Fireflies

In India we stayed at Fireflies, which in Bangalore village. Fireflies was a Ashram, which was a great experience. The rooms had two beds in which of them. The bathrooms were different from the bathrooms in the state here. They didn’t have bathtubs and they had extra water for people to use. For someone who has never been in a village it was great to experience that. The ashram were build out of break inside and outside unlike the houses in the sates here. This was similar to the houses built in my home country Guinea. There were lots of trees around. This is great because it makes it hard to burn down the house in case of any fire breaks out. The surrounding of the house we stayed at had many art works.

There were cement carving of animals, human and religions on them. I liked this cement carve writing about acceptance of other people, embracing different religions. There was also a small temple at the back of the Ashram. The food at the ashram was also great. While there I we were offered a lots of vegetables. It was great that they cooked many things for us even though in the Hindu religion they do not animal. The ashram was a relaxing place to medicated, and we were also able to do yoga there with the help of our yoga instructor, which was great. While staying there we met Buddha Siddhartha.

Buddha Siddhartha was the director of fireflies who been all over the world. He has traveled to America, Africa and Europe. He is social Anthropologies. He give a us a great lecture. In his lecture he explained to us about Mysore tribal issues of land, water, agriculture. Some of this problem had to do with global warming according. He also spoke about Bangladesh flooding which seven million may have to move to India if the flooding continuous. He usually goes to international farmers harvest international conference, which usually takes place every February. He also spoke about India being the second fast growing economy, India political problems, poverty. He told us about Indian poverty in India where most of those people make less than $100 a month. In addition, he spoke about the price of land getting expensive in India which makes it hard for people to buy land. Similarly, people in the village usually have land pass on to them from their family with no written deeds which also makes it hard to prove that it your land, even if you live there, when some company want use the land to build their offices.

Buddha Siddhartha also spoke about good life being simplicity, relationship, care for earth, and friendship. He also spoke about the cast systems which not legal anymore in India. He explained to us different religions in India. He explained to us about the Mouse Movement of Indians who didn’t have documentation of deeds of their deeds, who were force to join to use violence due to the state allowing foreigners to crab their land. I was grateful to be at the Ashram and met Buddha whose lecture was a great learning experience.