Namaste my lovelies,
wow what an experience.
Since last Thursday the all world around me as change, and the way of living also :)
The cyclone has destroy 70 % of the forest around us.
During the night we were sleeping when the wind started and it felt really weird as the wind felt so strong that i haven't lived this before. I had share feeling because i felt fear but also i couldn't believe it was happening. We have no glass as the windows neither door as the weather here is hot all year. We only had mosquito blind so it gave us the impression of being at the top of a tree during the storm. All night til 5 am it was impressive. The electricity stopped working allready since the beginning of the storm. We received a message on the indian phone that the cyclone was on its way and that suddenly frightened me as i thought "What because this is not IT?" Anyway few minutes after that a Korean family living next door ask to open the door as they couldn't stay in their room because the rain was entering everywhere. We all had to sit in a corner of the room the only corner that was without water.
At 6h30 am the light of the day started to show us the reality of things and we could see trees flying to crush on the next door house and the horizon was not showing a jungle anymore but the sky on kilometers.
Well i can say at least we have known our new neighbors, they were really worry so we started to make joke and all.
The wind stopped round 1 pm to let place to big rain. We came out of the room around 3 pm and couldn't believe the landscape. Nearly all trees were down. But what i saw then were amazing: All the Indian people started working together, laughing and talking and in a couple of hours the road were cleared out for the main village. Everyone started to work together even Lhasa and me to help to make tea and clearing out all the trees. it seemed to bother no one. To the day of today we are one week without water or electricity. I find internet like today in the unit were they have solar energy. It is an amazing experience for this new year 2012. A beautiful one :) Since then, we play, we talk, we share, we read, we find all the pleasure of not having electricity. I Love cold shower also and i am not missing hot shower. When there is none of artificial way of living every single moment in a house such as television and internet and video game we learn how to be all together again. Even today i came in a bar where there is Wifi and everyone is talking to eachother because it is a bar.
wow what an experience.
Since last Thursday the all world around me as change, and the way of living also :)
The cyclone has destroy 70 % of the forest around us.
During the night we were sleeping when the wind started and it felt really weird as the wind felt so strong that i haven't lived this before. I had share feeling because i felt fear but also i couldn't believe it was happening. We have no glass as the windows neither door as the weather here is hot all year. We only had mosquito blind so it gave us the impression of being at the top of a tree during the storm. All night til 5 am it was impressive. The electricity stopped working allready since the beginning of the storm. We received a message on the indian phone that the cyclone was on its way and that suddenly frightened me as i thought "What because this is not IT?" Anyway few minutes after that a Korean family living next door ask to open the door as they couldn't stay in their room because the rain was entering everywhere. We all had to sit in a corner of the room the only corner that was without water.
At 6h30 am the light of the day started to show us the reality of things and we could see trees flying to crush on the next door house and the horizon was not showing a jungle anymore but the sky on kilometers.
Well i can say at least we have known our new neighbors, they were really worry so we started to make joke and all.
The wind stopped round 1 pm to let place to big rain. We came out of the room around 3 pm and couldn't believe the landscape. Nearly all trees were down. But what i saw then were amazing: All the Indian people started working together, laughing and talking and in a couple of hours the road were cleared out for the main village. Everyone started to work together even Lhasa and me to help to make tea and clearing out all the trees. it seemed to bother no one. To the day of today we are one week without water or electricity. I find internet like today in the unit were they have solar energy. It is an amazing experience for this new year 2012. A beautiful one :) Since then, we play, we talk, we share, we read, we find all the pleasure of not having electricity. I Love cold shower also and i am not missing hot shower. When there is none of artificial way of living every single moment in a house such as television and internet and video game we learn how to be all together again. Even today i came in a bar where there is Wifi and everyone is talking to eachother because it is a bar.
Géraldine DENIS | 6 January 2012 at 13:18
Wow, what an experience!!!
We are glad you two are okay.
Gsvin & Geraldine