A severe case of the randoms...

You people are in for a treat, because when a case of the randoms happens in Lhasa it is always severe:

• A pudgy old man on the bus complete with cowboy hat (sans feather sadly) and orange plastic bag full of boiled chicken feet to munch on spitting the nails out onto the bus floor.
• Ladling out gallons of fresh butter tea to the local nuns to drink with lunch is harder work than it looks.
• "Sangeh la gah kah lab" It's like teaching Buddha the alphabet.
  
• Passing by an electronics shop front only to glance inside and see the lone employee using an ab hula hoop.
  
• The utter shock on my student's face when I admit to her that I don't have any MSG.
  
• The pleasure of the smell of freshly popped popcorn in contrast to the near constant smell of urine.
  
• A student who opens up the umbrella to use while sitting in the bus explaining, "umbrellas are for rainy, sunny, and slowly".
  
• Using a precarious squatty potty with a fantastic view of the entire city of Lhasa with a nun friend. Three holes available and she chose the one directly next to mine, that's a thigh touching bonding experience.
• The horrid low drum beats and distorted moanings of a group of monks chanting scriptures.
  
• The song "Dearly loved" by Jimmy Needham blessedly replacing the continuous soundtrack of "Take me to your heart" by Michael Learns to Rock.
  
• Seeing a Chinese colleague of mine swing a bag of sheets around his head while imitating another colleague's style of dance in the middle of the street.
  
• Da pan ji (big bowl of chicken) = delicious. Boiled rice, raisins, and yak butter = not so much.
• Changing "rooms" in clothing shops more accurately described as openings under the stairs with a shielding curtain and no light or mirror. If you look ridiculous you've got to come out into the open to find out.
  
• "Rangla goobeh yunden teh, nyima rela tsik rje sung, kangshe nin gya songwah na, tsik gya malu contu chu": Tibetan proverb meaning, "if you learn one word in one day, one hundred days will pass and you will know one hundred words".
  
• Chinese fashion, only in Asia is double pretty acceptable.
  

Oh people there's more... this is severe...