Towards the end of 2016, Melissa Petro (writing coach, author & smart lady) organized a writer’s retreat in former Ceylon, now known today as Sri Lanka an island off the Southern tip of India…

I don’t have many photos left of this journey but you can check my tiktok/@lamismalunayoga for a very short clip of a TukTuk aka a mototaxi in some other shithole…

We spent a week sampling all types of Sri Lankan curry and other culinary cuisine from that region.

I saw monkeys throwing bananas at the locals in a yoga shala, a monitor lizard or komodo dragon and the ocean that year was hotter than South Beach!

Their written language appears to be similar to Laotian or Thai but I am not that gringo enough to ask a series of questions… because … although on my last Duolingo account I scored very high in Russian, Spanish and French and just started Arabic this year I realized that entire fucking app is rigged for fucking Cubans. So fuck it.