Michelle finds yoga, beer festival, and getting back on track

Going to head into work later today.. Want to make sure i can hold down some toast, make sure all the pipes are clean and no leakage will occur(know what I'm saying?). but I slept well and the pain and aches have diminished. While on the mend i have been reading "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" an Indian History of the American West..  It is a rollicking tale about how our forefathers destroyed the lives of all Native Americans in this country.... Makes you feel very proud of your ancestry.. It is an excellent book, but one I wouldn't recommend if you're looking for a pick me up..  Some great stories. I am making a list of places to visit out west. 

On the other side of the ocean, Michelle found a lodge that offers free yoga classes. She went last night and said it was the only yoga class she's ever been to that mentioned "security lights" in the mediation segment.. The instructor told them to (and I'm paraphrasing ).. " rise above your body, float over the city, notice the home security lights on, the night watchman hovering over their fires".. she thought it was strange. Michelle also said there were no African woman in the group. She noticed as they were doing headstands, a bunch of Malawian women standing in the doorway laughing at them.I asked why she thought no African women did yoga,   she said, "because they don't need to" . They have perfect posture from walking all day with objects on their head , and they don't stress over silly things like we do. Their outlook on life is different than ours and don't need  to make time to have out of body experiences... Plus, their too busy collecting firewood, stacking it on their head , making dinner while carrying a young child on their back.

On October 25th, a beer festival hits town.. I have no idea what this will mean, but I have it on my calendar.. As a bit of beer snob, this is exciting.. There is one choice of beer here.. Carlsberg.. There are three choices of different Calrsbergs.. Green, Chill or Stout.... all of them are average.. better than some of the light beers at home, but not an Oberon. Anyway, there will be home-brews there and food stalls.. I"m not going to get my hopes up, but this could be a good day.. What are the chances that Madtree or Christian Moerlein will have a booth? 

Kids are doing great and enjoying school. They are required to learn bible verses and this is becoming somewhat of a challenge for some of the kids... Hopefully they'll learn how to cope. The little ones had soccer games yesterday.. Jude lost 2-1 , Maura's team won over Franny's team 2-1.. 

Side note.. someone just drove down my street at 7am pumping Miley Cyrus.. 

Ok, all for now.

 Photos attached are Jude's soccer team( silly face mode),  A drawing from Maura's African journal (awesome) and a great sign hanging up in the administrative offices at school..