Hei, god dag!

Just a small update on the last three days. I had been in Chennai at the end of this week to walk through the Theosophical Society in Adyar, get a haircut, buy some clothes, and pick up a TLR camera from the CPB Foundation.

When I got back to Auroville, I was pretty exhausted. Yet, after the Peace Pasture series I did on Saturday, Yasmin from AuroOrchard invited me to join her for two events that evening, which I had had no clue about. First was the opening of a Russian art exhibition at the Tibetan Pavilion by Alexander Pereverzev. Alexander gave a wonderful presentation for each artwork, and I particularly liked Seeing off Maslenitsa. Farewell to Winter. This piece is about the famous Butter Week celebrations, in which, on the last day, an effigy of Lady Maslenitsa is burned. Lady Maslenitsa, also called the Butter Lady or Morana, is linked to the ancient Slavic goddess of death. So death is burned… into spring!

Afterwards, we went to the Youth Centre, where they were holding a massive pizza night because they unfortunately have to relocate. There were so many people at this event. We had great pizza, made a fire and sat around it, talked with some elderly Aurovillians, and later watched the meteor shower with friends until after midnight on Gaia Field.

On Sunday I was still pretty tired, but when some of the people I had met asked me to join them at the beach, I couldn’t say no. It was my first time swimming in the ocean since Bergen aan Zee, and it made me incredibly happy. Afterwards, we went to eat at Malgudi Days (highly recommended for homely North Indian food in Auroville) and played cards to close the night.

Only three photos, I forgot to take more!