Monday, January 7, 2008

OVER AND OUT (for now)

hii guyys! so i think is going to be my last travel blog for my trip which is weird! sadly its going to probably be poorly written and shit because i havent slept since 5am sunday morning and its now 6.30 monday night (plus 10 hours for time difference ) so its safe to say i am officially rooted.

okay so friday we got up pretty late and had this traditional german breakfast which albert prepared especially.. german beer, huge pretzels, white sausage and sweet mustard. really nice actually.s at around talking and eating until about midday then michael and i headed for the snow. got this jhuge ass chairlift up and over the mountain with a gorgeous view of the alps on one side and all the houses and villages of bavaria on the other. it was friken cold as, i looked like a marshmellow man and kept falling over but we still had lot of fun. slipped over all these mountains and sat up at this high peak in the snow overlooking the mountains. so relaxing and beautiful. okay i have to hurry cause we have to board now,. but we went down the mountain later amnd i tried snowboarding which was funny. stuck to the baby slope with all the posh european kids who kicked my ass. but according to michael i didnt do too bad but i think he might have just been being nice. it was really fun though!! that night we had another nice dinner with albert and inge and sat around drinking talking and listening to music. the next morning we slept in then left iんthe afteroon. okay will continue this once im back in aus cause i have to leave! cyaaa down under bitches

okay so im back in queensland now whoo but will quickly finish off the last few travel days of my trip although it seems quite pointless now i know i will regret it later. so that afternoon we drove back to michaels parents place and had a nice dinner with them they were very lovely people too:). went to bed quite late and got up about 4 hours later to drive to frankfurt station to get the train. I had a really great time in germany and really loved my few unexpected days there. so anyway got on the frankfurt train and started actually getting weird feelings about it. I regularly use the 'white light' method over this trip when I have been travelling and I found it really hard to visualise the white light on this specific train (for those not aware of the light white method its basically this hippy visualisation method where u picture a white light surrounding yourself or the plane/car/person and it helps protect you/keep u safe etc) i find it comforting especially on dangerous tro-tro rides but yes there is likelyhood its a load of bullshit too:P but anyway about 15 mintues into the jounrey the train kept stopping intermittenatantly and eventually after sitting there for half an hour they were like sorry gusy we are heading back to frankfurt youll have to get another train. i was shitting myself at this stage because I had to be on a train at 3 int he afternoon and I wasnt sure whether id make it on time but anyway there was no fighting it and we went back to the station waited another 20 minutes then got on another train. met a nice dutch singer on the way there and the toverhead train dirver provided comical relief. when we were nearing amsterdam me and the singer lady checked out the timetable and realised i would be cutting it very thin to even get on my plane. so i ran up to the conducter and told him my probelm. then the next stop he directed me to get off the train and then me and this albanian guy (who also needed to catch a plane at 3) qwere raced through a station to a shuttle bus which they held for us so we could get to the airport on time! it was very good and I made it there with a bit of time to spare!! fuck it was an adventure though. anyway amsterdam- japan flight was probably the worst ive had. couldnt sleep at all but met a nice guy from kenya who now lives in australia and was catching the same connecting flight as me so we hung out at the airport and got lost and confused together which was good. had ten hours at the airport. went to a japense resteraunt there and ordered some weird food. i was going to ujust get maccas because i was by myself and not feeling that daring but i was like no vanessa dont be a comfort zone loser bitch. so i went o the resteraunt by myself and mastered the chopsticks like a pro which made me feel kool hahaha ahh...anyway slept on the couchesd with wyclef the kenyan and got the quantas flight down to sydney. sat n4ext to some kool uk people but absically slept the whole flight because I hadnt slept in like 48 hours or close to it and literally could not even see properly i was so tired. anyyywaayyyy back in australia now. had to pay 60 bucks to customs to get my drum gamma rayed or something weird so hopefully that goes okay but otherwise things went very smoothly..oh and one of the german beers i bought for my dad smashed in ym abckpack so now my entire bag smells of german beer..mmm hahah but yeah man im back in australia. i am so happy and motived for this year and really excited about what may come along. what an amazing trip ive had. i have learnt so much and am just so happy i did it. i was meant to go and am mkoving up and onwards. thanks for reading see you in melbourne in a week guys!!

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