It's raining again. I am pretty sure part of my planning for this trip included checking the weather during October and November and monsoon season is supposed to be over by now. I do not like rain. It was raining on the way to practice this morning, during breakfast and now this afternoon. All I can say is it needs to stop by dinner because I'm not having ramen noodles for dinner and that's all I have here in the apartment. I guess I could kill Kevin and have his bag of Mars bars.

Practice was kind of crappy this morning. I slept bad again and was super tired. I forgot parsvottanasana. I remember that I forgot after I had already done my balancing postures. When you forget a pose you are supposed to go back, do it and then continue on. That would mean doing balancing again. Nope that wasn't going to happen and nobody called me out on skipping the pose so I just plodded along. I only got help in my usual place, mari c & d. I got the assistant that gives really light adjustments. I need the bone crushing assistant or Sharath's magic touch.

After practice it was time for breakfast. The rain forced everyone to grab their food and head indoors to eat. I asked Chris, a guy who works a the cafe who is from Chicago but now lives in Mysore, what else he does besides work at Anokhi Garden. I know he isn't practicing at the shala because he told me he has several injuries. He told me he works at the local ophanage teaching the kids yoga. He said I should check it out. I told him I wasn't vaccinated enough to be near children (for my sake not theirs) and he said all I need to worry about is catching tuberculosis from them. Holy crap now I'm convinced I have tuberculosis. I have been coughing since I got here. Based on the number of mosquito bites I have, I probably have malaria too.

After a failed attempt at a nap I decided to go shopping. I walked down to the rickshaw driver hangout and got Appu to drive me into the city to Rashinkars. They have fabric and can make you clothes or whatever else you want. I spent a crap ton of rupees on various items.

Here is what the city looks like:






Bike shops!

Rashinkar's




Peanut salesman



No I didnt have any peanuts. I'm not going to crap out my intestines for three days from eating off a dirty peanut cart.




So now while waiting for the rain to stop I decided to try out the incense I bought at the market so if I like it I can buy more because it's really cheap compared to buying it at home. I didn't have an incense holder so I had to make due. (don't judge me on how gross my bathroom looks, the water is really hard or chalky here and even after scrubbing everything has a film over it so I gave up trying to clean it)










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