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Here I am in Hanoi. arrived yesterday and it felt like I'd never been away! Haven't seen much of Hanoi though- arrived around midday and spent the rest of the day recovering from a very bad journey. I don't recommend thai air! Also read the not very clear luggage rules wrong and had to ditch half the things I brought with me at the airport. This was surprisingly easy- it's amazing how much you dont need stuff you think you need!Currently in a hotel in hanoi, which is very luxurious, but laid in bed last night and felt a bit lonely- but thats only to be expected. It's raining here right now- very warm but light drizzle- I'm off to the embassy today and see some apartments. Venturing out alone! It's amazing how I don't feel any different, this could be denmark or anywhere and I just feel fine. Wherever I lay my computer is home...
So I fly on tuesday. The moving men come monday, the cats go sunday, visa to be picked up tomorrow, same leaving drinks with work. I am packing as fast as I can, but there just seems to still be stuff EVERYWHERE.Danes don't seem very helpful (apart from you Doc ) and rather shy away from offering to help. So I am all alone packing, doing paperwork, still working from home, and a little tiny bit stressed out. I'm gonna need that drink on friday!One of my friends told me the other day he was also fed up with selfish Danes. He even thinks I won't come "home" again...Right now I'm so tired and everything seems a mess... I'm about to drive to my friends house with the contents of my freezer, and then go say goodbye to my language school. Oh no i forgot to pick up the dollars I ordered! Tomorrow I guess!!!This is crazy. Moving life in one week. At the moment I don't recommend it!
So flights are now booked. I fly ouit October 30th.. next tuesday. Panicking a bit now, haven't much time or energy to pack. Have leased my apartment, sorting out all the visa documentation today has been crazy. And now I'm starting to think, of all the people I will miss, now peopel have started to say they will miss ME! I mean it's only 6 months- and it will fly by, but I will miss people. And my cats :(But it's all for the good if I come back a better person, right? And I intened to see some of asia, hardly seen any of it- so I can use hanoi as a base to see as much as I can :)Can't wait to eat proper food again- getting fed up with burgerking/mc d's now!All I need to do now is find my home in Vietnam..oh and pack these darn boxes!!! Where are all these people that call themselves my friends now when I need them???!
If you had told me this time last week that I would have been packing my life into boxes to move to Vietnam- I would have probably laughed at you. But here I am in a frenzied packing spree, and organising an apartment in Hanoi! Life is funny like that.Am I scared. Not at all. Should I be scared? Maybe...I will miss my cats, and I hate giving them away, they are like family to me, and they know something is going on, but theyre not quite sure what...I know life in Hanoi is going to be different, but I am ready for chnage, and I need to change myself and my outlook on life. I need to find myself :)
Just back from Hanoi and I loved the city so much. It has such a nice peaceful feeling and the people are so nice.
So I have decided to move there for 6 months, and if I can access my blog (this blogsite is banned from vietnam) I will blog my experience and leave pretty pictures :)
I need to shake myself and life up, and I need to get away and think about where I am going and what I am doing. Where better than to do this in an exciting city I love.
For the next 6 months I plan to take good care of myself, and my health and work hard. I have a lot of thinking to do! I need to develop more as a person, and perhaps learn more peace and less stress the buddist way.Wish me luck!
You are both right of course, there should be happiness in these bloggings too. Fine. So I am back here to say despite the flu, hormones, and illnesses I am happy. I do miss the people I used to hang out with sometimes, but it's for the best I guess.It is nice to have a stable partner though, and whilst we are learning about each other and have our ups and downs it is mostly ups. Work is also going well right now and I am actually enjoying it- some days.Music is on hold, which I am kinda sad about but some things take prescedence.Like sock-monkeys for instance. I love sock monkeys. When(if) I have children I am SO going to make them sock monkeys :) And why is it the word monkey is sooo pleasing?? Ah well the mysteries of life eh? ;)Why is life always about building to the future, and not about living with what you have now? It's always.. one day...but what about TODAY???
Sometimes the observations I have go by unwritten. This is because I am busy living. I would rather experience than write about, but sometimes I do both. You know I don't write when I am happy. Well right now I am happy, not quite content, but none the less satisfied. Things are going ok. I still feel like crap with my stomach, but it's ok. Still looking for a new job, new home etc etc. Some things never change. But living on the outside looking in at life is never very satisfying. So if you wonder where I am. I am out there. Busy living.
Here I am in Hanoi. arrived yesterday and it felt like I'd never been away! Haven't seen much of Hanoi though- arrived around midday and spent the rest of the day recovering from a very bad journey. I don't recommend thai air! 
