Tuesday, April 29, 2014

23-29 April

RHSS is always filled with activities. We had 2 important personnel visiting us this week : The Education Minister and Director General (Youth & Sports).

I preferred DG (Y & S) to the Education Minister. The former was very receptive towards ideas and he came here to promote scouting to the schools.

Personally, I felt that Scouts may not receive such attention in Singapore because there are other Uniform Groups the government need to consider as well. Scouting is a big thing here.  It’s good to catch up with Pema and Nawang (the leader trainers of Bhutan Scout Association) though.

I did not have any co-teaching with the teachers since it’s the “unit test week”. Most teachers need to clear their syllabus this week.

Another good practice in RHSS is the teachers’ training every quarter of the year. I personally felt that I had received so much more from RHSS compared to what I had given.

The theme of these 2 days session was : “Teaching to lead”. The trainers, Mr Raj & Bina Sekhar are good friends of Dr Solomon Wang. It was a refreshing and timely reminder of the great responsibility as a teacher.

After the workshop, there is always this usual problem of moving forward with the new learning. How can I help the teachers to sustain their motivation after they got so “charged up“.  With the 2 more Saturday sessions left in May, how can I move the teachers to a higher notch and put all they learnt into practice? As quoted :   “Motivation does have an expiry date and there need new intervention to sustain the motivation of the learners”.

It was a regret that the Dzongkha department was unable to join us in these 2 days sessions. I felt that they should attend because they are part of the teaching team. This group is a very united bunch. They helped to cook our Teacher’s Day dinner at Mdm Sangay’s (proprietor) place. Appreciate them but I am unable to communicate much with them because most of them speak Dzongkha.

Mdm Sangay’s house is big and beautiful. She is also a relative of the 4th King’s wife.  There seems to be a big gap between the rich and the poor.

Mdm Sangay and her husband will be going to Hong Kong on 30 April and Mr Tshering will be doing a 1-month course in Australia, Brisbane starting May. The school is going to be pretty quiet then.

I picked up my confidence to cook for the RHSS colleague. I invited about 30 teachers with their families to my place on Saturday. A big project for me. It was really nice to hear that their praises and laughter.

Thanks to Fai and group (thai friends), Karma and Ugyen (the couple), Namgay, Anne and Chimi and Tshering (students). They helped me in the cooking and the clearing up.

Time flies, it was almost the end of April. 1.5 month later, I will be back in Singapore. I began to appreciate the warm sunshine of Singapore. Bhutan is not spared from global warming and the weather is quite erratic. I began to feel feverish towards the end of the week. I need rest and more rest.

The 4 teachers finally decided upon the camp date : 9-11 May. Unfortunately, we may need to stay in the school instead of camping outside. We were unable to get the tents from BSA (Bhutan Scout Association) as it coincided with the spiritual retreat on 9 May.

During my stay in RHSS, I found that the girls are physically quite weak. I attended to a number of female students who fainted during the morning assembly.

This Friday is Teacher’s Day!! I am going to have another day of fun. And in the evening, I will be going to Dr Wang’s place for dinner. Yeah!! I am growing fat. Too much food.

I should be expecting quite a number of visitors in May. Pro Stan, Matthew and wife, Dr Robin Yap. Great to have Singaporean friends coming over to Bhutan. That goes to show Bhutan is attractive to Singaporeans.


I must start to travel on 1st, 3rd and 4th week of May. I need to see Bhutan before I come back to Singapore. Bhutan : A beautiful country.

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

13-22 April

One of RHSS teacher, A, asked me what were the problems I faced when I came to RHSS to do teaching and sharing. She was interviewing me for her master thesis.

I answered her simply : “No problem at all, if I learn to manage my expectation.”

It is a simple truth that I have long come to terms with. It is an important truth, no matter what we do.

Problems abound everywhere, no matter what we do, and who we meet. It is our expectation that we need to learn to manage.

I am a true believer in Brain-Based Learning and I advocate what I preach.

Since the beginning of the March, I have been working on the teachers’ mindset because the brain simply won’t change without creating a buy-in.

It is pointless sharing my own experiences and boost about how “great” I am when I am not sensitive of the situation and the needs here.  As I interacted with the staff more, I realized there were so many untapped potentials in these teachers. We had among them, lecturer in Indian Teacher’s College, Master degree holder, philosophy etc.. These teachers brought with them a vast amount of knowledge especially in  research-based teaching methodologies.

