Our A/C pooped out on us on Tuesday morning. The repair guys came today and said they'd have it fixed in two days, which usually means four or five knowing India Standard Time. They said they would try their best, I think they're good friends of the people who run the school. Plus, they saw all my mosquito bites and empathized. Other than that, today rocked. My hoopers are getting so good! We're practicing our dance and after the PT teacher left I changed the music to Michael Jackson and we had a hoop jam!
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| Our bamboo hoops that have been broken and retaped and broken and retaped. We are so blessed that the school just happened to have these around! |
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| Shared classrooms at the government school. |
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| After school kickboxing club. |
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| So today I taught the girls what it means to be a "Tree-Hugger." They were picking the leaves off the tree and throwing them at each other, and I was like, "Stop! You're hurting the tree. He just wants to be our friend! Look at all the nice cool shade he provides us. And oxygen!" And then I made them apologize and hug the tree, which they thought was totally strange but that's okay. |
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| We had a hoop jam after drill today and we were running around hooping to ABC by the Jackson 5. The other groups practicing around the playground got mad because we were making so much noise and forcing the entire playground to hear Jackson 5. I think they were just jealous of how much fun we were having... |
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| How many faces can you fit into one hoop? About as many as you can squeeze into a rickshaw. |
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| Hugging trees like good little hippies. |
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| Evangeline and Kamalia... I think those are their names. Ohh I have so many names to memorize. |
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| A couple of the girls from Seva Sadan who have also discovered where our room is. I showed them psytrance and this is what happened. |
mariah.
ReplyDeletei just got the chance to read your blog again after so long, and i miss you so much. i can almost hear your voice as i read these things. you have a BEAUTIFUL mind! im reading these posts and i cant help but feel the warm tears pool up in my eyelids. i am so so so so so proud of you and i am even more happy to have you in my life. seriously. this blog is so well written, i almost feel like i am there with you!
you sound wizened. i cannot express to you in words how much i love reading these blog posts. you are my best friend, my other third, and after reading these three most recent posts, an inspiration.
God. such an inspiration. i went back and re read all my blog posts from nepal, and i was so young... not just in age really but in mind. there is so much i wish i could have done differently with those young boys at the monastery... you are inspiring me to want to go back and pick up the threads of that fabric i was so quickly torn from with my illness. you are inspiring me to keep going even when i get frustrated with trying to explain to others what i am doing with my life. you inspire me to reach out and test my mental barriers. you inspired me to want to go to school again after two years. i feel like it is safe to say that i am here right now, being this person i am, because i have friends like you and angela. i have no idea where i would be with out you.
i love you miah poop, and im not sure when i will see you again, but i know i will. and i know that we wont even miss a beat.
"if you do what you love,
and you love what you do,
i will always be
the sun and moon to you."
This brightens my heart to hear. I've been learning so much, I'm glad I waited to have a good foundation in theory before I came, I've been able to learn so much more.
ReplyDeleteI have to come back and see my students or they'll never forgive me. I'm formulating another trip here two or three years down the road. Brock said he's down, my dad said he's down, and I'm hoping you and Angela realize how worth it this would be. I'm thinking at least two months of living out of backpacks. Train hopping through and living in ashrams and hotels. It would be super cheap and so much easier than I thought. I want to start in the Northeast and study in Nepal and see the culture of Bhutan. That's also near where my relatives live in Meghalaya. Traverse the Himalayas, stopping in Varanasi, circle around Kashmir and Delhi, down to Mumbai, Pune, Ajanta Caves, Goa, Kerala, Bangalore, Chennai, and everywhere in-between.
I'm sad that you left Madison without telling me first, and your wanderlust makes me uneasy. Trust your intuitions, not your impulses. I know you have a free spirit and you can't cage yourself in for too long, and you gotta do what's going to keep you balanced. I also know it's easier for you to learn by experience and than by being told. Both are equally reputable ways to obtain wisdom, make sure you have a balance of the two if you want to be a catalyst. Learning by experience without a teacher will result in naive action without knowledge, and accepting everything you're told won't create any new knowledge. Both allow you to ask your own questions about what you're told based on experience. Patience is discipline. It comes easier for some than others.
"Better than any ritual is the worship achieved through wisdom; wisdom is the final goal of every action, Arjuna. Find a wise teacher, honor him, ask him your questions, serve him; someone who has seen the truth will guide you on your path to wisdom." - Bhagavad Gita, 4.33-34
I trust that you know what you're doing. If all else fails, we'll still be here when you get back. At least I will be. Things will be vastly different but we'll always be the same people. I only hope that your purpose doesn't become stagnant as the people around you continue to grow. Ask yourself: are you spending every pulse of your energy working towards your purpose on Earth? If yes, then there's nothing to fear.
Sending love vibes from all the way across the world! I'm always here just an email away don't be afraid to burden me with your problems, helping people makes my fire burn stronger. That's my purpose. I miss you and I love you. Take care of yourself. Mind body and soul.
I think Dani is not far from Madison. Last I heard, she is in Mount Horeb at the Summer House.
DeleteFirst of all these pictures are the coolest hoop jam I have ever seen!
ReplyDeleteSecond, you seem really happy and that wonderful-rific!
Third, hahahah! Psytrancers!!!!
Look at the success and relationships you and the students have created. The evidence is in the smiles and cooperation. You have taken the S & S formula and applied it to your own work. You have inspired the youth of Seva Sedan and are an inspiration to others across the globe.
ReplyDeleteI would like to see TROLL do the same. Probably cannot as the person is stuck on the computer and is very angry.