We are at 7100 feet and on the side of and towered by magnificent snow covered peaks. Eagles, hawks, vultures, crows are always visible in the air or swooping to the ground just yards from where you stand. Occasional groups of black-leathered faced Langer monkeys pass by, leaping between trees and onto rooftops. It is a veritable children's village with little obvious adult intervention or supervision and the finest children to children and children to adult relationships we have ever seen. The Studio We have been given a three-story building to base our studio in.
Students arrive early and rush in as the doors open.
The top floor is dedicated to the study of the black necked crane. Twenty students are drawing, writing, viewing maps, studying crane pictures. No one says they cannot draw. They focus incredibly well on their work. Two walls are completely covered with cranes which children have been drawing.