Moving into my own apartment

Finally my apartment is ready and I can move in. It was good to stay at the hotel to begin with but now I’m looking forward to moving out. The thing I will miss from the hotel location is the stupa directly next to it and which I visited every day and had a lot of nice encounters. As it is an unfurnished apartment I had to buy the basics for living as there isn’t even a stove or anything to cook.

Pema and Pasang were so kind to help me buy all the stuff I needed even though it was their day off. I was very glad of their help as they knew exactly in which stores to get good things for a good price. For example the blankets where over 6’000 Ngultrum at the one place where I wanted to buy them but Pema told me she knew a better place and in the end I only payed 1300 Ngultrum there! It's so very helpful to have all the local expertise if you yourself haven't got a clue about how things work in this completely new environment. A few things I can even borrow from colleagues or from the work place which is very kind. Thank you all very much!