There's hardly one day like another; too many flights (on average one every 2½ days) and car or train rides make a regular schedule impossible, as well as unexpected dates like visiting a new center, a radio or newspaper interview, a conference or an important project meeting with some students.

But when he happens to be traveling in one area for a a few days, his schedule on any of those days could look a bit like this:

[ 10:00 ] [ 12:00 ] [ 14:00 ] [ 18:30 ] [ 18:45 ] [ 19:45 ] [ 01:00 ] [ 02:30 ] [ 04:00 ]
After getting up: there's usually a breakfast with friends from the center who didn't have to go to work. Depending on the center and the day of the week there's either a meeting with the 6-8 most active students or a big breakfast with up to 40 people taking part.
 
The work continues. On the phone with Hannah or the Lamas in India, and answering huge stacks of letters from students around the world. The only alternative: working on a new manuscript or an article for a newspaper.

During the work more calls: students and friends of Lama Ole who organize and work in the centers as volunteers have questions or plans to make. Some of them also want personal advice: He always takes time for the people who actually manage to get through to him.
 
Time to leave. The bags are packed again. Everybody says good-bye and then the fully packed BMW is off to the next lecture in the next city. Lama Ole loves to drive himself but usually uses the time to write or read his favorite newspapers like "The Herald Tribune". The routes aren't actually planned to be as short as possible, longer drives give them more time to work uninterrupted.
 
Hopefully an arrival on time (without any traffic jams) at the new center. The huge bags are carried up to the rooms which have been cleared out for them. There are only three centers - Copenhagen, Schwarzenberg and San Francisco - where Hannah and Ole have their own room where they can store their things and change their luggage for the coming months.
 
Dinner with friends at the center. After that, if possible, a fifteen minute break.
 
Leaving for the lecture hall. The lecture takes about 1½ hours, with about an hour for questions and answers afterwards. Depending on the city there are between 200 and 2000 people there. After that there's a fifteen minute break before Lama Ole explains the Buddhist refuge.

Those who want to can take part in this ritual, after that there's a guided meditation. All together that takes about 1½ hours. Finally, if the hall is open long enough, everyone can come up to Lama Ole and get blessed by a silver relic-box or "gow", filled with relics of all the former Karmapas, a gift from the 16th Karmapa. That usually takes an hour, often longer.
 
Return to the center. All the people who helped organizing the lecture hang out together for a beer. Of course Tomek, Hannah or Caty and Lama Ole join them. They chat about news in and around "The Buddhist World", tell personal stories, have a little snack. Sometimes there's also a meeting with all the helpers at the center, to talk about the structure of their work with Lama Ole or clear up any disagreements.
 
Lama Ole draws back a little to work uninterrupted. The phone is quiet, the stream of visitors slows. It´s time for the letters and the approximately 80 e-mails per day, the manuscript or articles for magazines (e.g. "Buddhism Today") again.
It´s also a good time to make overseas phone calls.
The end of the day is in sight: Powering up for another day.
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