There is a great need to unleash the potentials in the teachers, not just the students.

What I see in RHSS is the danger of complacency and mental block. The longer these “great” teachers stay in the school and find that all teachers are doing the traditional way and it works for the exam system here, they go with the flow. It becomes a new norm for them. 

There exists a possible “blame” mentality : “ It’s the system that drive us towards exam-oriented style of teaching”, “the students are so used to be spoon-fed and they do not like the creative way of getting them to think”, “we have the time constraint to complete our syllabus”.. and the list goes on.

Unfortunately, it is a genuine problem here.

There is no real motivation for the teachers to think out of the box because doing things a different way forces them out of the comfort zone, put them at a “risk” of not able to complete the syllabus since both teachers and students are experimenting on new methodology.

The constraints, availability of resources, mental mindset of teachers and students must be taken into consideration before any real changes can take place.

It takes great wisdom to be able to know when is the right time, right situation to apply the appropriate method with the teachers. We have to learn to work around situation when it seems impractical to implement certain methodologies.

I felt a great sense of joy in this country not because I had achieved much, but rather, the people and situation made me realize this important truth.

I learnt to co-teach with the various departments this week because I felt that was the way I could contribute towards the school.

My effort did not go wasted.  I had been receiving favorable comments from both teachers and students. This, alone was a great encouragement to me. I learnt to tweak the different methods to suit the current situation in RHSS. The teachers are very receptive towards it.

“In giving, we receive much more.” How true this was !

I drew inspiration from the school principal, Mr Tshering and the management adviser, Dr Wang. I see their hearts for the students in RHSS. The more I interacted with Mr Tshering, the more I respected him.

He is such a driven person! Together with Dr Wang, he works tirelessly for the school even during weekends.  And I knew that the students respected him as well. It was not easy for him to manage both internal and external school affairs.  He is a capable man and I hope God will continue to bless him with wisdom to bring the school to greater heights.

I received my due reward too. As I gave my time for my scouts, staff and friends, I received so much more. I felt very appreciated by them.

I enjoyed the Easter service at Thimphu church this week. It was quite amazing to see how the youth brought out the message of God’s love using simple props and songs. Together with the Nepali people, we celebrated our Easter in a very unique way.

Asked about the Nation of the Thunder Dragon, it does have its imperfections, just like Singapore. But when we learn to look beyond, happiness exists within our hearts. It is up to us to search from within and ask ourselves what we truly want in life.

A young Bhutanese will aspire to move out of the country to seek for greater opportunities. A city dweller like me will come to Bhutan to seek for inner peace.

Be it Bhutan or Singapore, the government of both countries have their own set of problem to grapple with.  Is there a perfect place in this world? I don’t think there will ever be one. It is the resilience of the people, the sense of rootedness in them that will make what a nation truly is and how it will become.


Tuesday, April 15, 2014

8-13 April

Isaiah 55 : 9 -12 :  

“As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

As the rain and snow come down from heaven and do not return to it without watering the earth, and making it bud and flourish, so it will yield seeds for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth; it will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.

You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.”

I realized how true these words were to me during the week. My heart is joyful and I was led forth in peace by God.

The journey has never been so joyful to me as I continue to “plough the field”. The grounds are softer now and I can see more buy-ins.  Indeed the brain won’t change if there is no buy-ins.

Brain-based learning strike a chord among the teachers who attended the 1 hour  session. I was pleasantly surprised when Mr Santhosh came up to me after the session to share with me about the brain-based learning. He didn’t look “friendly” to me when I first came to RHSS. It was at that moment that i realised that there were so many talents in RHSS, waiting for the right avenues to share.

Mr Pradeep, the English teacher gave me a smile and told me he enjoyed my session though this was his 1st PD session. Ms Anju and Mdm Sita copied my videos from the teacher’s sharing folder immediately after my session because they wanted to view it again.

What an encouragement !!

I knew empowerment and creating a win-win among the HODs is the way to bring the school to a higher notch.

I learned to create a safe space for the HODs to share, The environment was cordial and it opened up new avenues for discussion. I encouraged Mdm Budhawanti to consider working with the 2 APs to bring the HODs together. They will be a very powerful team.

