Sunday, June 2, 2013

Adyar, Sunday, 2 June 2013

Adyar River streaming into the Ocean




Adyar, Sunday, June 02, 2013
From 9 am till 2 pm we were working every day this week with great satisfaction. In between we had lunch from 11.30 till 12 am. Some days, after 2 pm we managed to get the laundry man to do his job.
In the afternoon we do reading and some days at 4 pm we go out on the bicycle to buy things like batteries for the torch and a new keyboard for our laptop PC, which is functioning perfectly now. On the way back we usually stop at the fruit stall and buy a water melon, a Kg of green oranges for pressing juice, or a papaya.
After dinner we have a shower and go to the study group. The group reads the text of “The voice of the Silence” by H. P. Blavatsky and most of the participants give their comments. This study in the evening continues with five to seven people and lasts sometimes about half an hour longer than the 45 minutes originally planned. It gives a good general basis for exchange of ideas on the spiritual path, which all present are trying to find.
We made a draft contract and draft letters necessary for the visa of the volunteer, who was here for many years in the recent past and wants to come and work again at International TS Headquarters, this summer.
It was much cooler this week. The Adyar River was streaming vehemently into the sea through the canal which had been dug out in the sand bank by a bulldozer dragging machine. There has been a little bit of rainfall during one or two nights and days.
One day we saw, that there was a dragging machine in the middle of the river busy to deepen the bed of the river in order to have more water flow out so it cannot stagnate and form breeding places for mosquitoes.
We filmed the river streaming through the sandbank, while three boys were swimming in it. They even went back into the water, when they saw that we were filming with our cellphone and tried to behave as real movie stars.
We keep waking up before the alarm clock goes off.
We made a phone call to a friend in Europe of about three minutes for some Rs 26, which is not expensive at all as changed in US currency it is $ 0.50.
Skype worked finally, because we tried the connection at a later time. The family was at the dinner table and we could join in for a few minutes.
Once a week before dinner, we go for a swim in the ocean. That sometimes is a rather rough but good exercise. When I paid the bill of the dormitory just before supper, we could inform the manager, who was interested in our swimming escapade that one of the first times we went swimming, we had a painful shoulder before, but that after the natural movements in the strong waves our shoulder was completely without pain and had come back to normal.
Sunday was a real day of rest with even a rain shower at the end of the day. We played a few games of chess with one of the volunteers staying here in the same dormitory and did some reading afterwards.
The research for our study is showing a “mère à boire” (an ocean to drink) as our professor said to us 42 years ago, when we were about to make our first thesis on the Entry of England into the European Common Market.
Wikipedia nowadays really is one of the best sources with good texts and a wealth of references.
PC and Internet are very useful, but a pest if we are under siege by commercial sites and services. We managed finally to change our password for Facebook. One commercial site was able to get publicity in our Facebook timeline from a guy with over five thousand friends.
The beach walk in the afternoon was very quiet, today, as the rain had just stopped.
That was all for the week from,

Mr Brooder