Yoga on the terrace this
morning. In the sun. My body awaking and energy start flowing through
it. My racing brain relaxes and I feel more like human being with a
brain AND a body. Beautiful.
Listening to The Great
Freedom Teaching makes me even more relaxed and happy. I am so
grateful.
Both me and Roy are keen
dental tourists now. It started when Roy broke a tooth and found this
great clinic with an English-speaking young, beautiful Venezuelan
female dentist, Ruby, who owns the dentist clinic with her sister who
does the bookings and admin. We are there so often that these two
girls are now like our friends. Yesterday Ruby said that my mouth was
so small that working on my teeth was more like surgery then dentist
work. I could not stop laughing and we had to take a pause.My Swedish friend Hannah
has recently moved in to a fancy flat with two friends that arrived
from Sweden not long ago. The last few days I have spent some time in
the flat, happy and amazed to find a spot of genuine swedishness,
something that has not been present in my life for a long long time.
We talk about life, the universe and everything I am so enjoying the
Swedish slang, way of using the language and the humour. These people
are from Stockholm, my town of origin, they are the same age as me,
and in a way it feels like I have always known them. It is so homely
somehow, and I am happy I have found them.
It has been raining quite
heavily here for the past few days, and apart from that the roof is
leaking in the common room of our hostel (it is a roof that you can
open on a sunny day), the rain has reminded me of one thing I will
not miss when I leave this city. It is the dog shit that is never
picked up form the pavements and gets nicely dissolved in the rain
and makes you almost slip as you step on it. Not nice at all.
And now a moment of
confession. It is quite embarrassing really but is has to be said. It
is about the Spanish language. I remember writing in a blog entry as
we arrived in Buenos Aires that learning the language is a matter of
priority for me. Well, is has not proven to be that after all. I have
not learned a thing. I am mute as a fish, getting buy with a handful
of verbs, smiles and nods and relaying heavily on body language. Just
as in the beginning, 2.5 months ago. To be fair, I can say that I
have learned to understand quite a bit, especially when dealing with
small everyday conversations, in restaurants and in shops etc., but
it is nothing like actually improving and advancing in the language.
I am telling myself that I could learn it if I wanted, that I am not
stupid, but I just do not find the motivation. That is the way it is.
So, now I have said it. And this goes for both me and Roy (he is
still better than me, he can form a few sentences at least, and he
understands more than I do). We will be coming back after nearly 3.5
months in Argentina not having actually learned any Spanish. I am
working on accepting that...
That is all for now.
Love
Ania
