Friday, July 6, 2007

The life of a backpacker....

- one experience with a flooding toilet is enough to fear flushing toilets forever...
- a different bed almost every day, some good, some bad....
- lonnnng busrides...
- the need of earplugs every night...
- telling the same stories again and again...
- asking and answering the same questions every time: how long are you travelling for, where have you been, where are you going, how long have you got left etc....
- getting itches and bites from flees or bedbugs...
- spending lots of time looking for places to stay or eat, finding out bus- and flightschedules, booking tours, etc....
- unpacking, packing, unpacking, packing, etc...
- saying lots of goodbyes to people you meet....
- in every new place wondering if it is safer to bring your valuable things or to leave them in the hostel....

- bugs that scare the hell out of you....
- looking for internetcafes and laundry-services and cheap places to get a bite to eat..
- being scared from the moment you get off the bus for a short stop that it leaves without you and with your stuff...

BUT also:
- beautiful scenery every day...(that is if you pick the right places :-))
- stunning landscapes, amazing views and sunsets and sunrises like you´ve never seen before...
- meeting nice people...
- eating the dish...
- drinking the drink...
- falling from one ashtonishment into the other, hardly having time to catch your breath from al those beautiful things you see...
- being surprised in a good way about sooooo many things....
- learning something new almost every day....whether it is about yourself or the way people think or live or the culture.....it enriches you....
- looking at your life back home from a distance and value it...

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

beertje is trouwens een zeer flex kat. Eet al maanden uit andere bakjes omdat zijn bakje nog steeds bij mij in de auto ligt.. maakt hem niets uit.. eten is eten..

ga vandaag wimpie van schiphol halen. De berenteller staat op twaalf. dikke kus

Anonymous said...

Wat jij kan...kan ik ook!

Het leven van een werkende Jacq bij WNF...

-de hele dag kijken wie er naar de wc gaat.
-elke dag dezelfde route op fiets, scooter of auto.
-elke dag hetzelfde uitzicht.
-elke dag herrie om je heen, lang leve kantoortuinen.
-elke dag gore koffie.
-elke dag hetzelfde voer in de kantine.
-elke dag hetzelfde werk.

maar ook:
-leuke collega's
-mooi doel om voor te werken.
-mooie foto's, mooie films, mooie verhalen.
-leuke evenementen.
-genieten van de gore koffie