Feliz Natal!

Me & my ideal Christmas gift...

Still enjoying a vida! My travel plans have changed and so I spent Christmas at a family party in Salvador instead of floating along the Amazon. This city is really amazing, so much art, music, dance, rythm, party going on. I definitely wanna come back for Carneval! Right now I am thinking about where to go. The only things I know is that I will be in Belo Horizonte in January and intend to volunteer in a Rainforrest Research Center in Rosário da Limeira in March and April. This schedule allows me to spend almoast another month to travel back to Recife and then home.

Tudo bem na Brasil!

Here are the first travel pictures!

During the long flight to Recife I already met some nice Brazilian people. Then, arriving at the airport trying to get organized, I ran into Timur from Germany because we both wanted to stay at a hostel. What can I say that other than that from that moment on, everything went on pretty well! We stayed for two nights in a really sweet hostel with lovely people, checked out the beach, city and food and I thought that I was really lucky to be on this warm, colorful, friendly, corner of the earth full of music, sun, joy and cachaca :) These days where followed by trips to other cities along the coast full of activities like swimming, learning to surf and capoeira, dancing (forro, a local dance), making new friends, small and bigger live concerts, hanging out at the beach day and night, eating very well (fresh fruits and black beans are my favourite), riding a motorbike in the back and doing nothing but relax. A couple of days before I went with some Brazilians to Joao Pessoa to visit a friend"s home. Since then, I haven"t been able to speak anything other than Portugnol, a soft version of Spanish. The idea is to modify my Spanish more and more so that in the end I speak perfect Portuguese. Well, facing reality, I must admit that it only works sometimes. This is really strange: Sometimes I can have a really long conversation and other times I don"t understand a bit. Nice challenge!
What I really like besides all the obvious things is that here life is time and weightless. Wearing only a bit more than a bikini, without cell phone, iPod, watch, schedule and just a backpack it is pretty easy to feel free and explore. And Christmas! Well, here are obvious signs that this "event" is gonna happen soon but I don"t feel it! How can you feel like Christmas when you have your real serious sunburn? I still don"t have any precise plans about the next months other than that I want to work on an organic farm and do some volunteer work. Vamos ver :)
PS: There are so many more pictures I wann take but my camera became really bitchy and recently fell into a deep coma...

Just found this

Bucuresti > Odessa

By bus
As far as I know, buses run only from Galati to Odessa, not from Bucharest; I could be wrong though and you could contact Bucuresti Filaret Bus Station for more accurate information:
Autogara FILARET, Piata Garii Filaret nr. 1, sector 5, Bucuresti
Between Galati and Odessa cross Moldova and you need a Moldovan transit visa which you get in Bucharest. Without crossing Moldova, you could go Bucharest - Shmerinka by sleeper and then from there on by domestic UZ train:
Bucuresti Nord 07.40 - Shmerinka 08.57 R382/R60KJ (only sleepers)
Shmerinka 10.24 - Kuchurgan 15.43 R65MJ
Kuchurgan 16.57 - Odessa Golovna 18.15 R658ZJ
Or, more comfy, even though longer:
Bucuresti Nord 07.40 - Kiev Passajerskaya 13.46 R382/R60KJ (only sleepers)
Kiev Passajerskaya 17.28 - Odessa Golovna 05.27 R661KJ


By Plane Timisoara – Odessa (8 hours)
www.CarpatAir.com




By train
Trains are not always daily in Ukraine, check out http://www.uz.gov.ua/ for updates.
http://www.uz.gov.ua/index.php?m=services.transppl.schedule&f=Schedule.Stan&lng=uk
close to Eroilor Metro Station:
The Consulate of Republic Moldova
Bd. Eroilor nr.8, Sector 5
Mon - Fri: 8.00-16.00


By car Not possible by rental car


By boat Varna – Odessa (1 day) Check out this boat schedule!

Sounds of Romania broumm broumm (constructions going on), boum boum (house music everywhere), wuff wuff (dogs on every corner), honk honk (crazy drivers)
Sounds of the Ucraine miaow miaow (cats looking for food being cute), clic clac (beautiful women in high heels), honk honk, broumm broumm

Lazy skin

Applied wine label

My first wine label

At work

Poetry Slam

It takes place every 2nd Sunday at SUBSTANZ (Munich). Be there early at 7.00pm and prepared to wait. So bring some beer and food... However, the slam is worth waiting! Cover fee: 3,- € This is a video that Matt, one of my CS guests has compiled.

More information:

No food - no fun!

How do you feel without eating for a while? I heard that after a while you would feel very light, full of energy and inspired. Curious like I am I wanted to check that out. Three years ago I failed in doing that but this time I did it! No food during a week! To tell you the truth – I didn’t enjoy it and I wouldn’t recommend it. Well, maybe I shouldn’t have worked at that time and should have relaxed more… In any case I never felt that flush of energy until I had my first meal. It was so amazing, I could really feel (and my friends, who were with me too) how life and strength came back into my body. Well the price for my struggles was my new appreciation of food, wine and cooking. I so enjoyed eating, tasting the food, feeling the consistence in my mouth and sharing it with someone. Okay, I would recommend it, but only if you have time and tranquillity. This is how I felt during the week

Sing your thing

I started singin in a young and fresh choir. We practice once a week and singall kinds of German and international songs - a variety that appeals to me. It’s a self-organised choir and there are only young people. I love it!

SchiSchoole

Erster Versuch...
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