Due to the uncomfortable nature of the couch and other
disturbing factors like our proximity to Daniel’s constant leery grin we got up quite early and after
some tea and grapefruit were gladly on our way home. Even though we were very
tired and up for a lazy Christmas day, we had to soon go to get grass and trees
for the animals again. While busy with that, a mysterious guy wearing flip flops with socks appeared out of nowhere, gave us a gift of the so-called Pakalolo plant and disappeared as quickly as he had come (he might have been an angel). After we got home we decided that enough work had been done for today, barricaded ourselves into our darkened
room and only managed to watch half an episode of Friends and eat a few cookies
before falling asleep. We were awoken by Judy wanting to talk to
us about the remaining tasks around the house as she will be leaving to
California tomorrow. She also asked again about whether we still wanted to go
to the Hare Krishna Christmas celebration she had told us about, and even
though we were hesitant at first because Daniel had mentioned going to that as well, we decided
to go. Judy arranged for us to be brought there with some neighbours, an old
couple with the names of Mathura and George. Once again we didn’t quite know what to
expect when we got to the place, a beautiful wooden house with huge windows
overlooking a valley and gorgeous Indian paintings everywhere. We were taken to
the chanting room in which everyone was sitting on the floor facing an altar
with a picture of Krishna and chanting the Maha Mantra.
I found the chanting surprisingly soothing and calming (our
sleep-deprivation and the constant swaying made for quite a good
meditation-base) and even though it went on forever, happily launched into each
repetition again not quite wanting it to end. It did, of course, and after a short
sermon held by the leader woman, Maha, we went downstairs to join the promised
vegetarian feast. The food was amazing and Daniel was not too bothersome and
left soon, so we were quite happy with the outcome of this day and went to
sleep immediately after getting home.
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