And what a day it was! We had 150 people show up, a huge number by Spiti standards. This was about five times the people that we were prepared to host, and fifteen times of our average daily footfall.
Most of them were children, who started showing up in groups an hour before the opening time. Some of them joined us for prayers, which were offered by young monks from Kaza Monastery (some of these monks are also members of our library). They stayed hours browsing through books and enjoyed the little treat on offer, of pasta and juice.
The team was a bunch of very exhausted people at the end of the day. We were tired to the bone, but so, so happy that everyone who had come had left smiling. I shed literal tears of joy.
Sharing my favourite photo of the day – of the impromptu reading that I did before the (happy) chaos started. It was a story of a princess who finds her own happiness 