Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Goa: Arambol, December 3rd, 2009

So I have decided to do the Yoga continuation class which starts next Friday. This class is in the morning at 7:00 AM for about 3 hours. The teacher Sharrat is the senior teacher in the Himalaya Center here www.hiyogacentre.com. The kind of yoga they teach in the Himalaya center uses plenty of helping props and really gets you to much stronger stretches. I feel that I'm making significant improvement and that my body is more erect. I feel that when I do my morning walks.

Yesterday night I met my Brazilian friend Patricia (which is leaving today) and together with her friends we went to a place which required about 30 minutes walk on the beach to a nearby beach. The place is called Surf-Club. The best decorated I've seen around. Very nice. We had in the group 3 English men, one Irish Woman, one English woman, Myself and Patricia. The English are kind of interesting guys. All traveling for months or years, full of Tattoos and the English girl had plenty of piercing. An interesting group. In the club, which has mostly English people, you drink beers and there is good music. All this group is staying in the same guest house (except me) and after we came back (mostly everybody was a little drunk), they invited me to their rooftop where they continue smoking good stuff and talking. As I don't smoke, even cigarettes I feel a bit out of place in those groups. But I'm getting to know a different kind of crowd. Most work in temporary jobs, make some money and go travel. One of the guys have been traveling for 10 years and have been everywhere.

During my morning walk today I changed my mind about the India dogs. I mentioned before that they are very friendly. Today it was weird. I saw dogs in gangs and barking a lot. Not very friendly. There was an old woman walking with 6-7 dogs. It seems she takes care of them. And they attacked me. She said they wanted to play. But I did not feel very playful at all.
When walking in the beach, I see in the morning more aged people. Not as in the Haifa beach where the average is 60+, but a few guys in their 50s. The interesting thing is that many wear a tanga. It coves only the front and they buttocks are all exposed. My swimwear seems quite outdated (or theirs). Also you find people walking with some weight in their head, which forces right posture while walking.
At about 8:00 AM is when the fisherman come back with their catch, which is nice to watch.

Without the Yoga class I miss something in my routine. But Friday it will restart. I'll go to Hampi probably Wednesday next week.

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