The first night Pacuale was in bed early and then, about 2am was rustling around in his bedside cabinet.  He made an awful lot of noise rustling through his plastic supermarket carrier bags - really quite annoying as you can imagine.  Silvano - my other companion - had a bleeping alarm which went off at 5.45 - just a little bit loud for my taste - since I use a little watch alarm.  The next night I set my alarm (by the light of my head torch so as not to disturb the others) for 6am and fell sound asleep.  I woke briefly once or twice  - woken by a slight noise - and also Pascuale again rustling through his plastic bags.  I awoke in the morning at 5.45 to Silvano's alarm.  When I checked my watch I discovered that I had set the alarm to go off every hour - so it had been bleeping on the hour all night.  I had slept pretty soundly and only been aware of it once or twice - but I knew Pascuale hadn't been sleeping well and had probably heard the bleep every hour. Oh NOOOO!. 

During the day I looked up my Italian phrase book so that I could learn how to say "I am sorry I was so b----y stupid as to set my alarm to go off every hour" and later had a chance to talk with Pascuale.  Despite the language barrier we managed a conversation during which I apologised for the alarm business.  It turned out Pascuale had been suffering from severe headaches and the rustling around in the middle of the night was him searching for the pain-killers.  I guess the watch alarm didn't really help him much. We had quite a nice chat though, about our respective families and how we were enjoying the Ananda experience.  For Pascuale it seemed that  the escape to the stillness of Ananda kept him sane as he was under a lot of pressure at work - and had a young family too.

The next morning I awoke to Silvano's alarm and went and showered.  While I was in the shower I realised that my watch alarm (in the bedroom) would go off while I was there.  Now to me there are few things more annoying than an alarm which goes on and on and nobody there to switch it off.  Louise often sets the alarm on her mobile but seldom seems to be around when it goes off.  It's like it's set to deliberately annoy me ( I guess it's about time I did some EFT around that issue.) 

So now I know how to say "I'm sorry" in Italian.

I didn't use my watch alarm again - I just relied on Silvano's alarm

Much love

Stan