I met Lorrie during the week to catch up. Somehow we just “clicked”!! We shared a lot in common and I hope she will come to school to serve as a counselor. I was pleasantly surprised to learn that there is an English church in Thimphu. I never thought I will be able to find a church here. I am able to celebrate my Easter now!!

I invited Anne to come along with me. I was pleasantly surprised that Pradeep and Anand also worship at the same church. It was amazing how God works!!
I had a great time and I even acquainted myself with the Japanese couple there. Now I can “force” myself to converse with my new Japanese friends.

This week marked the end of the scout leader training course. It was thrilling to see my colleagues putting on the scarf and all ready to serve as scout masters and mistresses.  

Recognition is indeed very important to the Bhutanese. Or rather, I may say it is human nature that everyone desires to be recognized for their effort. At the church, Pradeep even showed me a certificate of recognition for his teaching at Indian school in 2011-2012. 

I will continue to go where God leads because I know that He has a purpose for me wherever I go. I am not lonely here because He has brought so many angels to me.

As I continue the week with 3 days without water, I learn to appreciate every single drop of water now. Whenever there is water in the house, I will make sure I do my laundry and collect water for the next day. In this way, I will never be caught a day without water.

We must never take anything for granted, especially the simple luxury we have in Singapore.

God is good all the time.


Tuesday, April 8, 2014

The Power of Choice (My morning assembly speech to the RHSS students)


Good morning Mr Tshering, Mr Pramod, Mr Pasang, Mdm Budhawati, fellow teachers and students. I would like to thank Mr Tshering for giving me this privilege and honor to share my thoughts.  I hope it will be a meaningful sharing for all of you today.

I have with me, 2 students : Chilmi and Tshering today and they are going to answer some of my question during the sharing.

Let me start my sharing by telling you a story. It is a story about an old farmer and a old horse.

This old farmer is very poor, all he has is an old sick horse which he used to help him in his field. One day, he felt sad for his horse, so he decided to let his sick horse go into the wild, to live out the rest of its life.

Question : So what do you think the old farmer is going to use for his farm, since he let his horse go?  He has nothing to farm his land?

So all his villagers came and offered their sympathy and said : “How unfortunate you are!! How are you going to work the land and prosper?”.

The old farmer replied : “Who knows? We shall see.”

2 days later, the old horse came back, rejuvenated after meandering in the mountainsides while eating the wild grasses. It came back with 12 new younger horses.

Word spread to the village of the old farmer’s good fortune and people came to congratulate the farmer on his good fortune.

On the next morning, the farmer’s only son set off to train the 12 new wild horses. He was thrown onto the ground and he broke his leg.

Question : If you are the villagers or the farmer’s wife, how will you react towards this unfortunate event?

Words spread and the villagers came : Oh, what a tragedy! Your son won’t be able to help you farm with a broken leg. You’ll have to do all the work by yourself.”

Calmly going about his usual business, the farmer answered, “Who knows? We shall see.”

Several days later a war broke out. The Emperor’s men arrived in the village demanding all the young men to be conscripted into the Emperor’s army.

But the farmer’s son was deemed unfit because of his broken leg.

As it turned out, all the young village boys died in the war and the old farmer and his son were the only able bodied men capable of working on the village lands. The old farmer became wealthy and prosperous.

Question : How many of you have heard this story before?

It is quite a well-known story that is encouraging to me. This story taught me not to see things at its face value.

What do you mean by face value? It means things or situation that appear to what it is. 

At the first turn of the event, many people thought that it’s stupid enough that the farmer will let the horse go without thinking about his livelihood!! He made a bad choice.

But it turned out that the horse brought along 12 young horses.

Just when the situation looked good to others, the farmer’s son broke his leg because of training the 12 young horses. It became a tragedy to many people’s eyes.

Who will ever expect this unfortunate event to enable the son to be exempted from the army and save him from dying in the war.

The result of the story is quite unexpected, isn’t it?

And how is this story relate to the topic I am going to share with you today?

I would like to share with you : The Power of Choice.

We can look at things/ situations at many angles.

Some will say : In life, we have no choice.

Let me give you an example :

As a student : We have to make sure we study hard and do well so that we can earn a lot of money in future

As an adult : We have to make sure we work hard so that we can live a good life, provide for our family and earn the respect of others.

