It had been a long time dream of mine to travel to Lhasa and go into the Potala Palace. My husband Maurice and I traveled to Bangkok for a Lions International Convention and I grabbed at the chance to visit Lhasa. But at that time, 2008, Tibet was closed to visitors, so I traveled to Nepal figuring that this might be a little like Tibet. Patti, Greg and I had a wonderful time in Nepal. We took books and school supplies and told our tour guide to find us a school. Every couple of days we would remind him that he needed to find us a school, any school, anywhere! With only one day left, Raj, our guide did better than find us a school, he took us to a Christian orphanage with about 200
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