As the journey continues

Ok I will continue with telling this story, last paragraph I wrote on May 31st and it went like this:

"Many local hindi guys start to gather around me, but I am too tired to talk to any of them too much, so I simply hand them the piece of paper where is written: Govardhan Ecovillage. I believe that they will find it, they usually have smartphones there. And indeed, soon they talk with each other a lot and then come back to me with an answer, that I am 200km in the wrong direction and I should go back to the train station.

I say that I don't have any money to continue that way."

When they understand that I have no money with me, they are surprised and ask for my true purpose. I think that they would not understand if I told them that I am just travelling around in an unknown area; so I tell them that I am a pilgrim and point up to the sky to refer to god; and I tell them that there's a temple at Govardhan Ecovillage, I thought that this was something they would understand in their language, a pilgrim attempting to reach a temple.

So this pilgrim story they indeed understand and soon I am taken with them to a local shop or a restaurant, where they offer me food and water. Later when they give me water I become quite popular in that area, they gather around me on the street, like 50 of them or something, and I sit on a wall or a stone table at a cafe' next to a local guy I think.

Now I have this simple bamboo flute in my bag from Shri Krishna Homestay, and even though I cannot play it properly, I say to myself: I'm gonna play a real Krishna to them and see what happens. So I take out this flute and sit on that wall and then blow this bamboo flute pretty much randomly; this is so much fun and I laugh and laugh and become so joyful (I understand the comedy of the situation a bit). The crowd is also amazed and a bit surprised of course and finds it also quite funny.

I remember noticing a very beautiful local woman who laughs in surprise and amusement and looks me into my eyes for a second. She was truly beautiful and smiling! As the concert ends, it is time for me to go towards that eco-village.

They offer me a back-seat on a motoroller and take me nicely to the train station (where I had walked off before, it was quite a few miles, I can tell you). They buy me a ticket to the right station and one friend of theirs is also coming on the train.

Now what happens is quite fun. News spread and now they know this story that I have no money. Then one guy takes out 100 rupis and says: here you go. I accept and I am very thankful and joyful. The other guys see this one friend giving me 100 rupis and they're like: wait a minute! We're not any worse than this guy! And soon like ten guys give me 100 rupis each, so I think I had 1100 rupis pretty soon and riding on with a free ticket.

I will make a stop here but the journey towards Govardhan Ecovillage will continue.