Big Birthday

Hi it's Isha here again.

On Tuesday there will be a BIG festival here with about 50,000 people coming to celebrate Amma's 58th birthday. It will be very crowded in the ashram. The venue is about 5 soccer fields wide! There will be free food for everybody.

We have less than one week in the ashram. After we'll travel to a touristic place with a nice tropical beach. We'll stay there 4 days before the grand journey home begins.

We will fly from Cochin to Mumbai. In Mumbai we will stay one night at a hotel.

Bye

beach

Hi!

I am already looking forward to coming back! I am especially looking forward to go and swim in the Mot River (after you have read this post you will get to know why). Last week I went swimming in the sea with my dad and some guys from California. The sea was really rough and there was a very strong undertow. People do not swim here in the sea but we did not know that. That week on the same place where we were, two Indian guys got drowned. Those men were poor fishermen who did not feel having a choice taking their small boats in the waves to catch some fish so that they can sell them on the market. As you understand I got kind of scared when I tried to get out of the sea and I could not because of the undertow. When I did manage to get out this guy asked if he could take a picture of us. After the photo was taken  looked at it and I saw someting quite dirty on the background of the picture, something you will never guess...I saw three villagers doing a poo on the beach! I figured out why they did poo on the beach...they are very poor and they do not have toilets or even electricity and running water in their huts, so the beach is basically their toilet.

p.s. Floris, how is your foot doing? Hope it is getting better so we will get to play soccer again!

Bye!!!!! Isha

Half way

Hello,
Sorry, that I haven't replied on my blog so often. There has been so many things going on that it will take me 5 weeks to describe all of it.


I have borrowed a keyboard of this lady called Gitamba. Cause I want to practise a few songs. I have learnt how to play 'twinkle twinkle little star' and ' green sleeves' in 10 minutes. I have improved my reading a lot by reading the Harry Potter series (in English). So far I am up to the third. Unfortuntally, the library here does not have the fourth. So I've started reading these other book series. I just forgot the name of the title, but is a bit like Harry Potter. Also I readt 'the diary of a wimpy kid' (the green one). I like the 'Shell Silverstein' bit.
From the 1st of September to the 10th there is a Ganapati festival. It is about this guy called Ganesha who's head got chopped of by his father (an Indian god called Shiva). Shiva wanted to go in his house, then Shiva realized that the kid he killed is his own son. So, he goes to a forest and chops of the head of the first being he meets: an elephant! Afterwards he places the elephants head on the body of his son. Technically, if Mrs Goodall chops of your heads and replaces them with possum's heads, you'll be gods!!!??? Last Friday morning I saw a bird. It looked like a King Fisher, but than the size of an eagle. The bird's wing were electric blue, awesome!! PS, it's my birthday the 4th of Sept.

Bey, bey,
Isha