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| UpDate from La India.... |
| 05.03.04 (7:25 am) [edit] |
Hellloooo out there.
So Yes I am staying in India for a month.
This is soo crazy....
Right now I am in Dharamsala, Northern India.. the name of the actual city is called McLeod Ganj. I have changed guesthouses many times but I now live in a place called the Hotel Lotus Leaf on Jogibara Rd.
My little room gives me the most beautiful view of the little Himalayas and all the little villages cropping up in the mountains… In my old place I didn't have a bathroom and I have to walk 3 floors down to a rickety one that offers bone cracking cold showers and its pretty cold up in these mountains, but I just remedy that by, eww- not showering too often.
I got a better place for a dollar more! Now I pay 3 dollars a night I have the most breathtaking view of the mountians with snow at the top.
My DAYsssss
I wake up and do yoga on the school's roof top watching the mountains every day at 7 or 9 in the morning.
Then I get some lunch and read or write a little.
Then I hike up the mountains with one of my friends
IT is soooo hard to hike up these mountains- everywhere you go you are walking up steep mountains - It makes you feel so alive!!- its a surprise the cars make it up but they do!!.. They make their houses out of this sliver stone cut out of the mountains.
I have met many goodhearted people.
Today I hiked to the Dalai Lama's Buddhist temple in the morning with a Tibetan friend-- Then ate lunch and then hiked to the top of the mountain to a Hindu temple-
I went the highest I have ever been and the view from up their was beautiful--We played with goats that live in the mountain and they have restaurants all up the mountains for you to drink this great sweet tea called Chai or water or food. Then you keep going up and up...
Today I also went to this beautiful waterfall in Bagksu.
So I hike the mountains and sip tea and get exercise all day- then I go back by my hotel and down the street and sleep so nicely...
I am teaching English to a lovely Tibetan woman named Llamu Dolma, which means gold in Tibetan, and I am learning Tibetan language from this broad face pure soul and pure hearted innocent Tibetan boy I met at the Momo Cafeי named Tenzen Tashi which means "Oceans of Love" he exhaled sweetly to me the day I met him.
What an interesting language, listen to just the meaning of the names and you might see why…
I soon enough found an amazing Reiki Master to teach me the art of positive energy love healing through the palms of my very hands- and YOGA
As always I send all of you this knowledge and love and peace, for you all are me, me you, as I animate your spirits and what you have taught me and mean to me each second. Thank you.
Email is crazy slow and I have been far away from such things lately…
My Reiki Master’s name is Hari Rishi. He has incredible spiritual power and has taught me many things, slowly…as I can not relate all the details of the intense experiences I have been having- the reason why he is teaching me slowly is the same reason why I can come only close to explaining some of what has been happening to me by asking you to recall what happens when you try to look at the midday sun…
Many things here I hope I can soon sit and tell you slowly often give me this something out of my seat, almost unnerving yet harmless and necessary flutter in my chest – a feeling like a Could this be? blindness yet seeing a glimpse of all while looking into the lights manifest in the people and things around me. So what up people? Sorry for all this deep shit, oh you know me. Its still me…
I am still teaching, my passion, I am still hiking in nature, another, I am still chilling out with Spaniards, people from all over the world and practicing my mother’s native tongue as well as other languages- and laughing and loving and keeping my head and my shit together feet on the ground, just growing roots deeper into is all ….aight!!!
My teacher Hari has brought me to visit his family and they are such nice people. I helped them cook fresh Indian bread called chipati on an open fireplace that reminded me of PA and my beautiful family. Even though I don’t understand Hindi, I understood when they laughed at me for my lack of chipati rolling skills, and I am learning some Hindi and some sanskrit which is very difficult and slow going- but a great exchange for my teaching English, you know. Hari has showed me the great face Westerners often can not see on the Indian people, by showing me family life and introducing me to his friends who work around here. no other words for now- I am speechlesssss............
For now I have to run more later!!
Much love and peace to you all! Andrea
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posted by: lockwoman (reply)
post date: 05.05.04 (4:22 am)
you make me want to go to India, soudns amazing... I still hope to get to Nepal, but who knows... I'm getting a bit tired of the heat.
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