My Review of 2013 from January to June

It is the last day of the year again. Amazing how fast those 365 days went by! Again, it was a year full of events and emotions and I would like to share my personal year’s review with you.

January

We started the year 2013 together with friends at the Ashram. Thomas, Iris and a few more were there to welcome another year. Although it was thus a quite happy and jolly beginning, our January was still under the impression of Ammaji’s recent passing away. The pain was still fresh and we cried a few times with our friends who remembered her together with us.

That’s how we didn’t do a big celebration for Apra’s birthday last year. We did have gifts though, of course, and naturally she was very excited, too. Presents, the attention of everyone around – which child wouldn’t love that?

February

In February our Ayurveda Yoga Holiday started and we were able to welcome a few groups to our Ashram as well. In that time we had to make once more the experience that you cannot make people happy who come to you with wrong expectations. Those who had informed themselves before however had a great time and big benefits from their retreat.

In February an exciting start was made: the first steps were taken for building the first floor of our school!

March

March started for me with some unusual amount of activity outside the Ashram: my best friend Govind had had an accident and was in hospital. I regularly went to visit him and to see how he was doing. It was nice to spend this time with him – even if it was for a not so nice reason!

Ramona’s father came to visit us in mid-March, to celebrate Ramona’s birthday with us. After many years it was the first time for them to be together on this day and it was definitely a memorable event of 2013! He also joined the Holi celebrations, together with Thomas, Iris, Sylvia, Melanie and other friends and it got very colourful before most of them took off for touring the Himalayas!

April

The amount of visitors at the Ashram reduced in April, as usual when the heat starts, and Yashendu left for his travels in Europe. We were not bored at the Ashram though: Ramona and I had lots to do to prepare for our own trip to Germany together with Apra!

May

While the school work continued and slowly took shape in May, we made the last high-speed preparations before Ramona, Apra and I took off to Germany in the middle of May.

Wiesbaden was the first station of our baby’s first big trip. After some necessary purchases – a car seat, a stroller and more – as well as some paperwork, we could fully enjoy seeing how Apra marveled at all the new things she saw. Amazement didn’t stop when we continued our journey to her German grandparents!

June

We travelled nearly the whole month of June throughout Germany, visiting Sonja and Peter in Erkelenz, Michael and Andrea in Luneburg, meeting Regina and Celina at the Baltic Sea beach and many more friends at these stations. Finally again Augsburg and Wiesbaden and after this wonderful trip, we returned safely back to the Ashram. Wow, these were definitely the most eventful weeks of the year!

And as the post is getting long and there is still much to tell, I will go on with the description of the rest of the year tomorrow. I wish all of you a wonderful end of this day, month and year and a great start into the year 2014!

Tine 30/11/-0001 Log in to Reply

It is always impressive what all can happen in only one year. Compared to 20 or 30 years one year does not seem to be a long distance. But only one adventure in this year could change someones life forever. I wish everybody a happy and eventfully new year!