Monday, June 18, 2007

Mysore Madness

Hello friends, I had another Brazilian woman move in to my apartment here. The apartment is now at capacity. She lives in Barcelona, so I have someone to speak Spanish with for the next few weeks. And I get to listen to she and Rose speak Portuguese. I thought I understood a lot of Portuguese, but I must be honest. I really don't know what they're saying to each other most of the time.
My back is starting to feel better. I've been focusing on keeping my abs engaged during the practice and it seems to be helping. Yesterday and today I felt really exhausted after practice. I feel my body changing. I'm using new muscles as I get more flexible.
Sharath helped me in Mari D today--still not quite there, but it's close. He said, "every day a little closer." True enough.
I finished applying for my student loans yesterday. I think most of my pre-law school administrative duties are taken care of. Hooray.
I went online to try and get an idea of class times. It looks like most classes start after 9:00am, so I won't have to get up at 4:00 to keep up my morning yoga practice. This is good news. I think it'll be easier to ease into a 6-day practice at home if I can get up at 6:00 rather than 4:00.
Right now I'm just enjoying being here. I'm glad my back isn't bothering me quite so much. I don't have that much to do here, so when my practice goes poorly, it colors my whole day.
2 weeks from today I leave Mysore for Bangalore and then London and then Chicago and THEN Minneapolis. I'm excited to go home. I did all the things on my trip I wanted to do. There were some low moments and some high moments, but overall I'm satisfied with the entire experience. I hit my stride somewhere in Laos and things have been great since then (except for a few incidents in Northern India...).
It's funny that I'm thinking so much about going home and that it feels like I have such a short time left. Two weeks is longer than some people get for a vacation!
Oh, and just because I'm coming home soon doesn't mean I don't still appreciate hearing from you....
Hugs,
Lauren

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