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By China at 2:35 PM

I am going to spend the summer with my friend Alex and I know it is going to be a blast. She is so much fun and she and I get along really well. I know this will be a very interesting summer. She lives a very interesting life style. She believes in eating a strict vegetarian diet, takes herbs and homeopathy for what ails her. She is very into health, meditation and exercise, which truthfully will be quite a change from my current fast food, dorm party existence, a little less than a holistic existence in my "normal" realm. In any case, I think it will be a really great thing to spend a few months trying a different, alternative lifestyle. She assures me that once I spend the summer with her, I will never stop living healthy. Alex swears that once you experience how much better you feel living a clean lifestyle you will never go back to junk food and alcohol. I guess I will soon find out if this is true.

She has already warned me about Dahn Yoga classes which she goes to religiously 3 times per week. She tells me that Dahn Yoga will really help me get control over my mind and will center me both physically and emotionally. I assured her that I am fine and the few times I have tried yoga I have found it extremely mundane, but she swears that I will love this form of yoga. She says she noticed the differences immediately, and that in addition to helping her be more centered, she has also noticed that her overall health has improved significantly. She says that this form of yoga was founded in Korea thousands of years ago and has been adapted to be used today. Alex says that the brain is the center of the teachings and that getting control of your mind is the key to all success in life. It can not only help with your physical health, but it can help you affect the whole universe.

Well, quite honestly I don't really want to affect the whole universe, but I would like to feel a little less tired and would really like to feel more balanced. I look forward to the challenges that this new lifestyle will provide me, and am grateful that in the end if I don't like them, I can return to my "normal" life unharmed.