Day 14

Alice is from England and is visiting Manjushri with her Mum and sister, Daisy. She is loving the Festival particularly as she gets to make new friends.

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My name is Alice and I am four and this is what Summer Festival is like for me.
I like it here cos people are kind and nice and want to be friends. Mornings are good cos Mummy brings me and my big sister, Daisy, breakfast in our tent. I like having a little packet of butter and choosing jam or honey and opening them and doing my own spreading on my bread roll.

We are camping in the children’s field and I like playing with my friends and going to their tents and the children’s marquee. My favourite things there were glueing gems onto the children’s banner and facepainting (I was a dalmation, dragon and a clown). I thought they were going to throw a bucket of water on me but it was confetti, which was a funny trick and made me laugh a lot. I also like going to the tuck shop and today, at the other shop, I saw a picture of Tara and a nice lady gave me a chocolate.

I like going to the garden where there is fairy treasure and a tiny pond that Daisy paddled in when we were playing. My friend, Reece, takes us on brilliant shoulder rides around there.

One night I was allowed to stay up late and went to the Temple with Tubchen and it was evening. We made wishes I wished to have the stabilisers off my bike and Tubchen wished for everyone to be happy. And then we took Tsog back to Mummy and had a midnight feast. I felt grown up.

I am very tired from playing when the sun goes down, and sometimes I am sad when it’s too noisy to sleep at night. But when I do get to sleep, it feels all lovely in my warm sleeping bag, cuddling my best teddy.

I will come back next year, I will.