a brief update

it's been another week, and this will be a telegraphic one, since i'm meeting frinds soon for a dinner at the japanese resturant (tuesday & friday are sushi days). the brief update is that generally i'm having the best time of my trip here. i have beautiful friends, beautiful residence, and beautiful daily routine. and i also try to eliminate the too high expectations i tend to have from the day to come and feel more thankful for the small things. the problems that the good things are sometimes too big, which increases the standards again.

i will start outlining my life here and continue tomorrow to revive the picture with more details. the daily schedule is an easy place to start.
from 9:00 to 11:30, after the morning chai at the peace cafe, i have an ashtanga (=power) yoga class, which is more physically intensive version of the rergular hatha yoga. it is a very good teacher, very expensive in indian terms - about 6$ per class, but there are 3 assitants around directing and adjusting every posture, and i am really progressing and getting more twisted then i thought i could ever be.

then there's a quick chai and tibetan cookie with the gang from the yoga - english sarah, with her wonderful positive energy, canadian martin/mendl/menachem - both have a great sense of humor, so we spend most of the time laughing (at least when i succeed to keep pace with their native-english slang), and shirley - a charming yoga wonder-girl (one of those things you gotta see to believe). then we have to rush up to bhagsu, which reminds me that i have to rush for dinner.

i'll continue soon.