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歌手：蔡健雅
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日期：06/12 ~ 06/16
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Sun was in my eyes by 6am. Quiet neighborhood started filling up with car horns and motor sounds. My room looks out to an empty land plot and thereafter a few Indian huts. My neighbors are all office workers. Looks like I’m the only yoga student here. Oh well. Landlord Arun came around to give me directions. Very nice jovial guy. Had a very hearty laugh which I liked. Something about being in India just naturally puts a smile onto your face, somehow you just want to be friendly to everyone. Maybe it’s because you are so aware of the poverty that you can’t help but to smile to hopefully cheer someone up. Took a little walking tour around my neighborhood. Made my conclusion. Cows rule the road. Even goats. They would just graze in the middle of some road circus oblivious to the traffic. Haven’t found anything that excited me yet. Have already walked to the shala just out of curiosity. Looked like some typical house from the outside.
Went to shala at 4.30pm. Went into a dark office where guruji was doing registration. Was still figuring out what I felt seeing the guru for the first time. He looks exactly like how I expected. I thought I would be overwhelmed..but I was more intrigued by the number of gold jewellery he had on including his huge gold rolex watch. Filled up my form in silence trying to keep it casual and friendly. Then an awkward moment came when I paid him the 26900 roops. Money counting machine kept getting stuck at the 39th note..so had to count manually. It was right but when he counted it was still 39. So we counted together and then it turned out to be the right number of notes. But boy…what a start.
My best time of today turned out to be the evening when I came back to the house and started chatting with the watchman and Pavi, the house assistant. Very pretty 21 years old girl who told me she was a year away from getting married through arranged marriage. Said that it was by tradition that a girl of 22 years must get married. Arun came by and we started chatting too. Very helpful bunch of people. Lesson learnt: a smile and friendliness go a long way. I feel like I genuinely made good connections with the local people. Yay. I guess India’s not so scary after all.
Asked to go to shala at 630am tomorrow. Whoo hoo. Excited. Just about 8 more hours to go.
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♛人氣指數：♛♛♛
❤愛的鼓勵：❤❤ |
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