Day 1 - Oct 14, 2017, Saturday

 For the first time in a long time I woke up at 4:20 a.m. They switch off the wi-fi here from 10:30 p.m. to 8 a.m. and the cellular reception is poor too. So it forces you to sleep and that's probably why I woke up early. I went for the morning Satsang and then Yoga class with teacher Arjuna. He learned from Swami Vishnu and has been teaching for the last 40 years. Very experienced and great teacher. He is from Montreal, Canada and like everyone else, Arjuna is his Ashram name, I don't know his real name.
After Yoga, I took a walk back and felt like going to the Krishna temple. I'm so glad I did. It is beautiful. The rest of the day was not much to do. Only that each person had an introductory meeting with the Ashram staff in the Krishna hall. They called and met each person individually. Swami Sita asked me about my background, why I came, who's in my family. All good. Tomorrow is ZuZuB's birthday and I've already given him his present and worked with Ariv to give him a surprise. I am sad to miss it but happy that I am getting this experience too. I am fully confident that Ariv is do a great job of executing the surprise.






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