...really need to learn the plural for "mongoose"

delhi --> varanasi (kashi)

o glorious days. yoga on the rooftop of my guesthouse as the sun rises, huge ganga sprawling below... these have been wonderful days. it is amazing because in many ways i don't even feel like i have left here, even though it has been more than a year. of course there are always surprises. these have included hordes of locusts at the train station, butterflies everywhere and the river so high that you cannot even walk along the banks. it is amazing and great fun. there is an entire family of mongeese (?) living below my guesthouse and that has absorbed much of my time.

also! i was eating dinner in a little restaurant and a korean woman came in. she looked very familiar but i thought i was just being stupid and racist, thinking all asians look alike. haha. but no, it was actually my friend ahrie who i met in ladakh last summer! our emails had not worked so i hadn't heard from her since then. she now works in india doing tours for koreans (which she likens to being in korean jail- haha). it was amazing and random to reconnect with her, but now i think we will see each other many times. she is a die-hard indophile and can be counted on to return over and over. wow.

so now i leave for the ashram and this will be my last blog for quite some time (providing i get accepted etc.). i just want to thank everyone once again for your hospitality, time and love. i left canada with a very happy heart and will return that way as well. all my love.

om namah sivaya.