Hi
lovelies!
So I’ve
just created this blog as a way to keep in touch, without writing such long
emails to everyone separately… This does not mean that I will no longer write personal
emails, or respond to the ones you write me, it just means that you’ll be able
to look here and have a vague idea of what is going on in my life and how things
are in Copenhagen! The city
has turned me into one of those people who doesn’t seem to have much free time,
so I decided to start this blog in the interest of spending more of that free
time outside riding my bike along the sea or through beautiful oak forests,
exploring Copenhagen, or heaven forbid, doing yoga or EVEN meditating! Don’t
expect anything too coherent here, it’s more likely to be a jumbled mish-mash
of ideas, thoughts, musings and reflections…. But I hope you enjoy it
nonetheless!
So, since I
moved here almost 3 months ago, I’ve been on a huge rollercoaster ride…. First
the culture shock. The last place I lived before moving here was a big, beautiful
treehouse in the hills of Mullumbimby, just a short drive to the beach, crackling
open fireplace, super peaceful, a lovely little food garden, amazing living
space surrounded by nature with wallabies, bush turkeys, our own chickens, the
occasional goanna trying to eat the chickens…. You get the idea…. Life was very
relaxing!
Here, I
live in the city, with 35 flatmates instead of 2, on the 6th floor
of our yoga school building. My living space is a curtained off end of the
attic (temporarily, as I am waiting for a room to be vacated). I’m suddenly in Denmark, I don’t
speak Danish, and I don’t know how anything WORKS here…. (You know that feeling
when even buying a bus ticket is a huge challenge!) Then, I’m working as a
massage therapist… (We have a Therapy Centre as part of the yoga school) almost
full time hours, so that’s a big change! However, I’ve settled in very well in
the last few months, happy to be back in the same country as Jorrit again, I’ve
made some wonderful new friends, and now I love it here, I know it’s exactly
where I need to be right now.
I do what
is called ‘Karma Yoga’ – the Yoga of action. In the yoga school, some of us
work for the school full time, as Karma Yogis. We receive a space to live, our
electricity, phone, gas etc paid, all our yoga courses paid, any extra retreats,
events or workshops we want to do through the school are paid for (even in some
other countries), 5 weeks holiday per year, AND an allowance for food,
essentials and other things we want. It’s not enough to save, but it’s enough
to live. And I’ll hopefully have some other little jobs on the side from time
to time….
When I
first arrived, it was FREEZING cold, I was wearing all my clothes at once and
going outside involved an epic mission using all kinds of weird garments that
we never really need in Australia
– gloves, scarves, beanies, leg warmers, woolly socks, thermal fleece layers….
Luckily I arrived at the END of Winter, so it was only getting warmer…. And now
it’s beautiful outside! Summer starts officially in a few days, but it’s
already nice and balmy, we are all happy to be wearing our summer clothes again….
I’m loving seeing all the Copenhageners enjoying being outside in the sunshine
after months of cold weather. The parks are filled with semi-naked bodies, they
are even swimming in the sea already! I’ve been told to soak up the perfect
weather while it lasts here, so that’s what I’m doing!
Wow awesome to get a good update from you :)
ReplyDeleteWe miss you, love lots xxx