Shakespeare is Everywhere

The Puli School is a miracle. If you would like to know more about it's history, Spring has done an outstanding job detailing it's story. You can read more about it on her website at http://www.mystictrails.com/CommunityProjects_Puli_Story.htm

For my part, I want to outline the small details that struck me. First of all, the children look young. When they were performing their dances and singing their songs, I thought they were between 6 and 15. They were actually between 9 and 20. Due to a lack of financial resources, servings of protein are often scarce and the students are undernourished. They are lucky to receive eggs once a week. There are inadequate sources of heat and bedding at the school, which is in an area that is below freezing for most of the winter. In October, when we were all coated in down, the children were wearing light jackets. That being said, it is absolutely clear that students at Puli School know they are a part of something larger than themselves. Everyone there sacrifices for the benefit of their Tibetan education. The headmaster literally sold all he owned to create the school and his example lives on in the students and the volunteers. I have never seen anything like it.

I would also like to point out that there was a drawing of Shakespeare hanging on the wall near Confucius. I could almost hear them conversing;
"Lord, what fools these mortals be."
"Exactly. To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge."
"Yes, or you could say, to be or not to be, that is the question."
"Ah, very metaphysical my friend, very metaphysical."