Sorry I haven't written in a while. I've been flyin high on some dope. They have so much dope here guys. I've been smokin ever since I arrived. haha...juuuuuuust kiddding. I'm totally a straight edge.
neway, do I have to say it again. Life here is wonderful. Here are my daily duties. I have to clean from 10-12:30. If anyone is interested in getting free accamodation any time during world travels I can tell you what kind of cleaning is involved. After cleaning, I am free!!!! I spend the day reading the newspaper, running, laying on the beach, playing soccer, napping, figuring out my white water rafting trip, going to jazz concerts in the park and restaurants, going out for a night out on the town.
Okay if I haven't mentioned this I have completely changed my beliefs about the supernatural. I am actually positive now that there is something else out there governing this whole life thing. This is b/c on my way to Nelson I passed by this spot that I am absolutely positive I dreamt about!! I was with my family though, not with the bus driver. Isn't that crazy?? Does anyone else support this belief that their are external forces out there that we haven't tapped into yet?
Hmm so today it's raining! Booo, but I actually think it's "brilliant" as the english would say mainy b/c it means my skin can't get any more sunburned than it already is. Okay time for some pictures and "all that jazz" as the Sri Lankans would say. :)
This is the Nelson Saturday market. This guy is playing a crazy instrament. There was also a really good raggae dude there.
It's about 20 times bigger than you see in this picture. At the market you can buy delicious fruit, awesome clothes, pottery, fishing equipment, plants, art. It's got quality stuff that you'd see in nice stores, unlike the Berkeley outdoor markets. There was this guy playing this crazy pipe instrament that sounded awesome.
These are two of my new buddys! One is a awesome girl from Germany named Andrea. The other is another cool girl from Sri Lanka. we went out and danced the night away. I was happy to here that new zealanders like to get down to the same tunes.
We were at the jazz concert and the Sri Lanka one named honey talked to me all about fallowing your heart. She said that if you trust the universe it will give back. There are infinite possibilities. She told me I should read the Alchemist. She is a crazy dancer that just feels the music and goes with it. It was inspiring so we both ended up just doing crazy dancing the whole jazz show.
This is one of the jazz bands that played in the festival.
They are called sideshow. Now if you look into the audience you might see your mom or even your grandma! See her out of all those people. If you really look you can tell that age is realy just a number for New Zealanders. Everyone young and old get up out of their seats right infront of the band and dances. It doesnt even matter if your the only one dancing and your 60. They will just get up and dance if they feel like it. Isn't that a great thing. I wanna bring that mentality of freedom back to the states! who will join my in the free-dance revolution??
This is a restaurant in Nelson.
They have all kinds of food here including sushi, thai, indian, american (pizza hut and mc'ds) and kiwi.
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Whether or not you read The Alchemist or get into Paulo Coelho, you might find interesting an article on him from The New Yorker. They didn't have full text of the article in their archives, so I took the initiative of nabbing it off ProQuest and uploading it to my site for you to read...HERE.
My hope is that, the more time you spend reading, the less time you will have for "free dancing".
First Ariane starts planning trips that involve multiple days without showering and then Sierra starts threatening to read Paulo Coelho and import free dancing...Resist the hippie madness!
P.S. If she weren't gallivanting around Italy right now, Ariane would chime in and say that that instrument appears to be a didgeridoo -- traditional instrument of aboriginal Australians and one of the instruments played by one of her famous artists, whose name now totally escapes me...
The famous artist is Xavier Rudd, whom I saw during our adventures in Washington DC -- He's an Australian muscial hero and real badass, in a hippie dippie kind of way.
Anyway, happy to see you're all settled into Nelson and doing all the quality self-reflection you were hoping to do!
Let me know how you like the Alchemist -- I actually read a passage from that book as part of my sister's wedding ceremony
Hurray for the hippy movement!!! We will revolutionize the world one man at a time!
ok, first of all, i will join in your free dance revolution. second of all, didnt i tell you that there are other forces governing the universe other than just scientific ones?? time to trust in astrology. also, please come back learning how to play the didgeridoo--that would make me most happy =)
haha okay ariane...
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