Adyar, Monday 13 May 2013

Picture of Adyar River taken from the roof of LBC in the year 2009

Adyar, Monday 13 May 2013,

Last Thursday at about 5 pm, we came back in Adyar after a journey of 21 hours. We were welcomed by a delegation of five of the household and kitchen staff. All with smiling faces and happy feelings of recognition, which continued during the next days.

There are no major tensions and another foreign worker, who has come to live and work here, was also present at our arrival. He said he is very satisfied with the spiritual atmosphere of the place. One of our friends, as by coincidence, passed by at the dormitory, just as we arrived there with the pre-paid taxi from the airport.

The weather is very hot and transpiration is running from the head. Last night it was a little bit cooler and a rainstorm made us get up to shut some of the windows.

Telephone and Internet connections are still working without much to do.

We can make our walk to the beach every day in the morning and in the evening just before breakfast and dinner. Yesterday evening, at the beach there was one person taking a bath in the sea. He explained, that now that the current had changed and the water from the Adyar River would stream up along the coast to the north, one could swim in the sea at the beach south of the river.

We discussed the subject with the other foreigner, who had also met the swimmer and decided that we should follow this example.

For the rest we are mainly occupied with the formalities for visa registration at the Indian immigration service.

That's all for now,

Mr. Brooder