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...Has started. Been a while now, sorry, been busy. I'm studying 24/7 right now, or so it feels. Yoga sutras, Hatha Yoga Pradipika, Bhagavad Gita, Anatomy, Chanting, bleh bleh bleh... Have some four thousand words of essay to write for my course back home, so there's some more fun! The main teacher Sharath Rangaswamy is gone abroad, so its only his rather strict mother Saraswati left to teach, who has us coming in at half past four in the morning. Yay... :P

If you're the kind that recycles, uses as little plastic as possible, tries to do train instead of planes, trying to reduce your "carbon footprint", don't go to India. Or, bring anti-depressives. What's wrong with these people?? I mean it, within the first two weeks down here, my smoking lounges came back. There's a constant fog lying around the city, with a bluish hue to it. Plastic is sold like candy, no recycling, people throw garbage in the streets like they don't care. Rickshaws pollute like mini-coal plants. Hey, the government was gonna force the drivers to put new clean engines and filters in their Rickshaws to help clean up the air in the cities? Rickshaw drivers all over the country went on strike. The government then tried to ban smoking, saying -that- was the cause of the soaring lounge cancer numbers down here. You may guess how well that turned out. These people... They live in filth down here, and the government won't do nothing about it. They have casteless people working the streets to clean up what little they can, and they figure that will suffice. Thumbs up!!!

What a place. The singing cars, salesmen shouting "papaya" all day long in the streets, kids asking for country coins, getting ripped off in stores, cows wandering around blocking traffic, dead dogs in the streets, dogs barking their brains out all night long, waiters who don't understand english, flies and mosquitos, masala spice, masala spice, masala spice!! Do they have an imagination?? Indians with their wobbling heads, criminal police demanding bribes, muslims and hindus demonstrating and fighting, people burning garbage in the streets, open sewers, lying rickshaw drivers, everybody wants something of you, noisy traffick, the constant "Which country?", "Norway!", "What?!", "Europe!", "Ok!"... Man... If the Yoga practice is about finding peace in a stressful situation, India is the place to practice... But! A month from now I shall be on a plane home...

...Oh, got a complaint again. I didn't actually write about the yoga or put up pictures? Dunno what to tell ya. Have no photos, any story about it, well... A lot of breathing. I got a video tho! Enjoy: