Thursday, July 13, 2006

another Tuesday morning ...

8am at Kuta Beach. Did what I didn’t do enough during this year’s stay on Bali. Took some photos and surfed.

the spot


the people…

the landscape…

Monday, July 10, 2006

Sweet life ...


... on a luxury island will be over soon. Final exams are written. The flight is reconfirmed. I will be mobile again. It’s a strange feeling somehow to be on a holiday now at a place where even work felt like holiday. Having lost daily routine, suddenly I didn’t know what to do with my time and going to the beach seemed not productive to me. I’d love to surf but I don’t know if I am fit enough yet. I will have to enjoy my last two weeks. Then I will move. It will be a step back from the car to a motorbike, a step back from living by the sea and fresh air to living in the concrete and dust of the streets of Vietnam’s major cities, from nature and convenience to urban metropolitan inconvenience. It is not sure yet if I will be in Hanoi or Ho Chi Minh City. Or should I open a language school in Danang? Do not yet have an assurance for any internship and I will probably have to teach English or German for a while, keep on learning Vietnamese and start to prepare for my graduation in Bonn. On 20th my flight goes to Bangkok. There the decision will be made where to go in Vietnam.

...today’s sunset surf was incredibly beautiful. The big red ball was sinking into the shimmering blue ocean against the setting of a purple sky while the yellow full moon was rising above the coast.