The farmers in the community are planting money and I am planting beauty these days. I mean they are planting cardamom and I am planting privet hedges and a couple of flowers. Surely in three to four years the farmers will pocket in hefty cash and I will embrace the beauty of my hard work if i will be here. 
      I am not sure whether all the privet hedges I am planting will survive or not.  Although the privets are among fast growing bushes, there are numerous factors that hindering their growth.  In the first place,  I am doubtful whether my way of planting is technically correct or not.  I am not aware about the technical aspect of growing this plant.  However I have seen the plants well developed in other places especially at educational centres.  And I was very fortunate to see a gardener in Gelephu HSS maintaining hedges last winter when I was there on invigilation duty.  The gardener advised me that it would be better if we raise nursery of the plants first. Here I am following his suggestion that I asked my children to collect a good number of snack covers and fill them with a fertile soil.  Then I clip the aged plants and plant them in the washed snack wrappers.  I keep them under the peach tree canopying the water tap beside my residence.  I water them regularly and make sure that they receive mild sun for their proper growth.
     My last weekend was spent on planting the privets in the new cub park I am developing for the school.  The nursery plants I am raising patiently will replace those which will not survive as a result of stamping by children and of course as a result of not receiving required nutrients and care from my side.  I have urged my students to be mindful not to stamp their feet while visiting the park.  I am dreaming of my present project to be a source of delight to both outsiders and insiders. 
     Slowly and steadily the park of my dream is coming into shape with encouraging support from my colleagues and children.  I have deputed the two cooks to build a miniature house quintessentially kheng in nature.  But they have come up with an average peoples height house which still is fit for the park.  With the people shifting towards concrete buildings in the name of improved living standards typical kheng house build out of naturally available materials such as bamboo, wood and cane will walk out of this community,  I think.  So my modest dream to have a miniature kheng house in the school campus may act as a model house in some years to come if it survives the scrutiny of future leaders and faculty of this school. Sustainability of my miniature house is still at risk with the central schools pulling all the children in the community.  However i am still positive that the school area would fall in the hands of good in charge who would let beauties in the school area enthrall everyone.  Markus wild,  a swiss photographer who had been here in this community a couple of years back developed a special affinity for the typical kheng house.  He was enthralled by the naturally sourced house that he loved to sleep and dine in the thatched houses than in those concrete house.  I had special moment of making excursion with Markus in some of the remote villages in this community during which i have learnt his interest in typical kheng house. One as a teacher and other as a foreigner, we would be showered with best of the hospitalities in every village we visit.  So the people would prefer us to sleep and dine in concrete houses with the hope to treat us with speciality but Mr Markus would decline the offers favoring huts and local drinks and cuisines.   His great affinity and admiration towards the typical kheng house was engraved and immortalised on the cover page of the book he coauthored 'Bhutan's Cultural Diversity' with a spectecular picture of a typical kheng house in Pongchaling. 
      With monsoon approaching,  the rains are getting heavier and heavier.  The start of heavy rainfall coincided with my planting of hedges and flowers.  I don't have to water the plants regularly.  The timely rain is surely a blessing for the flowers in the school.  And of course for the people's cardamon. 
     May farmers pocket in hefty cash out of their sweats in planting cardamoms while people whoever would be around embrace the beauty I and my friends are planting in the school.