Goodbye Vietnam
While I’m packing, my plane ticket is staring at me. I realize this is the end of a life’s chapter, the end of something that makes me the person I am today. Thinking about the last two years, all the people I met, the touring, the sceneries, the friends I made, the friends I lost, the daily life and the traveling, the joy and the pain, my life in Asia,…my eyes feel wet, tears of goodbye, to a country, to people,… but deep inside I feel these tears are tears of happiness, thankful for all these experiences, and happy to move on in Belgium. I arrived here by coincidence, but Vietnam will always keep that very special place my memory. A big part of my life.
This blog was supposed to tell you all my stories. The tricky thing is that life can also become daily even when you’re 10000 km away from home. Daily life is different when you eat noodle soup five times a week, when you’re wearing t-shirts 12 months a year, when you struggle everyday with people not understanding you (or you not understanding them would me more appropriate), when you drive your motorbike in traffic jams together with the 10 million other people, when you drive along Buddhist temples every day and when everybody around you looks so much different than yourself. But at the end of the day it becomes a habit, not always worthwhile to tell the world.
So,
First of all I would like to say a word to Mona. I don’t know how you see it (actually I know:-)), but when we met randomly at lunchtime in that restaurant in September, it felt like you became my friend after 5 minutes. And now, half a year later, it feels like you are my best friend. You have always been so supportive, I could be myself and you know everything about me, we have had so much fun together on crazy nights in Saigon, but you were also always listening to me in more difficult times. So please girl, give me a reason to come back, to come and visit you, because if there is one person I am afraid of losing as a friend, it’s you.
My roommates: Laura, Eliot, Li, Lydia. You guys were wonderful. I cannot imagine better people to live with than you. We all had our separate lives here, but we also had great fun organizing the parties on the roof, the dinner-evenings, watching Laura singing in the quire, tasting Laura’s and Li’s cooking specialties, the trip to Mui Ne with Laura and Lydia, the trip to Cambodia with Lydia, all the talking in the living room, the exaggerate shopping with Lydia,…. So hereby I promise Laura I will visit her in Scotland and I promise Lydia to visit her in London. I’ll keep my word. Li and Eliot: the best example that intercultural relationship can be very beautiful!
Jessy and Kasper: I think you both know what my strongest wish is for both your future:-)
And of course all the other people: the people from work, Simon and Lucy, Arnoud, Charles, Timen and Akira, Laslo and Julia, Nico, Kim, Christophe, the beluxcham-men, Juram and Zoe, (who made the Friday-evenings the best!), Mo and Servane, Kristiaan, Marie-Paule and the tons of other people I am forgetting now, it has been great spending time with you guys and wish you all the best.
Saturday 23/02 @ La Habana, 8.00 pm dinner. CU there.
This blog was supposed to tell you all my stories. The tricky thing is that life can also become daily even when you’re 10000 km away from home. Daily life is different when you eat noodle soup five times a week, when you’re wearing t-shirts 12 months a year, when you struggle everyday with people not understanding you (or you not understanding them would me more appropriate), when you drive your motorbike in traffic jams together with the 10 million other people, when you drive along Buddhist temples every day and when everybody around you looks so much different than yourself. But at the end of the day it becomes a habit, not always worthwhile to tell the world.
So,
First of all I would like to say a word to Mona. I don’t know how you see it (actually I know:-)), but when we met randomly at lunchtime in that restaurant in September, it felt like you became my friend after 5 minutes. And now, half a year later, it feels like you are my best friend. You have always been so supportive, I could be myself and you know everything about me, we have had so much fun together on crazy nights in Saigon, but you were also always listening to me in more difficult times. So please girl, give me a reason to come back, to come and visit you, because if there is one person I am afraid of losing as a friend, it’s you.
My roommates: Laura, Eliot, Li, Lydia. You guys were wonderful. I cannot imagine better people to live with than you. We all had our separate lives here, but we also had great fun organizing the parties on the roof, the dinner-evenings, watching Laura singing in the quire, tasting Laura’s and Li’s cooking specialties, the trip to Mui Ne with Laura and Lydia, the trip to Cambodia with Lydia, all the talking in the living room, the exaggerate shopping with Lydia,…. So hereby I promise Laura I will visit her in Scotland and I promise Lydia to visit her in London. I’ll keep my word. Li and Eliot: the best example that intercultural relationship can be very beautiful!
Jessy and Kasper: I think you both know what my strongest wish is for both your future:-)
And of course all the other people: the people from work, Simon and Lucy, Arnoud, Charles, Timen and Akira, Laslo and Julia, Nico, Kim, Christophe, the beluxcham-men, Juram and Zoe, (who made the Friday-evenings the best!), Mo and Servane, Kristiaan, Marie-Paule and the tons of other people I am forgetting now, it has been great spending time with you guys and wish you all the best.
Saturday 23/02 @ La Habana, 8.00 pm dinner. CU there.
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