Friday, December 18, 2009

Thy Tsjee

That day I woke up with the sound of the river. Laura had already left. I walked from my tent up to the van where a big pot of coffee was boiling on the wood fire. We drank it with Pamelawhich is a solid block of raw sugar boughtpretty much from the source. There is plenty of such a place where “Kania” (sugar cane) is set into a rolling press to float into a series of metal containers under which the fire is booming. Each container contains a more brown version of the previous bigger container until the smallest one holds a thick dark brown syrupy substance, which they mold into cubes during the cooling period of the now becoming still hot, delicious, sweetness called Panela. So we use a knife to gnaw some pieces off to put in our coffee. And we drink. And enjoy. When we finish doing that, we continued to do some more nothing. 2 of the girls start making weed zapatos, a local dish from only oil, flower baked in oil. They make thin discs and we fry them well through. This gramar is shit and have also changed the tense, did you notice? Anyway, the zapatos (with weed) came with quacemole (with salt).


Alexi, a guy from France proposes to go for a swim and do some Ty Shee. Tai chi is an 'eastern somewhere'- meditation, relaxation technique whereby you breathe in and out deeply and slowly while doing postures/ making movements referring to water (Like Bruce Lee's water).


Doing this in a the cold at first, but little later sensationally re-energizing water flow made this a mystical experience (helped a hand bythe zapatos. When we came back we did some more nothing....