Enjoying being home again
Trip Start
Sep 01, 2006
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Trip End
Jan 10, 2007
Hillerød,
Denmark
Saturday, February 3, 2007
- When ridding the train and busses I am actually able to get a seat, and what's more is that the carriages are in no way over crowded even during rush hour I can peacefully sit and read my book.
- And on the "public transportations" note a thing I also enjoy is the better smell, the air is cleaner, the carriages are cleaner, and deodrant is in frequent use by Danish commuters.
- The air I breath does not taste like exhaust fumes, and I do not start every day coughing like someone who has been smoking for 40 years.
- If I'm thirsty I can simply find a tap and get some water, nice and easy.
- I can walk down the street without being bumped into by a gazilion people, and without being starred at as if I were from Saturn. It's now again possible to browse through stores and shops.
Being away for 6½ month is quite a while to be away from home. The first 2 month and a bit were by far the most exiting, each day was full of adventures and full of interesting people. The first period of time was quite intereting, at least when I got over the vomiting and frequent runs to the toilet part, there was a campus to get to know, a neighbourhood to see and a flat to settle into. But a little too fast everything because trivial, even almost boring. Days came and went without one thinking about it, boring and monotonous. Only going to school Monday through Thursday was nice, but having classes from 1pm to 5 pm was in no way funny; I was at school while everybody else was off and about, and meeting at 1pm makes you lazy, why go early to bed, when you don't have to get up early..? Also only seing the same eleven people everyday kinda makes you crazy, I also makes you a little detached from your other classmates, since you never see them.
The trip back to Denmark went nice and easy, well the seven hours of waiting in the airport in Beijing was not really nice, but I got through them, spent a little time saying goodbye to Arendse and some other of my classmates then at at Starbucks for a while writing and at last boarding my day flight back to Denmark. I don't like long-haul day flights, night and day gets all mixed up, but I got a little rest.
So what's next? Well, first of I have to find out if I passed my written exam, which I took on January 25th, then I have to take a little holiday, get stuff sorted and the like and then I'll be starting school again, school won't be much though, I only have classes on Tuesdays and Thursday, so you can call that survivable. What about next summer then? Since I haven't been working for the past half year I can't really go on a huge trip around the world, so instead I'll be going to London for a couple of weeks. I've never really been in London, only a couple of hours on my way to Llangollen in Wales, and it is after all one of the metropols of Europe. Eventhough it is not as adventorous as Cambodia I'm still sure I'll have a nice trip.
So, I guess that's all I have to tell you about now.
Take care, hugs from me
