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I'm back from the jungle. It took a long time. One of my flights was cancelled so i had to get a coach all the way up snowy snowy UK. I was travelling for 45 hours in all. A long time. It felt very weird to be dropped into weather so different from where I'd been. And I've been missing the summer a lot. But today the sun came and i felt so much better. There are good things about winter. Drinking tea and warm jumpers. And some other things.

Tomorrow i go back to school for my last semester. I'm nervous but quite excited as well.

happy christmas

It is so hot here.

lost shoes

On a beach on an island in Indonesia, actually on quite a lot of beaches we stopped on, there were hundreds and hundreds of lost foam flip flops. One of the crew on the boat told me that if you looked at them again, they were all left footed shoes. And they were. He said that maybe because of their shape or maybe because of something else, all the left handed shoes ended up on one side of the world, and all the right handed shoes ended up on another.

I'm not sure if it's true or not. But it's nice.

(Edit: Stephen Fry says true)

I don't remember where I found this

"Here one's life and experiences are so intense; one does not belong, one is part of the landscape: The unhurried is easily accepted. In Europe i couldn't wait to see you again. I was so impatient and edgy. But in Nepal as each day passed I became more relaxed. I just kept going and going, looking at everything and drinking it all in. I have talked with the people and drunk tea in their houses. In tengpoche we stayed an extra day simply because it was so beautiful. It was suddenly not so important whether i met you today or tomorrow, and so perhaps my joy in finding you is more than those heady days in Europe."
Uschi Messner

I think that's right. I found it scrawled on a bit of paper on my floor. I am back from my travels now and I'm ready to rejoin the world. That is, i am ready to fill my own space again.

Stock home work

Berlin part two

I think perhaps it was a little optimistic of me to start calling these parts. This may be the last.

I loved being able to see the Fernsehturm wherever you went in the city. It seems so accididentally beautiful, like the graffitti, and bits of this and that, it all seems to fit together so effortlessly.

Berlin part one

On the train to Paris. I liked this uncertain mark on the window my mum left.

Goodbye Birdy House

I painted this bird house yesterday. I think I might get one of my own when I get home. I'm leaving for Berlin this afternoon. I'm getting a night train. I can't wait.