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Published: August 9th 2009
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So yesterday I went to a beautiful garden called 'Project Ecolake'. This couple took a landscape that quite literally looked like the moon as it was totally baron and just 35 years later it's now a lush dry evergreen forest which is indiginous to Southern India. So basically it looks just as Sadhana forest should do in 35 years. It was really inspiring as it was so beautiful. More than anything I was overwhelmed by the couples devotion and hardwork in the cause. They're so much like Aviram and Yorit (the family who started Sadhana forest). They let very few people in to see the forest/garden as they don't want publicity and they don't want to upset the nature there. They ask for no money to see the forest and they were so so welcoming. I am going to go back on Tuesday to just sit in the garden as it was such a peaceful environment. On the tour I felt like i needed to be there longer as it was so beautiful. Like another world to the chaotic streets of India!
In the previous week I've been doing much more at Sadhana. I've taken on the role of kitchen
manager now, which is great as it's nice to have a little more responsibility as you get to know the place much more. So far I think I've been doing well, fingers crossed it will continue! I've also been going into the forest much more and this week I helped build a bund. Bunds are for water conservation as they basically stop the water flowing down the hillsides and keeps it where the trees need it. So you take a load of dirt and make something like a damn almost. I was the stomper, so i spent virtually two hours each morning stomping on the bunds to compact them so the water flow wouldn't knock through them. It was almost like being on one of the steppers at the gym! So there was my exercise for the week! 😊
I've finally decided to take the plunge and go vegan. So no more ice cream at Richie richs! Instead I have lots of fresh juice. It feels good to have finally gone back into it, as it's where my morals lie and I feel so much better for finding the will power to just do it. Who needs normal cake
when you have vegan muffins on film night!!
Most of the rest of my free time has been spent at New Creation pool! I've found a pool and it's amazing. It seems to be getting hotter and hotter yet so this pool is like a god send! I've even got myself a membership now I'm that addicted to the place!
Ooooo also, Poofy had puppies! She'd secretly mated with one of the local village dogs and had 6 puppies. They're so adorable. But 4 of them died, and i'm pretty sure that the other 2 will also as she's an awful mother! She hides them in holes under the toilet and in the showers and just leaves them there. She's a little crazy I think. Nevertheless it was still exciting to be woken by the excitement of findings new baby puppies in one of the huts!
That is all for now. I love you all. xxx
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