Age of Aquarius

I am laying sprawled on a pile of the circular red and orange pillows which I have come to know so well over the past month. In the main hut on my last night at Sadhana Forest I am feeling some conflicting emotions. Mike from New Mexico is playing Sublime "What I Got" and "Santaria" on the guitar which is awesome since this music makes me feel totally blissed out. I feel like its time to move on, and I am very happy to be traveling to Kerala with Tony tomorrow. We plan to explore back waterways on a houseboat and visit tea plantations, beaches, and wildlife sanctuaries which will be absolutely magical. I am so excited to start traveling again and actually see India. I am finally, after a month of drinking the Kool-aid ready to see, smell, and taste real India! However, I am conflicted because im sad to be leaving Liz. Things between us have never been better actually, and I have been thinking that it will be fabulous for both of us to part (for now) on such good terms. So Liz is going to stay in Sadhana Forest for at least another week, maybe two and we might meet up before she does her vapassana. Only time will tell.

March 26: I think I pulled a muscle in my back yesterday in my intense digging sessions with Belgium Bakery loving Nicolas. I have been slathering on Tiger Balm and trying to take it easy. For first work today Stacy let me sit with her in the office and I "Helped answer emails" but really we just had a little chat session and eavesdropped on people who are digging the banana pits outside the main hut. It's actually really funny to listen to everyone chatting without their knowledge of our eavesdropping. I have been here long enough now to recognize every ones voices and let me tell you it is quite a relief to know that im not the only one breaking Rule Number 2! In the afternoon Julia and I rode down to the beach on her motorbike and we had amazing egg and cheese omelet sandwiches and fresh grape juice. I also took my first shower in oh about 5ish days, although I have really lost count by this point. Since it is Thursday that means it is NIGHT OUT and we got the whole crew together at New Creation pizzeria. There were probably 30 people all squished into these tiny little tables ordering the chewy and gooey delicious pizzas. I split the Italian pizza, which had 3 different kinds of cheese, olives, and basil with my friend Chelsea. I have been working with this cool chicka on the eco-dome lately and (this is the best part) she is actually going to UO next year! GO DUCKS!!! I love being able to say that, haha. I have been having pretty regular nightly movie sessions with Nicolas. He ripped a ton of awesome movies from Kerri and Greg and tonight we watched Pineapple Express, which was really just a perfect way to end the evening.

Belgium Bakery loving Nicolas at the beach with us today. Check out the hot chick in the background.

March 27: CRAZY day today! I started first work raking leaves with Tony and British Seb.

We carried all these bags back to the compound, look at Tony getting his grunt on!

We saw the BIGGEST spider I have ever seen in my life! It was metallic silver and had fangs, fo reals! Check it,

I made Seb get the picture because I was running away at full speed, probably peeing my pants a little along the way. It was so freaking scary!


This is Seb, and he is a BAMF for getting the pic of Goliath!

After working hard in the forest I hopped on the back of Seb's bike to go to a Satay making workshop. Satay is a meat flavored tofu alternative. Unfortunately we ended up getting lost along the way, running out of gas, and missing the workshop. So after walking around the back alley ways of Auroville for about an hour chatting about skydiving, bungee jumping, and other ballsy shenanigans Seb has done we finally found a gas station and got some gas, which I have started calling petrol since that is the cool thing to do. Once we refueled we took one of the back roads home through the rice patties, it was the gorgeous time of day when light filters through the grass in a surreal orange mist. We sped through a palm tree lined road stopping only once to watch some Indian kids playing cricket in an open field. We were only impeded once by a huge truck filled with sticks blocking the entire motorway. Only in India. We got back only to learn that Liz and Tony had a little incident on their motorbike...

March 28- April 3: Over the past week I have been sitting in a guesthouse taking care of Liz and Tony who were in a near motorbike collision with a cow, which would be really funny if they weren't bashed up. Tony is bandaged from neck to toe, It's not pretty, but the perks of playing nurse include getting to watch movies all day, eating some really tasty food and making some very creative pain killer concoctions with the prescriptions from the Indian hospital. The drugs they gave us are hilarious knock off names of the popular brands. For example, Indian Vicodin is called Vi-cold-ine. So basically Liz and Tony have been hopped up on pain killers for the past four days and I think are actually quite enjoying being so gimpy. So that is whats going on in my part of the world.

One more thing I want to address before signing off, and that is the many diverse options I have been informed about for uses of your urine. It seems like everyday some Sadhanite comes up with a new way to utilize their urine. Got a cut? Pee on it! Ran out of facewash? Apparently piss is a great anti-wrinkle angent. Have we run out of fertilizer? Well don't worry we will spray our piss all over the garden dousing everything from the tomatoes to the herb spiral. Does the spiralina pool need some more water and the well has run dry? Let's just get everyone to piss in it until it is filled to the brim. Seriously unreal urine fasinations, it borders on kinky. As I said earlier Tony and I are leaving tomorrow for Kerala. So I will let you know the phone number of the next place we land. Lots of love!