gurus and pollution

Hi everyone!
A new, more positive Maria has come to life and therefore last weeks exteremely wining input has been deleted! Well, the truth is I just realized that writing the name of the campaign I am working on, while at the same time complaining might not be the best idea considering that this is a public forum...

I hope you are all well, still miss you, as always. I will put some pictures on this sight soon, but since I've fallen into the Mumbai-trainee habit of thinking that every thing that takes more than five minutes is a huge effort, I am still trying to collect enough energy to move my pictures to a memory stick and then actually bring it to the cyber cafe.

Anyways, last thursday a guy from the office took me on a trip to the country side. After 6 weeks of Mumbai traffic and pollution (which is giving me really bad allergies) it was heaven. Before even leaving Mumbai we stopped at an Ayurveda health clinic where I got a hot oil massage followed by some sort of sauna box (me in a wooden box with a hole for the head). Six weeks of dirt coming out of my skin! Afterwords I got to see an Ayurveda doctor who by taking my pulse and claiming that I have to much heat in my system (surprise!) told me exactly how I was feeling, physically and emotianally. Ok, I know I might be naive but everything she said was actually right, so I came out of there with 10 different types of pills. Not sure they help though as I'm home from work sick today.

The goal for the trip was a place called Kapoli, 150 km out of Mumbai, where there is a temple set up by a yoga guru. The place was absolutely fascinating, with a km long line of people waiting to be blessed by this man. More so, the country side is beautiful and it feels like a completely different country altogether. Coming back to Mumbai after that was almost a schock.

What else, Ellen (my Norwegian room mate) is leaving tonight and two new guys have moved in. So from now on our two bed-room appartment will be inhabited by myself, five guys and an uncountable number of bed-bugs. Please come visit :)

Ok, take care! Let me know what is going at home! And what is Sweden up to with the soccer??
Kisses
Maria

And since I've been bad at answering e-mails, some personal messages:
Darren, hang in there. Coming home is always weird but you'll get settled soon! It's Montreal after all!
Julia, lycka tll i Australien! Du kommer ha det fantastiskt!
Tash! Miss you as always, I will try calling from a phone place some day. Is your house phone still working?
Ante, hoppas allt ar super pa kollot! Hade jag kunnat vara pa tva platser samtidigt sa skulle jag vara dar!
Rikke och Julie- ar ni i Kopenhamn nu? Tillsammans? Saknar er, spar lite ost och vin till mig! Har finns inget!
Isabell and AMan- when do we go to Goa?
Jenny, Maria, vad ska man saga, spar St Michaels till mig!

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