This blog is
a pain in the ass, for a number of reasons. First of all because it will be the
first to be written in English, as I guess it no longer makes sense to only
serve my Dutch friends while being surrounded by other nationalities 24/7. So
please excuse me for any Dunglish typos or other silly sayings.
Second, I
have been struggling for weeks to find the means to summarise all that I have
experienced in a piece that will not bore you within seconds. I’m afraid it
won’t come anywhere close to what it’s been like, but as time passes and more
things happen all the time, it is probably not the best of ideas to wait any
longer. So I’ll give it a try.
6 weeks
have passed and only less than 1.000 km have been travelled since I got off the
love boat. It was actually quite shitty that it was as great as it was, as it is
hard to beat. But by now I have totally lost track of which of the many new and
great experiences has been the best. And that is only until so far.
Is it the
discovery of this thumbnail of the stunning state of Bahia, where the people
seem not to just be amazingly pretty wherever you go and whatever they (hardly)
wear, but are also extremely nice and almost without exclusion greeting and
chatting to you, even when your Portignol is still poor? Is it the life-changing
experience of (attempting to go) surfing, ridding myself of my fear of the ocean,
musing over life while sitting on your surfboard facing palm fringed beach
lines? Or will it be the 7 day dream at Universo Paralello; a new years, psytrance,
beach festival, where - again - it’s hard to not step (literally) on the most
beautiful group of people I’ve ever seen and which left me wanting to live in
the 70’s? Perhaps it was the hilarious sessions of laughter with the best
friends of the moment until your abs ache? Or the precious insights and
learnings, mostly felt after speaking to one of those special folks you’ve gotten
to know so well, so quickly?
Or will it
be all of the above, summarised when on your own, swinging in a hammock or
staring at the stars in the middle of the night, and you pinch yourself to come
to realize that you’re living the dream you’ve only started a little while ago?
Brazil; so
far you’ve been nothing but amazing to me and candy to my eyes in every way. I’m
very much looking forward to every moment yet to come that we will spend
together. Obrigada!
OK peeps – Tchau for now!
