Football

For all of you who have still not understood why Football is the best sport ever invented... well, here's the explanation... no further words necessary...

I had my little lost in translation experience here, being stuck at Schiphol in Amsterdam for about 5 hours. I heard the message “Passenger X, travelling to Y, you are delaying the flight. Proceed to gate Z immediately. We will proceed unloading your luggage.” About a trillion times. I know now where the most comfortable seats are, I figured that I love these moving bands that run along the gate where you can get on and you don’t have to walk.

All in all I can say that I love airports. But not only because of the things mentioned or the flight attendants (women in uniform… :P), but especially because of the international athomsphere. There are so many different colors, types of clothing, behaviours to observe. It’s phantastic.

I enjoyed waiting here a lot, but still I wanna get on that plane… but there is still a huge line in front of the gate...

Final post

Esta es mi post final hoy dia. I think after so many posts of today, even Gorjans RSS feeder won’t be hungry anymore.

I love airports. I know I’ve talked about that already, but I forgot to mention one important thing. They are fascinating to observe. I mean from a logistical point of view. I think being manager of an airport, where everything is interlinked and planes have to be ready as fast as possible would be a very special and interesting job.

Now a little outlook. I’m sitting here in the plane from Panama City to San Salvador. We’re probably gonna be late. But I feel like a child before Christmas. I know something good is going to happen, but I have no idea what that will be. I know I’m going to another country, but I have no idea how it looks like. It is going to be my conquest of paradise, the unknown. New people, new places, new activities…

And I think my caffeine immunity becomes slightly scary. I bought some sweets containing caffeine yesterday to stay awake while travelling. But even thought I nearly ate the whole package, I still fell asleep at every possible moment. I missed all of Cuba (I mean overflying it).

I hope that this experience will foster my belief in the good of people, that I can continue being open to people I don’t know. But so far I have made very good experiences with Salvadorian people. I really do not worry, I am just very excited.

Hola a todos

Hola a todos

Estoy a Panama.

So much for spanish right now… It’s been a long day for now. My second longest day in my life. Only the one when I was flying to Anchorage was longer. But on the other hand I haven’t arrived yet and we don’t know what might still happen.

Weather isn’t that nice, lots of clouds. But I still got a decent view on the islands off the coast of Panama (Carribean Sea Side). They are amazing. I would love to go diving there. I hope I’ll have similar islands in ESAL. Getting out of the plane I had a temperature shock. I felt like pasta being cooked, very humid, very hot (29 degrees). But I’m excited.

All in all, there is a lot of déja vus. The water tabs for example are the same as in Alaska. And I’ve seen the Pacific again. I know that it’s only a rather large area of water as all the other oceans. But the fact being on the shores of the pacific again bring back lots of memories.

They have no bookshop in the whole airport, that was kinda unpleasant.

It gets dark here much earlier than in Switzerland. We’re closer to the equator, it’s obvious but it’s still fascinating how that changes your daily routine (not that I would have one today, going through 8 time zones), but I still did not expect it to get dark so fast.

Call it hope, but I can feel that there is a completely different vibe here. I get looked at differently, making a very good impression as American tourist… ;) This will be an amazing experience and challenge. But I am ready and very much looking forward to it.

I am extremely thankful that I got the opportunity to do this. And I’m even more thankful for all the support I experienced back home. This is nothing ordinary. You are all great!!!

From Heaven to Paradise

Hola a todos

This is my last blog entry from Switzerland before (or better) while I’m leaving Switzerland.

First of all I would like to mention that this blog entry is destined to feed Gorjans RSS Feeder. Yeah, I know it’s been a while since I wrote my last entry.

The last couple of weeks were a blast. I realized that I love certain people much more than I anticipated. Typically for me, I realized that only when I was leaving them, but at least I did. Leaving isn’t that easy anymore. For me, having my personal freedom is very, very important and knowing that I’m kinda restricted in my departures is weird to me.

I wanted to thank all my friends for making my departure such a weird and new experience, for the joy and the laughter we shared, for the opinions and feedbacks you gave, for the hugs, for the kisses, for the discussions… I could go on…

I am pretty sure that I will have similar experiences with my new friends in ESAL, but it will be different and you all will have a certain place in my heart.

Now we just started…I leave my life in Swizerland behind me and it is kinda like the clouds down there. There have been up and downs, but I wasn’t myself if I wouldn’t have forgotten most of the downs already.

Hearing me talk about Swiss people and the country was not always a pleasure. At times I expressed my dislike of certain things in Switzerland quite stonrgly. I had to leave. But not only to get rid of these things, but also to redisover what is good in Switzerland.

All the ghings have their good side. I learne3d that when I was quite young around the age of 8 with the example of fliees. They are wuite annoying I found, but they help transform biological waste into earth again. Everything has its place. I haven’t quite found mine, but I hope I’ll get to travel all around the world in the search of it.

Next stop for now is El Salvador. A countfry with wonderful coffee.. I think I’m going to be very happy there.Chilling out at the beaches, enjoying the latin lifestyle, learning Spanish. It will be amazing.

Another thing that is amazing is the EURO. I think it was so far a great success. It is beautiful to see all these people walking thorugh Geneva, people from different countries singing together. It showed how much sport can bring us together. It was been a very non-violent experience so far. It’s been very well. And the dutch XP in Bern, which I unfortunately had to miss out on, has been impressive to look at… The Euro is kinda like an AIESEC party just with older people… ;P

Well, that’s all for now..