This post is about love. I can't express it any other way...
In Krasnoyarsk some nice russians brought me by car to my next host Anya. It was morning but she was waiting for me with hot chickenwings and other things to eat. She had to go to work soon, but i got my freedom with some keys and could feel like a human again after taking a shower after such a long time...
River Jennissi is a monster! In town at least 400m wide, maybe even much more, difficult to guess or messure because it is divided in several arms. Town itself is not unbelievable interesting, but you know that my travel is more about people but sights.
The situation in Krk and Russia as far as i saw it is as followes: many roads have really big holes and cars should go slow, but you know some of these russian drivers =) the driver with the most courage qnd fastest car goes first, not the one who would be because of traffic rules ^^ almost all cars already had some smaller or bigger accidents.
Another funny thing while travelling: it happens quite often, that russian words sound like german swearwords or vice versa. This led to many funny situations. Also many russian words are difficult to pronounce for me, so it happened e.g. that i said: 'you have a nice ass' instead of 'you have a nice garden' :D
First night in Krk i was mit Anya and her friends dancing in a club with live music. Amazing! After only some 90 minutes sleep another surfer, Nikolai, took me some siberian-short-distance (350km each direction) to a trip to amazing nature with fields and salty lakes, and of course cute little siberian villages. Cows and chicken live on the village streets there, and also 'big' streets don't need any asphalt. A man we met on our way gave us some piroggen as a present - just like that, without any talking! =)
Later another day in town i got discount in a taxi, only because the driver has once been in Berlin and i congratulated for his cute 'Guten Tag'.
I love the hospitality of russians!
Friends of Anya took me to the big electricity producing dam of Jennissi. We went to a bar or restaurant several times and it was always good company. Anya was for me like the sister i never had. Great sense of humour and at least as crazy as i am. :P
Here is a big sorry to all of my pupils: Now I know once more that my handwriting is really bad. It happened twice or more up to now, that i wrote my mail address for people i met and they never contacted me because it was not good to read. Dear pupils, I will try to train my handwriting! But once again faith was on my side, i don't know why I should earn this grace. But when i just left my hosts house, Masha, a girl I met in train tipped me on the shoulder!!! One out of million inhabitants!!! This trip is sooo awesome up to now. I am missing words...
Even though Anya and I were more like friends than surfers i decided to move to another surfer who invited me to her home - Raisa. She lives together with her boyfriend, mother and sister and I was her first couchsurfing experience. For me it was perfect. I was like in a hotel. I saw a russian datcha, walked with her family through the woods to find some lost shoes and ate many tasty things. And I will be missing our evenings of watching photos of previous trips...
It went like it had to be - i got older another year. On my birthday i was picked up from Asya, Natasha and Nikita for a trip to Stolby, a beautiful nature reservation close to town. We went there walking and climbing, the pictures pretty much speak for themselves I think. Just one story: On this big rocks we were climbing there was also a girl with guitar sitting. And she played some music and sang just for me when I asked her to do... oh, and on top of the hill in about 60m height i became a real 'Stolbyist': 15 slaps with a shoe on my ass while bended over a stone and 15 loud shouted 'thanks' from me :D What a perfect way to spend my birthday.
In the evening there was party at Anyas flat with here friends i already knew. These guys and i really became friends in this week i was there. We ate a lot, had fun and even firework! And later we met some foreign people in the street and i got happy birthday songs in many languages. The party and my presents were amazing - something to remember for a lifetime... Thank you all!
Also thanks to all my german and foreign friends who wrote some messages or thought about me on this day. I could feel a really big grace all along my travel.
In Krasnoyarsk some nice russians brought me by car to my next host Anya. It was morning but she was waiting for me with hot chickenwings and other things to eat. She had to go to work soon, but i got my freedom with some keys and could feel like a human again after taking a shower after such a long time...
River Jennissi is a monster! In town at least 400m wide, maybe even much more, difficult to guess or messure because it is divided in several arms. Town itself is not unbelievable interesting, but you know that my travel is more about people but sights.
The situation in Krk and Russia as far as i saw it is as followes: many roads have really big holes and cars should go slow, but you know some of these russian drivers =) the driver with the most courage qnd fastest car goes first, not the one who would be because of traffic rules ^^ almost all cars already had some smaller or bigger accidents.
