, we celebrated our New Year in a very fabulous way.  We  divided our staff and children into three groups and had a cultural show competition among us.  At 10 a.m. we started our program, and everyone really performed with their full energy.   It was surprising to see how well everyone performed, and it was lots of fun.  The day was fantastic!

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Today is an important day here at Jhamtse Gatsal Children’s Community – we have a new principal!  His good name is Tenzin Shastri, and he was educated at Banaras University.  All the members of our community heartily welcomed him and we are very happy to have a new principal.  We hope and believe that our community will progress like the waxing moon under his guidance.  All the best for him and our community!

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To help meet the needs of the growing number of students, Jhamtse Gatsal is having a Bath-house constructed. The first stage has been constructing metal columns.  It should be two stories when it is finished. The kids enjoy watching the builders work.  The first floor is almost done, and one of the workers has said that the bath house will be completed in December.

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from Dharamsala, Oct 28: Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu on Wednesday said the exiled Tibetan leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama will be accorded the honour of ’state guest’ during his week-long tour beginning November 8.  “He will be accorded with the honour of state guest. He will visit Tawang, Itanagar and some other places,” PTI quoted Khandu as saying.

We all at Jhamtse Gatsal – students and staff – are excited for His Holiness the Dalai Lama to visit Tawang.  We are planning  that we will go to Tawang for a couple of days when  His Holiness the Dalai Lama visits Tawang, and expect it to be a great experience for everyone!

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Yesterday, all the staff had to report back to the school, after 15 days of vacation.  Today, teachers and other staff are busy because all students will return to the school and start a new life and new experience.  We wish all success in the year ahead for them!

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We had planned to start our yearly vacation on the 9th of this month, but due to  Gyurtoe Khen Soor Lobsang Delek’s visit to our school, we have postponed the vacation by one day.  Today, October 10th, is one of the school’s luckiest days as Khen Rinpoche has visited our school.  This morning around 9:30 the school authorities, staff, students, and the local people all heartily welcomed Khen Rinpoche as he arrived at the school.  At 10 a.m. Rinpoche taught eight verses on how to train the mind, and followed the teaching by some other vows.  After the spiritual preaching, our students performed some multi-cultural dances and songs.

Upon finishing the above programs , all the students left on vacation. The school will reopen in 15 days at the end of the vacation.

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The Jhamtse Gatsal students are going to their half-year examinations.  The examination started on the 3rd and will go to the 8th of this month.  On the 10th to 24th of this month the children will go on holiday to their village.  Most of the staff will also visit other places to help keep their mind fresh.

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The Jhamtse Gatsal children are going to take their half-year examinations. The examinations started on the 3rd and all the students are busy preparing to show what they learned during the past six months.  They all hope to get top marks and maybe even be first in their grade.

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On 20th September 2009. All the Jhamtse Gatsal students and staff  danced and sang many songs for around one hour, to say thanks to Heather and Spencer for helping.  One of the students read the following letter:  “Dear Madam Heather and Spencer sir, I on behalf of all my friends would like to thank you for your art class. We learned many things from you, which we enjoyed and liked very much. Further, we want to learn more from you.  So, we will wait for your next visit. We all will miss you very much.”  Madam Heather and Spencer sir spent a long time at Jhamtse Gatsal helping the staff, Teachers and students with Arts, Computers, English and so many things each day.  All the staff and students believed that Heather and Spencer are really practicing love and compassion. The students and all staff would like Heather and Spencer to stay for a long time and are waiting to meet them again and again.

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Jhamtse Gatsal, Tibetan for “Garden of Love and Compassion”, is a children’s community located in the Indian foothills of the Himalayas. Opened in 2006, it is currently school and home for 50 children from disadvantaged family situations in the nearby villages.

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