thank you

hello
Thought i'd just drop a quick note while i am here at the computer. Some of you have been sending me some wonderful emails sharing what is going on in your lives and i want to tell you all... thank you! I am so happy to read news from home, it makes me not feel so far away and it makes my heart smile everyday when i read. Thank you.
So i just booked a ticket for kathmandu, nepal. (now my mom is singing the song "kathmandu"). I have to go there to get a new indian visa for the next few months. It will be in January when i go, which is probably not the coziest time to visit there, but my teacher training starts here at the end of January so i have no choice. I met the teachers of the teacher training i had been considering and both the teachers and the ashram are great, i am happy to report, and i feel that my waiting and researching and holding out has paid off, or will pay off, in the form of a very good quality education and experience of learning how to teach yoga.
I have two weeks left at the guest house here before i move to another place for november and december. It will be an ashram offering a course in yoga therapy and ayurvedic cooking, so i am looking forward to that.
I will be happy to go back into the ashram environment by then, after being in the real world and fending for myself for the past couple weeks.
The guest house is as nice as it gets, but it is not so cozy for the winter as it is the corner room facing east, the direction the winds blow from in the morning. I am going to be glad to not be there for the coldest months of december and january. It is a good room in the late afternoon when the breezes start up again and blow softly billowy through, its like hawaii then. but not at 5am. At 5 am when i want to be getting up, that chilly morning wind is blasting through the cracks in the windows and under the door where there is a space of about half an inch. (i don't think the indians have heard of weather stripping) . Maybe that's why the yogis get up at 4 to meditate, because its too darn cold to sleep anymore. haha.
Coziness factor aside, things are fine. It seems like time is going by incredibly fast.
If anyone feels inspired to send pictures... i love getting them.
peace and love all around.