Question :

So Chilmi / Tshering : Do you think we have the choice to decide what we want to do in life? Why and why not?

There are things we have to learn to embrace it.

 Things that we cannot get to choose : Parents, country we are born in, no of hours we have a day.. We embrace it. And love it.

 But there are also many things we can get to choose.

 Let me share my ordinary yet extraordinary life story with you.

 If I am to chart my life journey now,  I can proudly say I have come to the middle of my life journey.

 And when I looked back to my own life, I thank my God for moulding and building me as who I am.

I do not regret every single day I live and I set this to be my life principle that if I am going to die now, I will have no regrets.

I held this principle since the day 9 Sept 2001. Can anyone of you tell me what so special about 9 Sept 2001?

It was the day where the Twin Tower in New York city was attached by the 2 aircrafts hijacked by the terrorists.  About 3000 Americans died within a single day.

That was the year when the world was reeled with the problem of terrorist attack and it still is.

The thing that really strike me was the news report of the victims who called their loved ones and told them how much they love each other, few seconds before they died.

It had a lot of impact on me because it dawned upon me,  how often do I take the trouble and time to tell my loved ones how much I love them,  before it becomes too late?

Dec 2004 : The killer Tsunami and various disasters followed.

These series of world events helped me to realize the fragility of life and made me change my life course.

From then on,  my principle of life is : Live everyday to the fullest, with the guide of my Scouting Principles : Responsibility towards self, others (friends, family and country) and God

I made a few important choices in my own life :

I made the usual choice of studying hard, go to university, come out to the society to work. Everything runs very smoothly for me.

But I am not contented with my ordinary life because I believe that we have the power of choice. So at the 3rd year of my career, I asked my school principal to let me go on a 55 days ASEAN Youth Exchange Programme. I asked and my leave was granted. I was on a full paid leave, visited the 8 ASEAN countries and interacted with the youths and stayed with them in the big ship. I made a choice

In 2006 : And that is at my 13th year of my teaching career, I was given a choice to switch my academic teaching to non-academic teaching. I was offered to go into outdoor education full time without compromising my salary.

It is a difficult choice to some teachers because outdoor education is a total new and unattempted option to many teachers. It may be difficult for me to go back into teaching if I am to go to other school to teach. I may have forgotten my content knowledge over the years and it’s difficult for me to become a full fledged teacher again.

I did pretty well in my school and I opened new grounds for my school. My school obtained the niche status of Outdoor Education in 2012. In Singapore, every government school has the autonomy of deciding their own niche programme and use the niche programme for the character development of the students.

In 2007 : I became very tired and drained due to the demand of outdoor camps and expedition during the whole year. I made another important choice. I took 1 year unpaid leave to study an outdoor course in New Zealand.

This is again another unpopular choice to many. I may have lost out to my contemporary in the career advancement. I would have been a head of department by now if I continue the path as an academic teacher.

But a choice is a choice right? I took this path.. And it led me to another choice.

In 2009, I went back to academic teaching and I was given a choice to do research in the Ministry of Education. I went to school 3 days a week and MOE 2 days to do my research.

In 2010 – 2013  : Again, I went back to school to start new programme on Environment Education and Value Education.

In Jan 2014 : I resigned from my teaching career and now here I am, in Bhutan, enjoying the time with the staff and students of RHSS.

It is an unnatural path to many. Many would want to find a new job before resigning from the current ones. Some find that I am very stupid because I throw away my own iron rice bowl.

But a choice is a choice. You should never see things at it’s face value. By making this choice, other opportunities opened up to me and that’s how life is all about.

That’s the power of choice.

Don’t mistaken me at this juncture :

I am not encouraging you to quit your studies now to pursue what you want in life.

My next point is : The power of choice must come with the responsibility towards yourself, others and God.

Whatever decision I made in my life : I do make sure that I fulfilled my responsibility towards my family and God, and what I hope to achieve at different point of my life.

You need to make sure you are wise enough to make the right choice and not letting yourself or anyone down with the decision you made.

It is the attitude you hold towards the choice.

How many of you have heard from your friends saying :

I have no choice !! The bus came late, that’s why I am late for school!!

I have no choice !! My house is so noisy, I cannot study, that’s why I did not do well!!

