Day 22: Sewing

We worked on the detail of the shade structure today. I worked on mocking up a full scale section of the corner where the fabric meets the hardware which is attaching it to the ground or wall. Sadly i don't have an pictures of exactly what i was working on but i do have some others:

The doorway to the sky! You feel so much closer to it all here, last night the stars were out and beautiful but you could only see half the amount of sky here as i'm used to in the northwest.

Here is my new pen pal Nilza helping me sew. It's really sweet that many of the girls at the school have come started to ask for our names and addresses so that we could send letters. But they just can't wait to share now and many of them have brought us gifts. Nilza told me she would bring me Momo tomorrow for lunch (it's a ladakhi version of the pot sticker), so tonight i'm going to look around for a little something for her too.

A beautiful shot of a valley we visted a couple of days ago.

The largest Buddha in Ladakh, over 45ft tall if i remember correctly.