Life is good, life loves me

29th July, 2012
(16.15 CEST) Rotterdam – Amsterdam Centraal Station

So here I am, sitting on the train surrounded by many Surinamese who just visited the Rotterdam Summer Festival. Now I’m going back to Amsterdam to meet my friends, Cecil & Thomas. We met before in Amsterdam, but they couldn’t find cheap ticket for a 1 day journey by train, but I have one, so I went to Den Haag, Delft, and Rotterdam by myself and will spend a super "hot" night with them again.

The solo's journey always be a moment of truth for me. It makes me think about anything, about the journey which I always get lost and do something stupid (ha!), how to get more money to go traveling, how I miss my family, but I should chase my dreams before I can go home.

For me, sometimes this journey is boring. BecauseI don’t have someone to take my pictures. So it’s either I should take it with a timer (and it’s kinda difficult because I don’t have a tripod) or ask someone to get my picture.

My friends always say, “It’s your chance to get acquainted with handsome men!”
Yeah, but I always ask an old woman or man to do it.

Ohya and the last thing is: I will get lost a lot! I can’t read a map. I always rotate the map to see it, but it never works. I always get lost anywhere.

Just like today in Rotterdam, I ran so I could see the festival. I didn’t ask anyone because I thought the festival would be on the road in front of the station, so I just followed people who walked quickly to somewhere I don’t know. And, voila, nothing on the street, just cars. So I walked a little bit and jumped in the bus and asked to a woman who worked on the bus,
“Excuse me, do you know where is the summer festival?”
“Oh, it’s across the station..”
“Ow, so I shouldn’t take this bus?”
“Hahaha.. No, you can walk through the tunnel on station and find the festival, it just started..”
I was just blinking my eyes and really wanted to jump from the bus because my time was tight, but the bus already moved.
“Hey, don’t worry, we’ll come back to the station after a couple of minutes..”
Yes, in 15 minutes!
Oh, why…

By the way, single journey is also fun..
I have time for myself only to do anything. To just wander around or do nothing to enjoy the time.

Okay, so I will be in Amsterdam in 2 minutes. Better to prepare myself and continue this ‘deep thought’ on another train.