I have no choice, there’s so much to study. That’s why I failed.

I have no choice. This year, the students are so naughty and don’t study at home, that’s why the class performance is so poor.

It’s not that you have no choice, it is : you choose the convenience of putting the blame on situation or others so that you can get away from the consequences.

Whenever you say you have no choice, you are depriving yourself an opportunity to overcome the problem and make yourself a better and wiser person.

Do not let the “no choice” mentality shortchange what God can do for you.

Always remember the power of choice. A choice to make a difference in your own life and other people’s lives. When you exercise this power of choice, you realize that new opportunity comes to you and you will never live a day of life in vain.

For a start, let’s remember to embrace everyday with a positive attitude.

Never say die, never give up on any difficulty you encounter. But say : Yes I can !!

31 March - 7 April


Psalm 127:1 :

“Unless the Lord builds the house, its builders labor in vain

Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchmen stand guard in vain”.

This is my verse for the week.

I can plan everything I want, but if God does not watch over me, I labor in vain.

I learn to recognize my limitations and reliance upon God.

A thankful heart, a heart of gratitude helps me to live each day with His joy.

God provided 2 more angels for me this week : Madam Sita and Madam Budhawanti

Though they are in the management team, they are very unpresumptuous and supportive of my work.

Madam Sita volunteered her room to let me “experiment” on group work for the PD session on Saturday.

In one of my lesson observations, I had a teacher who did the “drilling” technique with her class. A definition was repeated at least 7 times together with the class to ensure the students remember the important definition.

The intention was clear, the students must learn the definition by hard.

I fully understand the importance of rote-learning as I was also brought up in the generation of “rote-learning.”

Rote-learning has its value in an examination system that needs students to reproduce the answer word by word and phrase by phrase.

It was also important that I brought the awareness to the teacher that human brain does not form “long term memory” if the learner cannot grasp the concept by understanding it. There will be no synaptic plasticity no matter how many times the students recite the definition by hard. In a long run, we are not preparing students that can meet the global needs of the society.

After saying that, I am also aware that unless the current examination system encourages learning by understanding, it will be an uphill task to change the mindset of teachers.

I empathized with what the teacher shared and assured her that she was doing a good job. She just has to be mindful that human mind does not work in the way she wants it to be.

During the week, I was reminded by Pinkey (the general office staff) to come up with some inspirational quotes for the library decoration. There will be an important event at the end of this week : The Annual Principals’ Conference. All Thimpu principals will be attending the conference in the library on 4 April.

I did some research and consulted Mr Tshering and Dr Wang who happened to be around. They have other ideas for the library decoration.

I helped Namgay to clean up the library, together with her group of students. I was very impressed by the students’ work attitude. What made them so unique was : they did their jobs with a smile. It was a tough job because some of them had to climb up to clean some of the windows.

During the week, I got to understand the function of the health room in the school. It is the sick bay in Singapore context. Students have to report to Ms Namgay if they are sick.

So not only is Namgay in charge for the library, she is also in charge for the sick students in RHSS. It is really tough managing 2 portfolios if it is for me.

Dr Wang is usually around on Wednesday or Thursday. He personally oversees the cleaning process in the library. Within 2 days, the library was transformed. I was very impressed by the number of books available in the library. Many books were brought in by the students through 1 contest : “Outweigh Dr Wang Contest” where students have to bring as many books as possible to outweigh the amount of books brought in by Dr Wang. The winning class was given a treat by Dr Wang. Dr Wang really has the heart for the school. 

I was tasked to deliver a speech on Wednesday morning assembly. I chose the topic : “The Power of Choice”. The speech was well-received by both the staff and the students.

I was invited to join in the staff basketball competition against the sports captain on Thursday. I decided to decline the invitation and keep to the meeting scheduled for the student leaders.

The kids were really punctual and on task. I am glad the meeting is becoming a routine for them. Empowering them to lead the troop is the objective and dream of every scout teacher. Gelson and Pinkie will be trained to lead the group.

A total of about 32 principals of Thimphu schools turned up for the Annual Principals’ Conference on 4 April. I was quite happy to be an observer in the conference.
      