Another funny thing while travelling: it happens quite often, that russian words sound like german swearwords or vice versa. This led to many funny situations. Also many russian words are difficult to pronounce for me, so it happened e.g. that i said: 'you have a nice ass' instead of 'you have a nice garden' :D
First night in Krk i was mit Anya and her friends dancing in a club with live music. Amazing! After only some 90 minutes sleep another surfer, Nikolai, took me some siberian-short-distance (350km each direction) to a trip to amazing nature with fields and salty lakes, and of course cute little siberian villages. Cows and chicken live on the village streets there, and also 'big' streets don't need any asphalt. A man we met on our way gave us some piroggen as a present - just like that, without any talking! =)
Later another day in town i got discount in a taxi, only because the driver has once been in Berlin and i congratulated for his cute 'Guten Tag'.
I love the hospitality of russians!
Friends of Anya took me to the big electricity producing dam of Jennissi. We went to a bar or restaurant several times and it was always good company. Anya was for me like the sister i never had. Great sense of humour and at least as crazy as i am. :P
Here is a big sorry to all of my pupils: Now I know once more that my handwriting is really bad. It happened twice or more up to now, that i wrote my mail address for people i met and they never contacted me because it was not good to read. Dear pupils, I will try to train my handwriting! But once again faith was on my side, i don't know why I should earn this grace. But when i just left my hosts house, Masha, a girl I met in train tipped me on the shoulder!!! One out of million inhabitants!!! This trip is sooo awesome up to now. I am missing words...
Even though Anya and I were more like friends than surfers i decided to move to another surfer who invited me to her home - Raisa. She lives together with her boyfriend, mother and sister and I was her first couchsurfing experience. For me it was perfect. I was like in a hotel. I saw a russian datcha, walked with her family through the woods to find some lost shoes and ate many tasty things. And I will be missing our evenings of watching photos of previous trips...
It went like it had to be - i got older another year. On my birthday i was picked up from Asya, Natasha and Nikita for a trip to Stolby, a beautiful nature reservation close to town. We went there walking and climbing, the pictures pretty much speak for themselves I think. Just one story: On this big rocks we were climbing there was also a girl with guitar sitting. And she played some music and sang just for me when I asked her to do... oh, and on top of the hill in about 60m height i became a real 'Stolbyist': 15 slaps with a shoe on my ass while bended over a stone and 15 loud shouted 'thanks' from me :D What a perfect way to spend my birthday.
In the evening there was party at Anyas flat with here friends i already knew. These guys and i really became friends in this week i was there. We ate a lot, had fun and even firework! And later we met some foreign people in the street and i got happy birthday songs in many languages. The party and my presents were amazing - something to remember for a lifetime... Thank you all!
Also thanks to all my german and foreign friends who wrote some messages or thought about me on this day. I could feel a really big grace all along my travel.
Leaving Krasnoyarsk feels almost the same like already in St. Petersburg. I just don't want to leave. But i am also kind of happy that right now I am on my way to Irkutsk. Why? I would have been making quite a fool of myself, telling everybody to travel around the world but actually already staying in the first city i visited :D
I am on my way to Irkutsk and Baikal and I also hope to meet Paola there, one of my previous flatmates in Jena. And on Wednesday I already am in Peking, from Thursday in Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur and some small beautiful islands...
You may all feel hugged by a man who travels alone, but actually never felt alone up to date. =)
PS: for me it's kind of funny and difficult to write this blog. My friends want to hear all the cool stories, but my parents and grandparents maybe shouldn't hear anything which could scare them, and my former or future pupils definitely should not know everything ^^
Meinen Sie ihren "PS" etwa so, dass ihre ehemaligen Schüler kein Englisch verstehen? Da haben Sie sich aber getäuscht. Zumindest einige lesen ihren Blog sehr aufmerksam und haben viel Freude damit.
AntwortenLöschenAußerdem noch "Alles Gute zum Geburtstag" nachträglich!
Und was soll eigentlich das zweite Bild darstellen? Ist da irgendetwas Besonderes auf dem Grund? Ich kann es nicht so richtig erkennen.
Viele Grüße von Carolin
Hallo Carolin!
AntwortenLöschenNein, ich meinte das eher so, dass ich für ein großes sehr unterschiedliches Publikum schreibe =)
Auf dem 2. Bild sieht man die Reste eines gesunkenen Holzschiffs mitten im Jennissi.