In and Around Saint Stephen's School , Loly Goon

Out for a Walk

Goats are used for Milk,Cheese and Meat.

Meat is only eaten on Special Occasions.

Photo taken on the Forest path leading

down from the Village of Loly Goon

to St. Stephen's School.

Bud ah Statute situated in the Village Square in Loly Goon
Many of the Hill People are Buddhist.

Oxen used to plough the fields for planting
prior to the start of the Monsoon season.

The terrain is very hilly.

A beautiful view of Kanchenjunga, at 6am,

from the front of St Stephen's School.

A Saturday Nature Ramble in Loly Goon

Outside the Hostel

Posing for my Picture

What have I found?

The children, of one of the hostels for St. stephen's School in Loly Goon, and I decided to have an outing to a nearby forest which had been developed to attract visitors.

We set out for the forest about 10am on a Saturday morning , taking along with us, a plastic bag to collect different spieces of leaves and wild flowers in. We also had a big bottle of water, 2 apples cut up into small pieces, a few plain saltine biscuits,some raisins and 2 sweeties each, for our lunch.

We had a wonderful day out,and the children and I had learned many new words, the children English words and me the Nepali word for many of the different trees, plants and insects we had seen.

In the evening we made a collage with the leaves and flowers and Miss Susan, the teacher who ran the hostel told us the names of some of the flowers and from which tree some of the leaves had come.

St. Stephen's School Concert Loly Goon

Getting ready for a Nepali Dance Routine

Infants ready to go on stage "Fruits of The Earth"

I want to share a few photos with you from St Stephen's School Concert.

St. Stephen's concert took place a few days after the one at St. Joseph's, Git Dubling.

The staging was built and erected by the parents of the pupils who live in the village, two days prior to the date of the concert, so that the children could have a full rehearsal on the day before the concert. All went well at the rehearsal.

That night, the night prior to the big day, we had a terrible storm and the stage and the tarpaulin covered in area for the visitors, was completely demolished.

The villagers turned out in mass at 5am, first light, to start building again. All was ready for the first visitors arriving at 10am. The concert did not get started until 11.30am as many of the visitors coming from further afield, had had to walk along very wet and muddy pathways.

The concert went well ,much to the relief of the staff and pupils of St. Stephen's. And the visitors all appeared to enjoy their day out.