Unfortunately most of them spoke in Dzongkha, so my takeaway was quite limited. I was thankful that the lady proprietor, Madam Sonam, acted as my translator though. The Guest of Honor was the Thimphu District Mayor. Being able to meet him and speak to him in person was another honour. 

As the needs of the private and government schools are different, it is little wonder to hear comments from school principals that the conference should be structured in such a way that the timing and sessions for government and private school principals should be separate. 

Besides the lady official who presented the school health matter in English, Mr Tshering was the only one who spoke in English during the whole conference. Many issues were brought up and it was quite interesting to see how principals talked things out. The conference ended 1 hour later than what was scheduled. My experience in RHSS was indeed a very enriching one.

Over the week, I became very good in the “guessing” game, be it in the  principals’ conference or the scout leader’s training in HQ. And I guessed it right most of the time.

The venue of the 2nd PD session was set to be in a classroom and it was deliberate. It is important that the RHSS teachers are able to relate their takeaways and bring it back into their daily teaching routines.

I delivered a 15 minutes session of Economics lesson and invited the Economics teachers to be my observers. The objective of micro-teaching sessions was to try out the learner-centered lessons in a safe environment and allowed peers to share the learning. It was inevitable that the Economics teachers will focus on the concepts delivery instead of the PD objectives since they are the Economics teacher.

Mr Tshering came in after I completed my micro-teaching. He needed to attend to the students first since there was morning assembly and basketball finals on Saturday.

English micro-teaching was conducted by Mr KD Yeshey. He used powerpoint, markers, A3 paper and masking tape.

I could see a lot of time and effort invested into the lesson preparation and I was glad that the department supported him.  

Some departments embraced group work and some were still hesitant. I was not surprised by the outcome and can only do the ploughing work. It will take some time for the teachers to buy in my ideas and move out of the comfort zone.

I stayed on for the afternoon scout meeting, only to realize there was a clash in the venue. The basketball final for boys division was still on when the scout meeting started.

Due to the large number of scouts, I had no choice but to settle the kids at the car-park at 12.30 pm and later shifted them down to the library while waiting for the basketball finals to end.

By the time I joined the groups of 4 teachers at the Ministry of Youth and Sports, it was already at 3 pm. They were discussing methods of finding their way if they were lost in the wilderness. Nice.

I introduced an action song with the scout leaders : “The side” and they simply loved it.

We were dismissed at about 5 pm and we set off for the Thai teachers’ apartment an hour away from the scout training venue. By the time we reached the apartment, it was already 6.15 pm.

The Thai teachers are really good cook. We had a feast of Thai delicacy and had a great time together. I realized that Thais are generally very warm people and they enjoy gathering together and have fun.
 
I had less than 50 ml of local red wine (Takin) that evening and my whole face was red like a red indian. It was only 16% alcohol content !!

I ended the week with another day of scout programme.

Spirituality is an important part of every Bhutanese. And one lecture was specially dedicated to “Scouting and Religion”.

The adult leaders had a test on the scouting fundamentals immediately after lunch.

We had 2 skills session on that day : “Knots and Hike”.

Prior to the hike, the scout leaders were brought to one of the nearby venue to receive blessings from one of the reputed Dharma, Tang Rinpoche. According to Ugyen, it was one of the rare occasion that the Dharma will come to the town. That was also the reason why the scout training programme was temporarily disrupted to cater to the Dharma’s visit.

The hike started at about 3.30 pm and ended at 5.30 pm after a debrief session. The “4 beads” leader trainer, Mr Pema, was a very experienced scouter and I learnt a lot from him.

The groups were dispatched in patrols and they were guided by the known trail signs marked by red markers. This will not happen in Singapore because the marking of trail signs on the lamp posts will be considered vandalism of public property and it constitutes a fine.

The whole hike did not require any navigation skills. We just had to follow the trail signs and did some activities during the hike. We had fun and I learnt some Bhutanese yells (cheers) and scout “punishment”. It was really cool.

After the scouting training, we walked to the vegetable market. We were really exhausted after the 2 full days’ of activities.

We took a cab back after all the shopping and treated ourselves pizza for dinner before we rested for the night.

I am thankful that the friendship between myself, Tandin, Ugyen, Karma and Kelzang was forged through scouting. Be it due to scouting or work, we were brought together through a common purpose : to give our young a wholesome education.

My video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl1sPXLFs1k&feature=youtu.be