Adrift

You know, life bears many surprises, every day, every week, every month, every year. Would you have known where you are today a year ago? Probably not. Young people of today are dynamic, we travel cross the world, we live a bit here, a bit there... and the we blog about it. We share our experiences. And what did I realize? I realized that living in another country bears many challenges, but it's also very rewarding. But one thing it's for sure: It never gets boring.

My Taiwan adventure has come to halt for now. I'm officially back in Slovenia, but I take this more as vacation than anything else. I had to return home for reasons I don't want to disclose here, all I can say is, I had a great time in the past few months. Although my blog gave you the impression that I'm constantly traveling and enjoying myself with my cute girlfriend, that wasn't always the case. Yes, I had a lot of fun, especially on the weekends, where my girl and I had time to go to places and spend the days together. But in between she was working and I was working, too. It was a very valuable experience for me, the people who I was working for, were very sad to see me leave, on the last day they even gathered to wish me good luck on my way back. This chapter is now closed for me, but I need to add: I will be back soon. Oh yeah. I decided to spend the summer here and my Taiwanese girlfriend will visit me next month! I'm so excited :-D I will show her a little bit of Vienna and a whole lot of Slovenia, maybe even parts of Italy or Hungary. We'll see what's possible in the 2 weeks she'll stay here at my family's house.

Sometimes we do our best, but it's still not enough and we have to stop for a moment, accept the facts and set new objectives for ourselves. At the time when that happens, we feel frustrated, but then our life goes on. And in a year, two or three we look back again to that same moment and realize that what seemed to be bad luck turns out as a blessing in disguise. I believe that this is the case in my current situation. I'm actually totally fine now, but one thing is really hard: I'm missing my girl. I'm missing her every day, every moment. I have never cried so hard at any airport so far. She's totally under my skin... I love her. But I'm not looking back anymore, only forward. I'll greet her in Europe soon and then you'll be able to read "Cute Taiwanese girl's Slovenia adventures" :-) I'm sure it'll be tons of fun. I'll still be blogging about Taiwan, less here on my blue blog and more on my green blog, which will also be full of not only Taiwan related topics, but also a lot about my travels from the past, which I haven't written about yet (such as Hong Kong...), Asian women, funny crazy stuff, random.. Expect the unexpected (business as usual, hehe).

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[Photo from Bangkok airport, stopover on the way home, by MKL, 2010]