Miss lovely Jo & Ray from GKI
plus many other people I met there,
especially one funny laughing lovely Dutchie.

When you’re working and you suddenly see two familiar faces it makes you want to rush to them straight away. But when you’re in the middle of checking in people you can’t really do that. I was so torn inside with the desire to run and hug my friends and then the duty side of me telling me to work first. I just couldn’t believe my eyes! It definitely was the best surprise to see Ray and Jo standing in the reception! I was so happy to see them! And lucky they surprised me on a day I had an evening off! It was so great to meet with them and catch up. I’m still a bit shaken by their sudden appearance. When you’re made friends along the travels and you’re able to catch with them it’s so great. Next time I think it should be my turn to surprise and just arrive to GKI!

Not the kind of creature I'd like to find in my room!

Insects, the little creatures of this world, I can’t say I like them but at least I’m not really afraid of them, just don’t like them. And as I’ve learnt here my sister’s reaction to run to the other side of the swimming pool from the boys holding a redback in a glass jar is not too bad a reaction. I don’t think anyone really likes spiders, beetles and all kind of insects but some people really do have a severe phobia of insects. I could have never thought that someone could actually faint just seeing an insect. I might scream if a big spider landed on me but who wouldn’t? I can handle having a huntsman in my room – they are harmless after all, just a little bit ugly looking spiders. But given it’s a spider I don’t know what it is I surely go and get insect killer. I did have a hilarious encounter with a spider the other night. At first I just looked that it was a small huntsman on my door inside the room so I just went to have a shower and left it alone. But a while later I had a closer look and it wasn’t a huntsman, probably just some harmless one, but not a huntsman, that’s for sure. So off I went in my pjs to get the insect killer from the reception and walked back into my room. The spider was a really quick one and started to move towards me when I sprayed it. It took awful lot of the spray to kill the bloody bugger! And as you can imagine I was so full of adrenaline after the episode that sleep didn’t come too quickly! :D


Being on the other side of the world from all your friends and family can be sometimes hard.  When you travel and see new places all the time the time passes quickly and you hardly have time to be homesick. But when you stop for a longer time you start missing normal things like going for a coffee together, having a cup of tea over breakfast, popping in for a short visit. You start missing just talking and not needing to tell things from the past for the reason that they make you what you are today. But then again you meet these great new people who have their own stories to tell. And it’s a great feeling to start knowing someone and be friends. New friends who stay around don’t come easily or often in this town cos most of the people are just passing through. But then when you meet someone and make friends it’s great. Sometimes you meet people just for a fairly short time but you stay great friends, no matter what the distance. Without friends life would be quite empty. So please do all my friends know how much I appreciate you and how happy I’m to have you in my life.

"If you have good friends, no matter how much life is sucking, they can make you laugh."
- P. C. Cast -