June 10th, 2009 Junipers Concert at Lopez School and Uma and Sirus.

Today is Wednesday and Juniper had a concert at school. I ate dinner with Juniper’s parents yesterday. I saw Juniper practiced music and she has two different flutes and she showed me how to play that flute. Then she said “tomorrow I will have a concert in school” when I was talking to her. She was very different from last year. I understood because her parents and Edi, they use a lot time for her education. At 10:30 I went to school to Juniper’s concert, the concert was in the school music room. There were not a lot people. Mostly kids parents and some another young kids came there. Juniper played music with Uma . Music teacher Lisa she told them the music tempo and tone and sometimes they played with another two kids. They are very young 6 years old. But they are understood how to play flute. They played very good. After the concert some people asked some kids “why do you want to study flute and how was the your concert and did you make a mistake?” people waited for their answer and gave many times for kids. Then a woman gave to teacher Lisa big flowers. I took some photos of Sirus and other kids. I talked to Sirus a little and he can sing my song. I saw in the music room a lot of different instruments. I am really happy Juniper likes to play some instruments. Also I am really happy her parents and grandpa and grandma. They came to support to her. I am surprised, because she is six years old and that concert was only thirty minutes. But people thought that is important we have to go see her concert. Wow. I remember when I was young my education. Not good, anyway. Here I saw their maney different education of three years. I thought I can’t live in the U.S.A. I must go to Tibet and I will work for some school.

June 08th, 2009 I went to Seattle and Lopez Island.

I woke up at 6:00 am, Cedar Bough helped me carry my stuff. We went to LAX airport mostly with many very heavy books. Also I had my instrument, a Bouzouki, it is very big. In the airport many people asked me “is that a banjo” I said “No this is Karley, my bouzouki but next year I will want to buy a banjo and I like banjo” They said “yes banjos sound very good” at 8:20 I flew to Seattle and all the seats were full. I arrived in Seattle at 11:30 and I ate a good lunch at the airport. At 12:20 I got to the shuttle bus and Maya Borhani got the bus, too. On the bus we talked all the way. She went to many plans with her group performance for around ten days. After two hours we got to the ferry and went to Lopez Island. My mother-in-law (Edi) waited for me at the ferry landing. Maya’s daughter came to the ferry landing. Then we went to the market and I bought a lot of food and when we went home Edi asked me about my family in Tibet and she said “Supper at 7:00pm.” After I cleaned my small house I went to Edi’s home and ate dinner together. She made very good food and a little dessert she said “Gregg and Irene went to Seattle they will come back tomorrow” after dinner Zack and Irene and their daughter Juniper came to my house to hug me and say hello. They said “Karjam we want to have dinner tomorrow night at our home together” Then I went to Irene Skyriver’s garden. Gregg made a new gate and the garden changed a lot. Wow Lopez here is really good all the way are green and quiet and I can listen to bird songs

June 7th, 2009 Professor Judys Party.

After at 5:00 we went to Professor Judy’s home for a party for the Indonesian teachers. A lot of people came to the party. But I know most of them. I talked to some friends and took a lot of photos and recorded video. There was a lot of food and different drinks and desserts because Judy invited two cooks. First Judy spoke about this program being successful she said “Thank you for the Indonesian teachers” then some teachers spoke about this class and all the teachers cried. But Sunardi didn’t cry and he still recorded video. Judy invited some professional dancers and drummers. After dinner some people played instruments and other people danced together. Philip played guitar and the teachers sang Indonesian songs. Judy had all the Indonesian instruments, a room full. Then Judy gave the teachers her presents and teachers gave Judy and her assistants presents. Also everyone brought a present for the Indonesian teachers. So they opened the presents and said “who gave this?” somebody said “That was what I gave” then they hugged and kissed on their face. It looked like Christmas presents, very funny

June 5th,2009 Professor Helen Rees and Musician Eunjung Cho.

In the afternoon professor Helen Rees gave a speech in the UCLA music building, I was a little late. There were some professors and some Ph.D. students there. I didn’t understand her speech very well. But I looked at her book and listened to the CD before. I heared many students wanted to listen to her speech. After her speech I talked with her about some of my ideas and how to save to traditional music and instruments. She told me some her ideas and she showed me a book. She said “ you need to buy this book” C.B. said “we already have that book.” Kate checked my blog she was surprised and she said “ Karjam you are doing really good and I like it” At 6:30 C.B. and I got the bus and went to a school and met Eunjung Cho and her two boys. She taught gayageum. Then we went to a good Korean restaurant. After we ate there was still a lot of meat. Eunjung said “Karjam that meat is all for you” But I really can’t eat more, I am full. Eunjung drove us home.

May 26th,2009 Familly visit us.

In the afternoon Irene and Juniper came to LA to visit us. They are from Lopez Island and they are our family. Also Irene's brother Frank and his two daughters Gracie and Gabriella. They wanted to visit us. Frank said "Gabriella wanted to visit Karjam" Riella likes me and she thinks I'm special. At 2:30 we met at UCLA and C.B. showed them her building and we watched some students dancing. Also we went to the music building and C.B. showed the instruments to the
girls. I met professor Helen Rees and her friend. We talked for five minutes and professor said " she is my good friend's daughter and also he is my teacher in China" Then we went to a good restaurant and ate lunch. After we went to the beach and Juniper gave me her art and Gabriella showed me her homework books she really wanted play with me and she think I’m interesting. Sometimes she looks like a boy when she does some things. Anyway that was just talk. I really wanted to walk to the beach with familly. But I had to go to UCLA for my class.

June 2nd, 2009 Finished all the Performances and last class party.

The Spring Festival of world Music and Jazz. May 16- June 2, 2009 today was the last performances in the festival. Wow.That was really good. There was many different kind of music and instruments from many contries. I watched fifteen different performances. I made a lot of videos and took photos of this festival of world music. I liked some traditional music and instruments .Because when I listen to their music I really want to lean some more and I want to buy some instruments. I think that was very sbecial. Now I need to buy one instruments every three years. Always after performances I talked with some musicions and some professors and singers. My group is the music of Bali Ensemble. I studied Indonesian Balinese music for three months. I really like professor Wenten, also he dances very well. Today was the last class of the
muisc of Bali Ensemble. So people brought some food and drink. We had a party in the muisc buiding. Some studen'ts asked professor Wenten " How did you and your wife meet for the first
time" professor told their his story and I sang two songs and danced one short dance.

May 24th, 2009 Old Topangga Canyon.

In the morning Karen came to our parking lot. She got us. We went to professor Buswell's house. One hour away. It was very beautifull and looks like an actor lives there. That house was on the mountain. We can see all the houses and some village below us. Some studants and professors brought a lot of food. Professor Buswell cooked meat. On that very beautiful land we ate lunch

very slowly. People talked so much. Also I talked to some professors we used Chinese, they teach Buddhism at UCLA. The weather was very good. After lunch everyone went hiking and professor Buswell's wife Christina lent us seven hats. She said "if you want use please get" then I got one hat, Christina said "that hat we bought in Tibet in 2005." Wow, I was surprised. When we were hiking Christina talked to me about her trip to Tibet. She really liked Tibet. She wants to travel to Tibet again. We took photos all together and then we came back. Buswell brought two big watermelons. That were very cold so everyone was happy to eat them. At 4:00 pm. We came back to the city.