Ok this blog has been sadly asleep for a long time i realize- a victim of the poor access to the Chinese internet and my own laziness. Hopefully now that i am on european soil, these green pages will be filled with overdue remarks and thoughts about my life in China... mal sehen... everyone makes those sort of resolutions.
on this first morning of 2007 i am sitting in a beautiful house in Dhünn Germany, rain falling on the shockingly green fields and rolling forests of the Bergisches land. My body clock could not be more messed up. I realize how lucky i am to lead the life i have been leading... Last night i stood on a rainy ridge watching fireworks shoot up from a thousand houses in the city of Wermelskirchen across the valley- the sky ablaze with red and green and gold in all directions, glasses of Sekt, conversations with newly met brothers and sisters, my stomach full of amazing and with-a-brand-new-appreciation enjoyed German dishes like Schichtsalat, tomato soup with basil, fresh bread, Marscapone with rasberries... The day before i was eating pitas from a lebanese fast food store in the Mall of the Emirates in Dubai, next to the world´s largest indoor ski slope (yes snow skiing in the Dubai desert, under the shadow of the world´s highest building). I swam in the Persian Gulf and smelled saltwater breezes and palm trees, and watched the sunrise over the Arabian desert behind the skyscrapers of dubai from a pier in the Persian Gulf. The day before that I was wondering the dusty streets of the Forbidden City in Beijing under the choking brown-gray haze that is the Chinese sky, eating chachangmien in the backstreets of a chinese hutong, and wondering at the extreme contrasts and contradictions that are China.
I haven´t had time to process any of this, and over the last 3 days i have had 4 4-hour sleep periods, but I think i will adjust. I have some great appointments with brothers coming up in Germany, and i am VERY excited to get back to Lithuanian soil again, to see how much of that language i can still speak, to see my old friends. Even if it means i have to fly through wretched Frankfort Hahn airport. I am looking forward to getting there and having time to process and catch up to all the crazy adjustments i have been through.
See you in Lietuva!
on this first morning of 2007 i am sitting in a beautiful house in Dhünn Germany, rain falling on the shockingly green fields and rolling forests of the Bergisches land. My body clock could not be more messed up. I realize how lucky i am to lead the life i have been leading... Last night i stood on a rainy ridge watching fireworks shoot up from a thousand houses in the city of Wermelskirchen across the valley- the sky ablaze with red and green and gold in all directions, glasses of Sekt, conversations with newly met brothers and sisters, my stomach full of amazing and with-a-brand-new-appreciation enjoyed German dishes like Schichtsalat, tomato soup with basil, fresh bread, Marscapone with rasberries... The day before i was eating pitas from a lebanese fast food store in the Mall of the Emirates in Dubai, next to the world´s largest indoor ski slope (yes snow skiing in the Dubai desert, under the shadow of the world´s highest building). I swam in the Persian Gulf and smelled saltwater breezes and palm trees, and watched the sunrise over the Arabian desert behind the skyscrapers of dubai from a pier in the Persian Gulf. The day before that I was wondering the dusty streets of the Forbidden City in Beijing under the choking brown-gray haze that is the Chinese sky, eating chachangmien in the backstreets of a chinese hutong, and wondering at the extreme contrasts and contradictions that are China.
I haven´t had time to process any of this, and over the last 3 days i have had 4 4-hour sleep periods, but I think i will adjust. I have some great appointments with brothers coming up in Germany, and i am VERY excited to get back to Lithuanian soil again, to see how much of that language i can still speak, to see my old friends. Even if it means i have to fly through wretched Frankfort Hahn airport. I am looking forward to getting there and having time to process and catch up to all the crazy adjustments i have been through.
See you in Lietuva!
posted by Thor @ 19:47
1 Comments:
At 10:17 AM,
Anonymous said…
What an adventure you continue to lead, Thor! Good to see a new entry here. Have a great time in your beloved Lithuania!
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