Mexico, Central & South America 2005

Well it was saposed to be only 7 or 8 months heading south. Im already 7 or so months in and im only as far as Guatemala, so it looks like I will have to extend this trip by quite a bit time, o well, worse things have happend. Enjoy!

Tuesday, May 31, 2005

hello again

hello again every one. been a week or so and i thought it time to let every one know how ive been.
im doing really great.
im staying at a meditation center here in saint marcos. the same village i was at before. im doing a four week course here in metation and other cool things. learning lots and making lots of good friends. even been hang out with a really pretty swiss girl, im such a sucker for the swiss german.
ill give u a little break down of my day, let you see what my looks like these days.
im up around 4 am to have a cup of herbal tea; im off cafean, meat and alchol for the next month to purafi my body of all the toxins. then me and Racel (pretty swiss girl) climb the hill to watch the sunrise as it comes over the volcanos.
im doing the moon course, it runs threw the full moon, four weeks in total, shes already done that course and now is on to the sun course, witch runs threw the ekinox, 3 months in total. for 40 days shes in silence, shes not saposed to comunicate or interact with ppl. so we watch the sunrise in silence. both our courses finish at the same time, so for the first month of knowing her i wont ever hear her speak. when shes done the course shes leaving. but she writes me little notes or we comunicate in other ways. she said she has a canadian acent because she learned how to speak english in edmontan. but she also speaks perfect french and spanish and of course swiss german. plus a good amount of portugeas and italian. she blows me away.
after watching the sunrise we walk down to the dock and swim out to the middle of the lake to watch the sunrise again, since where so much lower, and it hasent come up over the mountains yet. its gourgus, theres hardly any one up at that time and it feels like we have the hole lake to our selves, its so calm and quite.
after i grab a quick shower, have a quick snack and another cup of tea to warm up I get to yoga for 7 am. we do an hour and a half of yoga then go and grab breakfast. at 10 oclock we have lecture, the woman who runs the temple is named Chatie. shes gutemalan and is really cool. we learn about metaphisics and lucid dreaming, and other really cool things. it has nothing to do with religun but lots to do with spirtuality.
from 11 30 to 5 oclock i have off, so we might go swiming again or chill in the hamick and read or take a nap. theres a kitchen here for us to use so ive set up a little restrant. i cook dinner for every one at 4 oclock and it gives me enuff money usually to pay for all my food for the hole day. at 5 oclock we have an hour of guided meditation and a half hour of silent meditation. witch is an amzing part of the day. you come out felling so at ease and peaceful. they have a really nice tradishonal mayan sona here, so if i have time doring the day i set all the wood up for it and when i get out of meditation its ready to light. we go in and out of the sona for a cuple hours, run down to the lake for a night swim or just stand in the rain to cool off. it rains almost every day, but its not a big deal casue its always sunny in the mornings and it makes every thing so green and pretty. plus every one groups togeather so theres lots of ppl around to share time with.
by 8 oclock or so im back in my room doing a bit of meditation and getting ready for a night of lucid dreaming, wich i havent had yet lol, its really hard, but im already rembering a lot more of what happens. so mabey tonight, who knows..
ive been sleeping great here, best i think ive ever slept.
some days i get free massages from friends who are learning here in town or go and hang out at a friends house who lives on the top of a big hill over looking the lake. such a hippy comune up there, its great. i did have a cuple of girls i was spending a lot of time with but they left the other day after being with them for two weeks. it was sad to see my friends karis and Gemma leave, but i should be meeting up with Karis again in houndurs if things go acording to plans.
so thats a little break down of my life. im learning lots about myself and an alternative vuie of the world, wich if nothing else is interesting.
lots of love, take care
mikkel

5 Comments:

At 6:37 AM, Blogger Julz said...

Mikkel...
Hey hon! It sounds absolutely amazing. You know what, after just reading about your day I feel more relaxed. lol It sounds beautiful and peaceful, and something I could really use in my life right now.

My news... I have 3 jobs now (soon to go down to 2 I think). I just got a job as a waitress at the golf course just outside of town. I start on Fri., so we'll see how good I am at waitressing. I think that if that goes well I won't stay at the pizza place. I just moved houses (I'm still in town). I moved in with my best friend's mom to keep her company (and they have a pool table... BONUS!). So I've been keeping busy!

Anyway, I'm glad to hear that you're happy and where you want to be for the meantime. Good luck with the meditation. I wish I could partake and be at peace too right now.
Luv Ya!

 
At 12:56 PM, Blogger Mom said...

Hey Mik:
Wow! I'm very proud of you. Learning to meditate will help you so much in life. The small things won't bother you anymore, and that in itself will be worth it. Sounds beautiful there! So glad to hear you are having such a great time. Swiss girls hey!!
And your creativity is awesome, cooking for money!
Wish we could just jump on a plane and spend a week with you. We could really use the peace and relaxation.
Glad you finally wrote something, I was getting a little worried!
Love you lots,
Mom and Dee

 
At 6:32 AM, Blogger JoJo said...

Hi Mik. That sounds like the place to be. How long do you think you will be staying in that spot? Have you found anyone to move onto the next place with?
Your pretty brave to go off caffeine. That's a hard one for me. That is so great your plans are going the way you wanted them to.
Things are busy around here, now with the weather is so nice. Garden ready, pool open and your Dad is holidays. He planted himself a vegetable garden this year.
Well I let you get back to your meditation. Enjoy the place your in, it sounds like heaven. Love Ya, JoJo

 
At 10:55 PM, Blogger Brandie said...

Hi Mik
Well, our city is under major flooding. The bow and elbow rivers have flooded their banks, and have even crested over the reservoir dam (first time ever since it was built). Our basement got flooded from rain waters (over 300 ml over a few days). Thankfully it wasn't a sewer backup like other houses experienced. So we had to move all our stuff upstairs, and now it stinks of mildew and our upstairs is a cluttered mess of toys and crap. Thankfully our insurance covers cost of replacement, but not sure how long it will take to get it replaced. Not sure how long we have to live with this, because so many people were hit, it is going to take awhile for the insurance companies to act on this I am sure.
Today, we celebrated Father's Day, Téa made Dad a dad's day card which he loved, and we had a great day at Calaway park. Still didn't stop me from coming home and losing it and having an emotional breakdown. I am an emotional wreck lately. My stepdad went down to NB to burry my adopted mom's ashes, so I was crying over her too this weekend.
Anyhow bro, that is our news (Indy is smiling the biggest smiles you ever saw now) and I check your blog daily for updates, it looks like you are getting behind!
Thinking of you,
luv
Brandie (and Téa and 4 month old Indy)

 
At 7:18 PM, Blogger MeiGhaN said...

hey mike! haven't heard from ya for awhile, so i figured i would post something; not only to say howdy, but to urge ur ass to post more often, dammit!! things are goin good for me..i found out last week that i have been accepted into art school for the fall, so i am super-stoked about that- YEE-HAWW! i picked up a 2nd job banquet serving at this hall for on the weekends (same place as last summer)..i forgot how gnarly it is to be surrounded by old italian women in a very large kitchen..."eat, eat!" hahahah, god, i love the free food:)
but yeah, hope ur doin amazing, mike! ttyl8er (OR ELSE)...
--Meighan

 

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