Wednesday, October 13, 2010

So so much!!


So as I said in my last entry I have ad a really REALLY busy past week. I don't really remember when I last wrote, but here is a quick summery of my week thus far and then I will go into details. I know that these arn't exactly "spiritual excpirences", but I really want to write about them, so I am going to. So....
On friday my band traveled to Big Walnut for an away game. Our football team lost (15-0) but that was excpected, they arn't excatly respected in our school anymore.... if you get my drift. The cool thing about that night was the other lined up making a long tunnal for us to run through. Fan's do this for the football teams all the time but for us band members it was a real treat to be acctuly honared! (I don't think I spelled that right) yeah and when we got to the end of the tunnal, it was really long the was a big table literaly heaped with all sorts of goodies and treats, there was something for everyone including the vegan's and Satvic diet people. AKA me.
Satuurday started very early in the morning. I dressed in my only fitting white and orange half-sari and drove with a woman frm Kentucky who had been staying at our house to the temple. A clear an fresh morning it was. People started arriving at the temple quickly and by eight am a large crowd was assembeld in the basement of the temple. We where to have an eKalpataru! I went through all the meditations and was the very first person to have darshan. I would rather not write of the details of the dashran here, but I can assure you it was an absalutly amazing excpirence. After eating a quick but really good lunch one of the temple devotees drove one of my friends, who attended the program, and I to school. There we met the rest of our band members and started a few hour process in getting ready for that eavning's OMEA cometition. This includes Music rehersal, and marching rehersal for many hours, putting on uniforms, cleaning instruments, and of course eating a lot. Were teenagers!
This is a seperate paragraph cause it is a way different event from eKal (as I will now call it) Well we drove by school bus to Findley and the competetion. I have to say I really like the town of Findley and it has a collage I may look into when the time comes. Anyhow I slept the whole bus ride, a talent you can procure from weeks of travel in India. We rehearsed a bit and did our preformance, put away our things and then went to sit in the stands. While watching the other bands preform most of our band had a popcorn fight using the popcorn as ammunition. This is because the other bands where so good we diden't want to consentrate on them (it's something that happens to you when you know that you are going to loose.) Well we diden't get a One (the highest score) achive State-going-band status of place in any class. It was a quiet bus ride back to school. But to look on the bright side, I did everyone of of MY moves perfect so I mean thats wonderful!!
Sunday morning got up early agian had Mum drive me across town to feed, medicate, and pet a cat I was petsitting. Went to the temple, helped with Anishakum and Alankar (always an amazing excpirence) then changed into jeans and a shirt and my dad drove me to Equi-Valent. There was a horse clinic taking place and snce I am a volunteer I got to go for free! It was really cool and taught Natural Horsemanship. We did roundpen work with the horse (I will explain later if you remind me) and it was VERY hands on with the horses. Wonderful excpirence though. Came home donned an aprone and made an eggless cheese cake with my sister, from scratch. Ran (literly) to the temple and taught a kids yoga class, for four very hyper active adolesents, did the eavening arathi, ate dinner. And then went to bed! And thats just my weekend.
It is late now, I promise to write more tomorrow PLEASE contact me with questions it makes writing this thing 1 million times easier. So TTFN! (ta ta for now!)

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