MY END OF THE WORLD: 21.12.12. by MAYAS in MEXICO - CHICHEN ITZA

OUR END AND OUR START WITH MAYAS.

THIS WAS MY LAST DAY - THE END OF THE WORLD ACCORDING THE MAYAS OLD CALENDER - ON THE FOOT OF THE MAYA PYRAMID IN CHICHEN ITZA/MEXICO- Yucatan. 

December 21st 2012. 

This should be a new start for the new age. I was feeling here a very strong power of the creative mankind and the humanity. Though the Mayas were intelligent savages, people, they killed each other, people for their rituals. This is the End of the Mayas culture, calender, this is also the sign of the end of the killing of each other, which we do, in name of power, in name of freedom or democracy, or whatever we choose as a symbol of the war, it is a war and we kill. This should be the end of the killing, and agnostic start for the peaceful, respectful and loving age. How challenging it is under so many cultures, nations and religions, how demanding it is for everyone to keep the peace, or own life... who likes to be killed, belongs not in this new age. I hope people will support each other in their respectful behaviour, and their try to live peacefully and loving. This is the new age to envolve it, time for the spiritual approach, not materialistic to our nature, to the sky. 

I was feeling this power there among many thousands people on this place, with this old culture.

Ich befinde mich gerade in Mexiko, bei den Mayas Pyramiden, ich verbrachte dort am 21.12. 2012 das Ende der Welt wohl glücklich, zum Glück war kein Ende, sondern ein Anfang einer neuen Etappe, die bestimmt im Zeichen des Friedens, des guten Geistes und der Liebe gekennzeichnet wird. 

Die Mayas waren sehr schlau, aber sie haben aber auch Menschen getötet, für ihre Rituale. Dies sollte bestimmt ein Ende bedeuten, wann auch wir für unsere egoistischen "Rituale", die wir im Namen der "Weltmacht"& "Welt-Freiheit und Demokratie" führen, die Kriege, die Waffen herstellen, die nicht mehr unsere Macht darstellen sollen. Wir müssen unseren Lebenssinn für den Frieden, das Verständnis und den gegenseitigen Respekt unter unseren verschiedenen Ansichten und religiösen Anschauungen unterstützen, entwickeln, mehr als das.... es ist eine große Herausforderung für uns alle.

Ich habe am Fuß der Mayas Pyramiden, der Ruinen eine große Kraft gespürt, die Kraft der Macht der kreativen Menschheit und allmählichen Menschlichkeit für alle. 

 Tento rok jsem byla 21.12. 2012, primo na konci DNE SVETA podle Maju, primo u jejich pyramid, a stale jsem - v Mexicu a pokracuji dal po stopach Mayu do Stredni Ameriky, posilam Vam vsem odsud krasne pozdravy.

 - At je ta nova dekada teto planety, dekadou miru, porozumeni a respektu mezi tak rozdilnymi narody, jako je nase planeta, - timto skoncil podle Maju svet - Majove byli inteligentni, ale take zabijeli lidi pro sve ritualy, at tento konec je prave znamenim toho, ze uz ani my nebudeme zabijet sebe, lidi pro sve egoisticke politicke cile, pod stity slov svobody a demokracie, at je respekt hlavnim slovem mezi nami... - at zijeme v miru na tehle planete!! To je poselstvi ode me zde z Mexika, primo z Chichen Itza, od Majske pyramidy, kde jsem silne citila lidskost, a lidskou kreativitu... a nekonecno.... 

A miracle: I met Czech people who were the only one I saw how made there peaceful ritual. 

Many people crossed here to honour and say goodbye and welcome the new peaceful age,  it means aswell for Mexico. We beg that this beautiful country and its people find its peace, the guns will be grabbed in the earth and might be destroyed for ever the wars among the drugs.

PART3. CULT OF PHYSICALITY: SPORT IN IOWA CITY.

Already a few days passed and quite a lot of happened.
Today in my blog I am occupied with the CULT OF the AMERICAN PHYSICALITY.


