surfin, surfin...

Since a lot things happend lately, I´m behind schedule, regarding this blog.

Nevertheless I´d like to let you know I have been to Bali, the romantic Indonesian island everybody is talking about, and more and more people are discovering, and over all surfers paradise - shortly: "Endstation Sehnsucht"

Well after working 2 month really hard, I decided to take a four days break in a surf camp, and do - what else - surfing! My boss agreed and gave me 2 days of, and so I flew there Friday at 7pm, right in time to arrive at the weekly cocktail party at the camp. That camp, was a neatly kept, artifical inuit village, consisting only of Bamboo huts, still with state of the art luxuries like light and electric power, to feed the Laptops and Digicams everybody brought - except me (guess what, thats the reason there are no fotos :()

However, I didn't go there to relax, i went there to surf! And, men, I did! I took me just one day in surfschool to ride the first white water waves safely, and the second day I did some green waves to, starting on the Malibu, a fairly longer and for beginners board, changing to the 6.5 inch one allready the other days, and started making turns - WHAT A FEELING.

I had no idea that surfing would catch me like it did. I must have been a talent too, :) , and Ryan our surfcoach was visibly sorry to see me leave after only 4 days. You have to see, people mostly go there for at least 3 weeks, and most stay for 3 month or longer - spending all there money, and go back as soon as they can afford it again ...

After promising Ryan to continue with surfing, and after saying goodbye to almost everyone of the 40 people in the camp - it´s unbelievable how many people you get to know and like after such a short time, if only theres this attitude you have in common - I went to the airport to my short trip back. I had a sad feeling deep inside me, I haven't felt for ages, and by silently repeating the same formula again and again : "you´re coming back, you´re coming back, you´re..." I kept the straight walk to the check in.

Still, I´ll be back!