21 November

Days are just floating... I love our morning walks up the hill to Vipassana with cows checking out the trash bins and monkeys bargaining for food - first time it took me 30 minutes, now I run up in 12 - this is called motivation!

On the way when the sun goes up...

Before going up sometimes we pass by the Kunga caffee (our spot and chilling_out_in_the_sun place) and buy some cakes, the carrot cake or smth else for max 80 cents. Hm, actually not we but Cyrus :) Then we sometimes take masala tea at the tea shop just next to the center and chat with people passing by, usually the same. 

Then after THE one hour of meditation with Goenka-ji I either go to Sandra's little paradise (Om-ashram with a real Baba-ji where she's staying, with roses and a sunny terrasse) and we cook, chat, play with the Australian kids or I drop in Trek and Dine resto just next to the Vipassana, they have wifi and great sun on the balcony there! 

Then the main issue is usually to choose between lemon-ginger-honey or masala or lemon tea. Life is soooo hard here...

Today I went to the movie-eve at the Center for Tibetans who want to learn English. On Mondays they have movies on Tibetan issue and also momo-yammi :) The movie is free and the food is 100 rupees (1,5 euros) and mmmmmm so good! The film we saw was "Tibet: murder in the snow" - the first documented murder of Tibetan refugees crossing the mountains on their way to Dharamsala by Chinese soldiers. If you find it online, see it and spread the word! Impressive, really hard to digest, no words, no reactions would be strong enough... I talked to some monks and an American guy Carey Russell (kestrelfilms.com) who is here until the end of February making his own documentary on Tibetan stories. Found out that here in Dharamsala there are only around 10000 Tibetans, thought they were muuuuch more... Oh, and in this Center they conduct classes in English for Tibetan grown-ups and one can volunteer during the discussion hours, which I'm gonna do tomorrow at 2PM. And they also give classes in Tibetain cuisine, yopiii, gonna learn how to do the best Tibetan bread!

Feeling to DO something now, have been chilling out for a good week and now wanna action!