One thing that is on my list of to do here in Iowa City is to make a sport.
There is outside lovely swimming pool near to our hotel.
There is also a great offer for us - writers - to go for free to the FITNESS STUDIO.
It´s just 5 Min. walk! As I discovered this studio I was completely amazed how huge it is! One big building!
In Berlin I used to go to the McFit - for Berlin´s circumstances it´s the hugest (I suppose) fitness studio in the city/Germany. Some voices of people around me just refuse to go in this big studio, they prefer a small one, where is very limited choice of the maschines. In the comparison to this /American studio is the German McFit (which already seems to be very American as the name is...) tinny, small studio. Normal. As well  known in America is almost everything huge so that I am not so much suprised, when I walk through the three floors and besides are two swimming pools, one is quite as big as an olympic size and the other is just smaller for a refreshment. There is also playground for a basketball and tenis.
 I feel comfortable with one floor - with the 2nd floor - it´s enough good for me, there is everything what I need.
 I like the craft training but I won´t exagerate in the dimension of my workouts and in the choice of the maschine, there are really plenty!!! I could spend there three hours. The mood is nice all around. People are occupied with themselves very concentrated on their exercises. Right.
What I mainly ADMIRE is how people exercise - workout here!! What a lovely view on all of them!!! They have in their faces huble and healthy, happy believe in their physical abilities. I feel beside them OUT OF SHAPE! Men & women catter here to extreme fitness buffs, heading toward strength training AND almost -it seems to me as a militaristic exercise. It seems sometimes its a military´s special workout they do. I look at the Men of Steel. Supermen are training here for hours of pumping iron. And this is very inspirational: If I am surrounded by substandart people, I´m not going to workthat hard myself. Here I do! I learn with them to discover the love of pushing myself beyond my notions of limits!!!
I am not used to do it so first of all I must train my mind then my body.  Before I go to the fitness studio I am  interested in training my mind in physical workout which comes...I am preparing for the completion of my 2 hours SPORT. Mind and body and soul should be connected. Mega-pumped!
It is extreme tough how they exercise, they do it as extreme as America can be. I haven´t ever seen such a joy and an imaginative "creative" workout as here. People seem to be happy with their extreme military way of the workouts! Yes, I like their fit, slim, great bodies! They are not fat at all!! So when they eat hamburgers, Frech fries or chicken wings with a big portion of the ice cream or cakes, it´s OK. They can eat that, they lose weight through their hard exercise already here. So I don´t really see fat people here as it´s common to say about the Americans. That´s Iowa City!!? Yes, maybe.  The generall food is really horrible, fat pizzas, hamburgers etc. But with such a fitness studio and a personal steel will they can allow it to eat it. I think we cannot . I cannot. I had to culminate in this studio in tears and sweat but still I am not as extreme as they are. I might be critical, that´s alright, that´s the new goal: American extreme toughness! With the new motto: "Don´t complain  if the work si too hard, or if you pass out, drop a barbell on your head, kettle bell on your toes."

OUTSIDE OF MY FITNESS STUDIO...in the Foxhead bar : not drunk, just fit to dance!

Another SPORT I could admire here was a RODEO.
We went out of the city by the car. It took two hours to arrive to the RODEO ARENA. Sure, Iowa isn´t the capital country of the rodeo races but neverthless for the starter-fans as me it is good enough to enlarge the imagination of this American sport.
I bought immediatly a real cowboy hut - I was drawn into the wild atmosphere of the Western - see below. I wouldn´t say I  become a fan, but I will speak about it with a kind of an adoration for COWBOYS and COWGIRLS athletes. Cowgirls were really amazing strong, riding the horse in a high speed! It was terrifying! Crazy, they risk their life. But again there is a cult of physicality! 
I just argue about the animal cruelty.
Well, everybody knows the iconic silhouette image of a "Bucking Horse and Rider" is a federal and state-registered trademark.
Actually I haven´t seen anything of that before - life. Something on the TV but this was immediatly life and really frighting and terrifying.
 On the programm was: Tie -down roping,  Steer wrestling, Saddle bronc riding, Barebacl Bronc-Riding, Barrel racing (which did also small children 3-8 years old!!) and Bull riding. The event was divided into two basic categories: the rough stock events and the timed events.  
The wild horses trying to shake down the cowboy. Uff, it was very dramatic... I was shouting and trembling about them. As a part of audience I was feeling the adrenalin in me going high by every new wild horse and the strong and crazy cowboy who risks his life. One had felt on the ground and seemed to be breathless.
As a Middleuropean woman I haven´t seen any such kind risk sports as this one or others are. We don´t have such extremes sport - just football /socce, voleyball, basketball etc. Killing or using animals for races isn´t familiar to me. So. I was glad that this isn´t sport about the killing the animals - the cruelty and the stress was enough - enough stress had the baby calfs who were tortured by running and then tied by the lariat of the cowboy - Tie-down-roping- discipline.
Roping competitions are based on the tasks of a working cowboy, who often had to capture calves and adult cattle for branding, medical treatment and other purposes. The cowboy must throw a type of rope with a loop, known as a lariat or lasso, over the head of a calf or onto the horns and around the hind legs of adult cattle, and secure the animal in a fashion dictated by its size and age.
My favorite discipline was: ROUGH STOCK - BRONC  RIDING - Competition.
The risky riding on the wild horse or bull...
Bronc riding is - I read about - , where the rider uses a specialized western saddle without a horn (for safety) and hangs onto a heavy lead rope, called a bronc rein, which is attached to a halter on the horse...and rides!
That was a beautiful show I would say. We all enjoyed it!
Back to IOWA CITY full of our passive adventure!! Still admiring the physicality of the Cowboys/Cowgirls!!
Till yet we have had a very beautiful weather here, good to make sport along the IOWA RIVER just next our hotel.
I am jogging and meditating here at the river and in this small city full of little surprises!!
Today 11/9 - Indian Summer and everywhere in the ground small American flags. I like that patriotic SPORT! Honour to own people who die for the country.
It´s a sweet cult of the love.

YEAH! RODEO GIRL!!!

OUR TEAM ON RODEO!