adventurebarbie

today flying to bankok,tomorrow morning taking bus to prachinburiat dhamma kamala for a vipassana coursebit nervous

packingbuying phonetaking train

buying some stuffjetlag is kicking in nowmeet ziggy and fabian, who have just arrived and have never been herethey are fun, we have dinner togetheri give them my bangkok map

was too early at the pantip plaza (giant computer store in bangkok)so walked around, took the elevator to the top of the bayoke sky hoteli think its one of the highest building in the city and its indeed an amazing viewbut they had this horrific children activity thing going on on the observation floorat least four soundsystems blaring out this kind of cheap musicsomebody shouting thru a mikesome people in ugly big costumes trying to be funnykids didnt make a sound, they were hurrying to finish painting their gypsum modelsi escapedcouldnt get my battery repackednew one too expensive

arriving is like in a dream, my mind knows everything,my body hasnt arrived yet, find guesthouse, sleep two hoursmet juergen in the emporiumnever travelled on the skytrain yetfeels like another country completelywe meet some of his friends and have dinnerone of them is francis who is organizing a media-arts festival hereit was supposed to happen end of february, but cos of the tsunami has been movedto june

almost no sleepj&r brought me to airport, that was really nicethe airport security is very stressed out at the moment

having blood tested, oh i really dont like itfeels like they always taking too muchdidnt faintorganizing hundreds of little thingsdinner with a&atold them about theproject, and that i will need the appartement to deliver itthey took it pretty ok, but i think its a bit a shock for themwish i could think of some other way to do this

arrived by city nightline at 9 this morningbit nervous but slept goodpicked up my insurance stuff and borrowed bike from nancy10:30 meeting midwife karien, she is coolheard the tiny heartbeat! almost had to cry11:15 echo, everything looks good, the little thing actually movedand waved the little arms!13:30 vaccinations15:30 meetings at dasarts, still not ready to tell them,they were a bit surprised, i think, that i still havent send in my proposal17:00 meeting felix, about his city of the blind project (saramango)19:00 dinner at rosaexhausted

driving to zurich, feeling so sad so sad, leaving with the traint. doesnt realize it yet, he only realizes when i m away that i m away

having to edit, but not doing muchfeeling very weakeverybody hanging by the fire and generally being lazyfor dinner we went out going down the mountain in the dark with the sledges