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From the 6th to 22nd of July : "What happens in these last 2 weeks ?"
 Sorry, I have been very lazy, and specially to write an article in English. I confess it. But I have been busy...Not so much finally, it's just that my friend Boualem joined me here for these last 2 weeks(that was not planed !). Actually we did spend a lot of time on internet and that's why so long time passed without news : he helped me to open a travel blog which takes a lot of time, believe me( do you know how fast are computers! here!). Sometimes I was not patient enough to wait for downloading and resize the pictures and I wanted to stop it. But he insisted, and finally it is there and I hope I will become easier for me after a while. Please, be indulgent, it's just a start. I will try to do my best also to write in both languages. ( you can click " Trip in India, English version" for it and on "album photos" to see some of them). As I don't write articles in the same time, or my vocabulary is not sufficient for the same descriptions, I skip a lot in English version, sorry. For the moment only the articles are in English. After the Ashram guest house we left to a complete different place ( with no rules this time!). We stayed in a house of colonial type, belonging to a French Indian lady, Jackie. She is renting rooms, adjacent to her house with a huge veranda always opened on a wonderful and luxuriant garden : cashew nut and mango trees, hibiscus...( sorry guys, I wrote a better description of this place, of flowers and trees, but can't do it in English, i don't know the names. An advice : learn French and read it ! or look at the pictures). It's an old family house. Today Jackie exports colonial type furniture with her husband Bala. All the house is full of these furniture, so beautiful, smelling the past, among bronzes of Indian gods (Ganesh, Shiva, Parvati..), old porcelain dishes, a painting of the General de Gaulle...all these make a charming and pleasant atmosphere...All the rooms are decorated nicely, all independent. And Jackie is such a nice person, very friendly. Finally, we were so well there that we decided to stay for all the 12 days of Boualem's holidays. What did we do? Not much than I did before : we rented scooters, visited Pondi, went to Auroville, the beach ( in Aurobeach : again an amazing place in a garden of even : see the pictures), having smoothies, dosas and iddlies, sizzlers, fruit salads again and again, having an "ayurvedic massage" : Ah, let me focus a bit on this "ayurvedic massage"!! I have received ayurvedic massage before, and nice ones. I also took a short trainee in this subject 4 years ago here. So, I learned that there are some precise lines on the body where you have to put pressure, there is an order to do it, it takes at least 1 hour and a half... + the magic hands of Neren, at Cihangir Yoga, I could say that I had some elements of comparison. Anyway we wanted to try, and to trust the place with a very nice and good looking sign : " Ayurvedic Kerala clinic and center, ..." and bla bla ( even if i am used to this, they are so good to impress you...!).The office looked nice and trusting. Unfortunately, it was just the office. As I came into the massage room, I started to be suspicious : very dark ( better, like this you don't pay so much attention to the dirt around you!). Then I had to wear a kind of knickers, very open on the sides ( we say "string" in French but it might not be same in English ): actually, it took me some time to understand what it was, how to fix it : and then I understood that it looked like the ancestor of the "string" as we know it today , with a big advantage : it can be suitable for all kind of size ( more for big size I could say!). Then, the massage women, who first looked at the clock on the wall(good start), started to coat me with a thick and smelly oil ( so much that I was almost slipping of the massage table). And for 45 minutes, she didn't give me a massage but just spread the oil with weak and rough hands and with same circular movements, more annoying than relaxing. I didn't want to compare, but Neren, if you read this, believe me, I have been thinking of you a lot for 45 min , and I swear that any satisfaction sound went out of my mouth! It's the first time that I have one massage and that I expect that it ends quickly. So, no need to precise that this girl has never eared about "energetic lines of the body"...After this wonderful and relaxing moment , I had to take a shower : another experience!What is the color of the bath ? It used to be white. Oh, you offer an opened soap and shampoo! It's so kind of you!" The flow of the water is slow , but i can manage with this, no pbme. The siphon is blocked ? No pbme. Oh, but what are this small black things swimming around my feet ? Insects : cockroaches ! Ok, then it is more challenging : hanging the shower pipe on one hand, rub your body with the other and jump on one feet to another to avoid these pleasant cockroaches best swimmers than dolphins ! Result? I couldn't succeed in taking out this oil, I was more relaxed before I arrived and of course it has been the same experience for my friend who was happy as me! Never trust the sign, and go to a place that somebody you trust has recommended to you. How I could have forget that. Now Boualem has gone, it was 5 days ago. Again, I moved back to the ashram guest house and restarted a detox ( i had done only 3 days and then stop as my friend was arriving). I have been practicing Ashtanga since I arrived on every terrace I could find and I feel very good, fresh now. This night I go to Chennai to catch my flight to Bangalore and then to Mysore. I had many addresses ( thanks to Maya and David's friend : Tom. Thank you guys ). But I got in contact with only one :Ganesh, from Anu's cafe. He said that everything is full now because of the birthday of Guruji which was on the 18th. So, I will leave my bags to his place and seek for an hotel at first and then I hope to find a room to rent for one month. I hope to register in the afternoon at the AYRI, and start on the 24th the practice. I will give you more news from there now
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Publié à 03:19, le 22/07/2008 dans Trip in India, summer 2008(english version), Pondichéry
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| desolée, sister je ne parle pas l' anglais, en tt cas cette fleur est magnifique, il va falloir que je prenne des cours, ça sert parfois. super ton blog, j' adore, j' en ai que des compliments venant de mes amis. je t' aime sister et vive l' inde pour ce bonheur que ce pays t' apporte; |
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