Masters School China 2009

Today we visited our second farm. Fortunately, this farm did not require grueling work in the field, however, it did require something that I never thought I would do. We milked yaks. It was an interesting and sticky experience and it was also a lot of fun. From the milk, yak butter was produced and then any milk left over was turned into yak cheese. Personally, I like my yak cheese dry and without sugar. After we churned some butter, we went outside and played some futbol and an interesting Tibetan game. The Tibetan game consisted of a rope tied in a circle, two people, and two bells. The people playing put the rope through their legs and then around their necks and then got on the ground. the objective was to crawl to the bell and hit it with your head. All of us have scars on our necks to prove how awesome that game is. We eventually played some soccer with two teams and no goalies. Griffin and I picked teams and in the end, his team won 8-5. Griffin has 8 goals, I had 4, and Daniel had 1. But, if it wasn't for the Hebrew Hammer, Sam Tregar, my team would have won that game.

Mehran

*Note from Lin: The "scars" on our necks are temporary - no need to worry!