Sect?

Wow. So yesterday was "community night" at the yoga centre. And oh boy what a feast for the eyes it was. Where to start... Ok, so the hall was set with mats and cushions on the floor, tables with food, chairs in a semi circle for sicussion, a projector, and best of all, a sort of shrine to an indian guy in an orange robe who's supposedly the founder of yoga in daily life, the name of the centre. The shrine is normally covered by some curtains, but for this oh so special occasion they were opened to reveal a sort of family tree of indian yoga masters, a candle, and an orange. Orange seems to be king in this place, there was pumpkin, carrot and sweet potato soup for dinner and they seemed delighted when we said we'd make carrot cake as a contribution. We helped to cook all day, I got blisters and cuts from peeling 8 pumpkins. The night before Elena and I had spent all night baking, not just the carrot cake, but banana bread and cookies. These were all extra hours that we shoukdn't have done but we wanted to help, but nobody thanked us at any point and on top of that left us all the washing up to do from the party. We were also expected to attend the talk on Karma yoga, but we left when the DVD started...
So we were pretty fed up by the end of the night, but happy that we had Sunday off. We woke up this morning to see more tasks written on the board. Sunday is sacred ok? Elena was tempted to write "yeah right" next to the said duties (which included even more washing up). And we wouldn't mind if people were nice to us but they just seem to ignore us and let us get on with whatever.
It was nice to get out today and walk along the riverbank, it was a beutiful day too. We spent some time at West bank, which is the modern area of Brisbane, it has a fake beach and everything. It was market day todays and there were loads of cute cafes and a lot of people with sunglasses. We met a really nice Australian couple who were just really nice and took an interest in us and wanted to help us with suggestions as to where to go and where to avoid. We wanted them to adopt us, and take us away from the orange sect!
We are not gonna stay at this place for as long as we'd anticipated, obviously. So we went to a young person's travel agency and they've sorted out an amazing couple of weeks up the coast. They've been so helpful and just suggested nice plces to stop at, cheap accommodation, buss pass, trips, tours, the whole lot. We have to go see them on Tuesday to check how much it's gonna cost us. But we're pretty determined on getting the hell outta here!! Some of the activities include, koala spotting in natural parks, kayaking with dolphins, Fraser and Magnetic islands (just off Townsville), whale spotting, snorkelling in the Whytsundays, etc. We're excited for this and feel like this is what we should be doing, and not cleaning clean toilets every single day just for the sake of it.
We're looking forward to a little photo shoot in the centre, as we've found a set of orange robes belonging to the indian guy, we think he might be imaginary. The photos of him are probably off google.
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