FREE at last

So the bad news is that my trip to Kanyakumari was cancelled... apparently not enough people signed up, so they will try again next week. The good news is that instead I hopped in a cab with some friends to Kovalam, a beach town about 35 km (one hour on indian roads) away from the ashram. Its amazing. Just being free to do what we want and eat what we want... getting in the cab this morning we were positively giddy! Helen suggested we all write and mail ourselves letters from the ashram so that when we go back to our normal lives and forget how much we missed them, we have a reminder.

Anyway, in the cab on the way here it was rainy, but while we ate breakfast at a little restaurant looking out on the beach the sun came up, and now it is beautiful! And for breakfast I had fried eggs (which I had to send back 3 times until they cooked the whites all the way thru) toast and bacon! Don't tell the swamis!

I am here with a slew of other TTC girls - Helen from London, Helene from Stuttgart, Eva from Vienna, Marguit who is Austrian too but lives in Kerala, Josephine from the Netherlands, Marie-Helen from Quebec and Catherine from Nothern Canada. We plan to eat and wander and shop pretty much all day... so I will have a happy thanksgiving after all, just one day late.