Images from the book
This week Winnie and the General left for two months to the
This morning we did a workshop with the students at
This week Winnie and the General left for two months to the
This morning we did a workshop with the students at
Sonal informed me on our way to the UNAIDS conference that my report on
At the UNAIDS conference, I took meeting minutes and noted significant table discussion comments. I sat with Dr. Jean Louis Lamboray, Constellation,
Level 1: We are aware
Level 2: We react on it
Level 3: We act
Level 4: Continuous action, systematizing what we do
Level 5: The practice is part of our life-style
The HIV/AIDS criteria to assess levels included: acknowledgement and recognition, inclusion, linking care and prevention, access to treatment, identify and address vulnerability
Within the UNAIDS office, Denis mentioned his office frequently self-assesses. At certain levels his own UNAIDS office may be at a 3. Other organizations realized that some criteria, such as linking health care and awareness, the organizations may fall at a 2.
Workplace Yoga: Universal Yog
Vijay, our yogi, a glowing smiling, healthy young man, gave us a paper power point presentation today in our apartment. His mission is to spread yoga to the masses. Yoga is a big deal here. In the Delhi Diary, similar to SLC weekly guide, there are daily meditation and yoga classes at a number of places. Yoga is supposed to make one feel energized, calm, relieve stress, enhance concentration, promote positive thinking, build relationships, and cure ailments among other things. Besides working with sedentary office workers, military, police, Vijay works with NGOs to empower women through yoga. Aside from the flaws within the health system here in
Today is July 13, 2008. There was somewhere important I was going with this last paragraph a week ago, but I’ve already written about it. I had six hours of sleep. The internet finally turned on, and I was up late talking about my issues with Kasey, Katie, Mom, and Nikhil on Skype. According to Vijay, if I do the meditations right, I would need only 3 hours of sleep. The math is every ten minutes of correct meditation equates to 90 minutes of sleep. Thus, Mohammed Ghandi was able work 21 hours each day; 3 hours to rest your body, 30 minutes to rest your mind. 8-9 hours of sleep is not needed. Vijay came on his motorcycle, helmet, goggles, white kurta to the Maitri office today. We all crammed into the little office, sitars tinkling in the background. Today was a Workplace Yoga Workshop. We stretched and ommed. 30 minutes of meditation last night and sleeping with a purpose did not remove the thick heavy air that still clouded my brain, muscles this morning. It was near impossible to see the dark place behind my forehead in glaring fluorescence and sleep clouds hazing my mind vision (visibility 5%) during the extra 5 minutes of meditation in the office. Tonight is another yoga session with Vijay at 8 PM. Running, Pilates, and Yoga. Writing, reading The God of Small Things (Top 3 Books). I will not finish Holy Cow. More Workplace/Corporate Yoga.
The interns presented on HIV/AIDS awareness prevention and education at the
After the workshop at KC Secondary, the students swarmed all the interns with questions like, what’s your favorite colour? How do you contract HIV? How do you avoid substances if you already are addicted? All very substantial questions. Nothing too difficult, not until Winnie called me over from across the room.
“Nancy, this boy has a question for you”
“Ok,” I looked at the boy; he looked very young.
“He wants to know what ‘oral sex’ is. Could you explain it to him?”
Did we cover oral sex in the presentation? Oh yeah it’s on the survey and now I have to explain it to this boy barely 13. I flushed, ummed, paused, and then sputtered a pathetic explanation.
“Well, uh, so, it’s when, sex organs, male or female, are in contact with the mouth instead of the traditional sense. You know um, (or I don’t know if you know), when a male sex organs are in contact with female organs, um (or some other permutation, I didn’t want to go into any more details I had to).You see, oral means mouth. Does this make sense?”
“Can you tell me when the last time you had a bowel movement? Was the excrement solid or more liquid?”
“Does your ass hole itch?” is instead
“Do you have anal irritation?”
“How many people have you had sex with?” is instead,
“How many people have you had relations with being sexual in nature?”
And so on and so forth….
(sang to some Scottish tune)
“We thank you, thank you auntie. We thank you, thank you auntie. We thank you, thank you auntie from our heeeeeeeeaaaaaaaarrrrts. We thank you, thank you auntie. We thank you, thank you auntie. We thank you, thank you auntie from our hearts.”
Followed by…
“We love you, love you, auntie. We love you, love you auntie. We love you, love you auntie from our heeeeeeeeaaaaaaaarrrrts. “We love you, love you, auntie. We love you, love you auntie. We love you, love you auntie from our hearts.”
And, then….
“We bye, bye, bye, bye auntie. We bye, bye, bye, bye auntie. We bye, bye, bye, bye auntie from our heeeeeeeeaaaaaaaarrrrts. “We bye, bye, bye, bye auntie. We bye, bye, bye, bye auntie. We bye, bye, bye, bye auntie from our hearts.”
NOTE: If any of the destitute children of
So I hate to disappoint everyone, but the helicopter was canceled due to weather, but I promise nakedness here!!!! For the last week we traveled from
“Yes, you should try massage, traditional kerala ayurveda massage. They use lots of oil and it’s all organic.”
So the next day, we all went to get oil massages. It was nothing like the foot massages I received in
I decided I hate blogging. Journaling can be so much more liberating. I don’t think I’m going to be very good at this.