age 13
Each summer Sadjat spends three months in the high pastures of Askole. He likes going to the pasture. His tasks there are important: He tends to his family's goats, sheep, yak and dzo. It takes him about an hour to walk to the pasture. Sadjat's mother, brothers, and sisters stay in the village. The animals up at the pasture are his responsibility. When he's not watching the animals he plays soccer with other boys or slides on the big rock near the pasture huts. A lot of the other villagers move up to the pasture for the summer, it's kind of like a smaller version of home.