All set for Moscow

I asked Ivonne if I can put her e-mail regarding Wilma and the celebration on my blog for everyone to read and she said yes, it's fine so here it ist

"Hi: it is now 5 pm on saturday. the wind has subsided quite a bit, though we did have some 45 to 60 mile per hour gusts over the nighttime. wilma is now a category 2 hurricane, winds just over 100 mph. the direction is now to the north at 2 mph, so we have had the worst. for us it is now effectively over, the rest of today and tomorrow will be bands of storm crossing over, and by tomorrow nght it should be over for us completely.
we have had no problems, the building is fine, no floods, even the electricity stayed on the whole time. we havebeen lucky, thanks be to all the candles lit for us.
progreso is having a fun holiday. the malecon is lined with families and tourists from merida playing on the edge of the water and just watching the waves. most of the businesses and offices are closed, it is a great holiday!!
the coast of quintana roo is devastated, even if it is hard to get information about anything outside of cozumel and cancun. we are now looking to see what, if anything, we can do to help the ordinary people of the area. they will be a long time recovering from this, and the damage from emily has not even been finished repairing.
please keep those people in your prayers, they will need it!!
thanks
david, ivonne and abigail"

Yesterday I went to Rebis again where I worked before I left Poland eight years ago. I love visiting Rebis, my old boss and bosses, Tomek and Grazyna, and my former co-workers. I also met there Mr. Jacek Kryg who is a feng shui specialist, has been travelling extensively throughout China, India and Nepal, and who gave me many interesting facts and pieces of advice for my trip. What a great coincidence this was to meet him there! He is the editor of the series of books entitled "East for West" published by Rebis and the book I read recently "The Seat of the Soul" (I forgot to mention that the Polish title is "Siedlisko duszy").

So today I went to the Russian consulate to get the transit visa through Russia. I have to say that I haven't seen more abnoxious and rude people than those working at this consulate... They must hate their job poor things. I also bought today the ticket to Moscow with a stop-over in Warsaw to spent one more day with the Chwist family and to visit Kura's mom since I didn't realize she lives right in the center of Warsaw and I missed seeing her when I went to Warsaw last week. I am looking forward to visiting Kuromatke and I hope she will show me pictures of baby Kura, preferably naked or sleeping in his crib (I hope you don't mind Kura). I love pictures of babies and I am sure Kura was a very sweet and cute baby.

And, also today, I woke up with some kind of extraordinary energy, thinking yes! this is the beginning of a new trip! It will be different than the previous trip. The trip to South America was mostly the trip to encounter the outside environment, the people and different cultures. Something tells me that this trip will be the trip to the inside environment, the trip to the bottom of myself: my body and soul. I think whatever I consciously did during the past two years was bringing me to the point where I would want to look inside and see... I am curious what I will find there...