This post is dedicated to Rosario, who has been with me alongside the inconstancy of life and to Antonio who - together with the former and with great appreciation for both - has been responsible for my stronger physical health.
Day 5 | July 27th
Today the time almost flew by: it's already 4pm and I assume I will be served dinner shortly. Today is the turning point, hence I am happier, I feel happier. I got tobacco juice at around 8am this morning: I had been awake since.
Foot it was, indeed: right after starting writing Geraldine knocked at my door with my dose of ajo sacha + my entire plantain, which I just finished. I haven't brushed my teeth - with odorless clay - so frequently and so much in my life I guess: together with showers is the most exciting thing you can do while in self-inflicted isolation. So, I didn't take any naps today, I almost fell asleep, but it didn't really happen: I spent my day moving from the bed to the terrace, listening either to the sound of the silence or to the noise of the nature.
The shaman reassured me that the natural supplements I had been taking to enhance my immune system and prevent covid-19 disease are not interfering with the Diet: full and clear revelations can happen even after the retreat, so everything is ok. I was worried I did something wrong, but I need to give myself time, and life will happen on its own: #takelifeasitcomes.
Today I focused my attention on a couple of things I would like to do with my life and got the chance to take a lot of notes on to-dos, after I am a free man again, in just slightly less than 4 days. Who knows how's the worlds outside, if the pandemic infodemic keeps on going, if we have uncovered the epsilon variant: after a jump start with all the Greek letters, we got stuck at delta, what a pity!
Tomorrow is going to be a rest-day, and I envision it to be really tough, but at least I will get 2 meals. In two days, we are going to have another ceremony - the last one - and then, after a full day of rest, we will get out of isolation, with a real salty meal: hopefully at this moment I can update this blog, taking all the pics I am taking note about, as we don't have our phones. So I am almost there, need to resist 3 more days.
Still don't know what I am gonna do next, once out: for sure I will text my family, reassuring I am ok, and probably I will call two/three friends to hear some warm voices.
It's kinda hot at the moment and we cannot stay under the sun, so I am locked inside (the terrace, is really sunny), I may go for a walk under the pathway in front of my room, which is in the shade, even though it's still freaking hot.
Day 6 | July 28th
Today has been passing ok, not too quickly, neither too slowly. I prepared yesterday a to-do list for today, as I envisioned it to be pretty tough, just to kill the time:
- shower #1
- shower #2
- letter to family
- letter to a friend
- clean-up the watch
- fill up water from the big bottle
- repack luggage
I did only 4 out of 7 and it's already 6pm, so probably I will leave the remainder for tomorrow, in case this is going to be tougher than today.
I didn't sleep super-well, or actually, I did but I woke up at 4:47am I believe. I forced myself to stay in bed till 6:16 and at that point probably I used the restroom or went out on the terrace for a bit; took notes of my dreams and tried - successfully - to fall asleep again.
I was waken up by the shaman, who knocked at my door for my morning dose of ajo sasha and plantains risotto: slurp slurp! I was slightly disappointed as usually when you sleep time passes faster and I expected breakfast for around 10am. Anyhow, the idea of risotto made me really happy: only salt, pepper, oil and potentially parmesan were missing, and also the fact that was served at 8:00am, but again #takelifeasitcomes.
I didn't fully fall asleep again after that moment, I spent the morning filling up my water bottle and writing the letter to a friend of mine (and no, you won't be reading it!). At around 12:10pm or so, I closed my eyes for a couple of minutes - and yet I was able to dream and remember my dream - and at 12:30 I took the dose of bubinzana on my own, before taking a warm shower. I put the towel up for drying on the terrace while I kept walking back and forth to kill the time.
After lunch it was pretty hot here, but again, I cannot confirm how many degrees. I decided to lay on my bed and write the letter to my family (neither in this case you can take a look). I lazied in my bed for less than a couple of hours till the moment Geraldine knocked again with (early) dinner (or late lunch): plantains. She asked if 1 or 2 and I went for 2 entire hard-boiled plantains: I cannot image the face of my friend from Amsterdam or even Luca from Madrid at me eating 2 full plantains: the sex jokes would have never ended. Anyhow, it's the only variety of dinner we have per day, and I was hungry; and actually the taste is like potatoes, and you know how much I like potatoes, still they would have been tastier with some extra-virgin olive oil, salt and pepper, but whatever.
Probably I will add move to my to-do list to tomorrow. basically, it's almost ended ladies and gentlemen: excluding today, we have:
- ceremony day (tomorrow)
- rest and interview day (after tomorrow)
- cut the diet and end of isolation (Saturday)
- departure day (Sunday)
It's already Wednesday, can't wait for the second ceremony tomorrow!
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