1) When my one (male) (Tibetan) coworker found out he got the visa to emigrate to my city, his friends told him that he was going to live in the big city and party all the time, and all the time when they talk by phone, they ask him how many parties he's been to.
2) One of my (female) (Tibetan) coworkers was born in India, and her parents ran a small (Tibetan) restaurant in the village that they lived in. She said the clientele was mostly (Indian), since they can't cook (Tibetan) food at home, and so it was the one place they could go to go and eat something different, like noodles and dumplings.
"Some Indian food was on the menu, too," she was like.
She also said that her parents would make some (Indian) food at home for themselves, but always with less spices than (Indians) make (Indian) food.
"So many spices!", she was like.
3) One of my other (female) (Tibetan) coworkers was very disturbed the other evening when a resident passed away.
"They took away the body so soon," she was like. "Only three hours."
We talked a bit more, and she said that Tibetans leave the body alone for 24 hours before taking it away, so that the soul can realize that it's dead and has time to find its way out of the body.
So, she didn't come out and say it, but she was very very worried about the soul of the person who died, that they wouldn't have the proper time to transition normally and so something off would happen. She was so stricken, you could see it on her face, that's how worried she was. It was very visceral for her, this tradition.
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