10 things

10 things I miss from home:

Surprisingly I don't miss things what I would expect to. No meat, no family (sorry mummy and dad), not even hot water, but:

1. Electric toothbrush

I left mine at home considering it's weight and the fuss around it... bad mistake. Kurkuma and massala (same spice mix applied into the tea as the dishes) combination can stick on the teeth very badly, and there is no chance to remove them. Some industries could use this awesome sticky feature. 

2. Blow-dry

Yeah, luxury! My OWN hairdryer, my OWN brush. Lovely procedure, means real home for me!

3. Not-waterproof mascara

I really don't get this: why would you use a waterproof one? Do you like tearing your eyelashes from one by one or you prefer letting the chemical rotten into it? What's the point? is that a kiss-proof thing? Who kisses your eyelashes, seriously?!

4. High heels

Macadam roads. Nono, I tell you better one: Pavement! C-I-V-I-L-I-S-A-T-I-O-N

Gluten-free food - I love when they say here, that something doesn't contain gluten, and when I ask back with a "tricky" question, they confess, have no clue what gluten or wheat means. I eat like a  cow, and start even looking like them.

5. Safe hospitals

As this culture is mixed with western and ayurvedic healing systems, I can't take them seriously, so it's better  not to be sick. I <3 EU regulations!

6. Drinkable tap water

It is not only about drinking a glass of water. It makes you paranoid - in restaurants, if the salad was washed in filtered water (NO), same problem with the ice which you can see or can't even see in drinks, worry during washing teeth, having shower, washing the dishes if you do so. My sister gave me a carbon filtered flask, but keep squeezing the water out - hello tendonitis...

7. Washing machine

Gloves, bucket, time! Such a wasting time...

8. Cooking

hoooome maaaade fooooood <3

9. Tesco's

Familiar brands, familiar food, clean toilet, bank-card acceptance - who needs more in life?! Oh yes I know: keep your shoes on. Because in India you must leave your shoes/flipflops on the street, so you have to be careful where you leave it. Sometimes shit happens. You find your sparkling clean flipflop on your return with a mature spit on it, and free to go home in that... ooor, it is possible that you don't even find them where you left. There is a funny trick to avoid that: use not matching pairs!

10. Full-size mirror

I have to use my imagination about my full size look. We will have a long introduction when I got home.

The Course and the first sickness in the team

The course was very intense, so I'm late with my writings, apologise for that.

As it was a sudden decision in Rishikesh I didn't know what to expect. I bargained the price and offered my services, see what happens.

My first impression was a strong bad feeling. Its a trap, they are not registered, all they want is just my money. But I knew I'm paranoid in all new situations, so I stayed. 

I met nice people again, especially Kellie and Arezoo who we became very close buddies. And that's all why it worthed to go there. Cause it was clear the course was all about money. No commitment, no spirituality, no real attention (high emphasis on the philosophy classes, OMG, such a loser preacher), which can not be yoga by definiton. The schedule was too tight, I was mentally tired after a week, which should be the opposite in such a training. It made me phisically sick at the end of the course. My mind and body gave up the fight with the pressure. To be fair we got what we came for. Information from a book. Some anatomy, and lots of asana theories. But there was no time to process that amout of information. 

As we were only 5 students, they treated us "so-so" until the end of the 200 hours course (why would they invest into 5 people? Wouldn't worth the money). But after that I stayed on my own... which I'll write more about later.

We were far from the town, didn't have enough time to go there every day, so we ate out in the restaurants on the beach, which we got sick sometimes.

One of the students got a parasite, cause she ate salad (washed in tap water). It is easy to say that she could get it from anywhere but we all knew these restaurants are there only for the profit, no customer service, no care, no love.

And here comes the part, why I love India. The country of non-sense. Ayurveda.

Hands up, who believes in it - serously? SERIOUSLY?! You may rely on ayurveda only in one case: if you are healthy. 

After 5 days of non-stop diarrhea and vomit she visited a well respected ayurvedic doctor (who sacrifised 5 years hard work to this fake science instead of studying proper-proven-working medical science).

I wasn't surprised when the symptoms didn't change at all. So after 10 days illness finally a western doctor cured her in 1 day...

Now you can say, "oh, but it was actually the ayurveda, it just needed time. this is part of the detoxification of the body". Yeah, science of excuses. I agree herbs are good for us, but it is difficult to eat 10kg spinach to get the required iron level... Just to clarify, ayurveda is good, but way not enough if you are in trouble. Overhyped bullshit. Namaste.