Yesterday during lunch I was asked to make a special balloon for the head guru here. I had mixed feelings – I’ve never seen him smiling and that tells me balloons aren’t his “thing”. I was asked to wait on the side until he’d finish his lunch. I was concerned that I’d be late for a yoga class done by a Chinese group. At the end of his lunch I watched as he left… no balloon! I was a little late for the class.
It was a friendly, playful class. Afterwards I made some balloons for the group and they asked me to join them in their group picture. Annie wasn’t with me so I don’t have a picture of the “family, Where’s Waldo photo”
As Annie was leaving our dorm room she saw a crowd walking by and noticed the head guru was leading the way. She stood on the side to take a close photo when she noticed he was giving hugs to everyone along the way. She got a bear hug from him.