Tag: mobile phones

  • First Days Outside the Monastery #7 – My First Mobile Phone

    First Days Outside the Monastery #7 – My First Mobile Phone

    During my years in the monastery many things in the world outside were rapidly advancing and changing. When I entered the monastery, mobile phones were those huge clunky things about the size of a brick, with a large antenna sticking out the top. Only the upper class elite could afford to own one. I think…

  • First Days Outside the Monastery #3 – Mobile Phones

    First Days Outside the Monastery #3 – Mobile Phones

    I knew that mobile phones had become more popular during my stay in the monastery but I hadn’t realised just how much they were part of everyday life. Having got on to the train which would carry me away from Skanda Vale and into my new life, I settled down in my seat expecting a…