Well what do you know, I've created a blog!

When my friend Steve suggested about ten months ago that I start a blog for the folk who might wish to follow my progress at Nalanda Monastery I felt quite ambivalent as I couldn’t understand why anyone would want to. I mean, it’s not as if I’m singlehandedly trekking to the source of the Amazon (neither the river nor the website), although community life does have its challenges and trying to quieten the cacophony of thoughts in my head is, as they say like trying to herd cats and there are plenty of those around here as you can see.

 

Here are some I herded earlier!



Anyhow I digress, as you will find is my wont to do, so I have finally decided to enter the realm of blogging (with the much appreciated guidance of fellow Basic Program student and blogger Bork of whom I'm sure you will hear more in the future) in order to keep in touch with and mostly bore the pants off of all those out there who know me within whom there a faint glimmer of "I wonder what happened to that lanky buddhist bloke?"

Well here endeth my first post, please bear with me whilst I try to master the intricacies of this technological malarkey and I'm sure the format will be impermanent as I fiddle with all the possibilities available to me as a nascent blogger, it has taken me a couple of days to figure out how to actually type this post, so don't hold your breath if you're expecting frequent missives!

I hope that I can give an insight into this marvellous place and what I am studying in order to develop a more settled outlook on life and more importantly that I can occasionally make you chuckle at the ups and downs of life in a multilingual buddhist community.