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Je suis à Paris

Surfermaus — 2009-06-20T18:40:00Z

Arrivè à la citè avec tout le monde personnes

So bad my french. Sorry; I prefer English.
I arrived in Paris.
Wohooo; I didn't expect so many people. They are everywhere. Worse than London; worse than New York.
And so half of the, are black. I am really surprised.

Crazy keyboard...aaaah... I need five minutes for a sentence. And you have to press Shift if you want to have a dot.;;;How crazy::::

But the craziest thing is the beer; THey have honestly just 0;25 Beer bottles....so little and alredy a beer.
How could men survive here without dying of thirst???

Freizeit gestohlen!

Surfermaus — 2008-11-24T09:15:00Z

Schon lang nichts mehr geschrieben.
Liegt vielleicht daran, dass im letzten Monat schon wieder so viel passiert ist.

Ich bin ausgezogen!

Ich hab einen Job!

Beides.essentielle Dinge im Leben der Alexandra J.
Wies ist?
Beides super!
Alleine wohnen kann einiges!
Die wichtigsten Vorteile zusammengefasst:
- Mit niemanden ums Bad in der Früh streiten.
- In der Nacht nach Hause kommen und groß aufkochen ohne jemanden aufzuwecken
- Ruhe in der Früh (keine Hundegebell, keine Jubelrufe beim Schirennen schaun vom Vater)
- Kein Aufräumen, sondern die Dinge auch 3 Tage an einem Platz liegen lassen ohne dass sich wer aufregt,...

Die Leute bei IKEA sind auch voll nett und lern grad sehr viel neues. Sehr junges Team und auch sehr international. Nur bisl stressig grad in der Weihnachtszeit. Nicht unbedingt die beste Zeit um im Handel zu beginnen.
Resümee nach 3 Wochen: sehr cool!
Wichtigste Erkenntnis nach 3 Wochen: Ich hab keine Freizeit mehr!
Das nennt sich also Berufsleben.
Wann soll da eigentlich Zeit bleiben um so wichtige Dinge wie Schlafen, Fortgehen, Fernsehen, Familie/Freunde sehen, Wohnung herrichten,...zu betreiben?
Lösungsvorschläge bitte zu mir!
Mal schaun, wies weitergeht in den nächsten Monaten.

Aja, ich hab mal wieder meine Kamera zerstört- daher gibts keine aktuellen Fotos.
Stattdessen ein kleiner Rückblick:
Vor einem Jahr: die schöne, unbekümmerte, geile Schwedenzeit. Ein anderes Leben...
Schön wars!
...damals noch nichts ahnend, dass dieses Möbelhaus mein zukünftiger Arbeitgeber werden wird:

Außerdem gabs hohen Besuch von Oberöstereich und Frankreich. Die Lundler in Wien:
Natürlich musste das auch a la Lund gefeiert werden.
Hier ein paar Einblicke- so wie in Lund aber nur die zensierte Version;)

Veränderung

Surfermaus — 2008-10-19T20:35:00Z

Jetzt ist es offiziell:
Das Studentenleben ist vorbei!

Am Freitag war ich das letzte Mal auf der Uni, um die Rolle (auf die man sein ganzes Studentleben lang wartet) ausgehändigt zu bekommen, einen Schwur zu leisten und einer 30minütigen Rede des Vizerektors zu lauschen...
Natürlich folgte danach eine gebührende Feier:

Matura 2002 ( so lang kommts mir noch gar nicht her)

Sponsion 2008

Family...

and friends

Ob ich dieser Zeit nachtrauern werde???
Und wiiiie!
Sowohl Schule als auch Uni haben mich bis jetzt mein ganzes Leben lang begleitet.
So wie mein Nymphensittich Moritz, der bis zum heutigen Tag die letzten 17 Jahre (seitdem ich 7!!! Jahre alt bin) an meiner Seite war. Wahrscheinlich wollte er nicht mehr in die neue Wohnung, die ich seit 1. Oktober offiziell habe!

Aber nach jedem Ende kommt ein neuer Anfang.
Veränderung- DAS treffenste WORT, dass momentan mein Leben beschreibt.
Angst...ganz klein wenig
Spannend...sehr!
Beunruhigt...noch nicht

Die Zukunft wird sich weisen...

In Memoriam Moritz- der Begleiter meiner Kindheit und Jugend!

1,2,3 Gsuffa - Oktoberfest in Munich

Surfermaus — 2008-09-25T11:36:00Z

One of the 100 things everybody should do at least once in his life.
After skydiving, now a visit at the Oktoberfest in Munich!

A mix of Wiener Wurstelprater and aprés ski in the Austrian Alpes.
Everybody with Dirndl und Lederhose. Singing and dancing from midday till evening all day long!
So good fun!

Not only once in my life- next year again ;)

More Photos here:
http://picasaweb.google.de/Surfermaus/OktoberfestInMNchen#

Magistra rer.soc.oec

Surfermaus — 2008-09-15T15:27:00Z

...that's me!
If you have a job, please contact me ;)

Thanks for an amazing party with all of you!

Pictures here: http://picasaweb.google.de/Surfermaus/Sponsionsparty#

All's well, that ends well

Surfermaus — 2008-09-08T06:01:00Z

We are back home!!!
After 75 awesome, exciting, relaxing and hilarious days, we are back where we started in our rooting country.
Thank you for observing the blog so constantly and for being happy with us to experience the probably best trip in our lives.

The last day in Bangkok we didnt notice anything about the demonstrations. We entered and left Bangkok without any problems and had a stressful day in Bangkok to meet our tailor two times, had some last massages and mani and pedicures and bought some last presents:).
So all in all we had no single probleme we had to deal with at our trip. No lost, robbery, rape, murder or anything else:)

Summary of that trip:
If you ask me, which country I liked most, which people are the friendliest, which experience I will never forget.... I can't tell you!
Every single country has its own unforgettable impressions and its wonderful people. I think we choose amazing countries which are all special and I enjoyed every single one of them!!

If you ask me where I would stay soonest:
Definately New Zealand.

If you ask me, which experience I will never forget:
Of course, the Skydive.
But there were so many things on our trip,
either sitting at the dune in "Valle de la Luna" in the Atacama desert and enjoying the coulours of the sunset, lying on the most beautiful white sandy beach I have ever seen on the Fiji island or just talking with the friendly Thai locals on Ko Tao.

If you ask me, what I learned at that trip:
That there are so many breathtaking and heart-stopping places in the world.
That Europeans are the unfriendliest people in the world.
That life cant be easier and more uncomplicated when you are on travel.
That we can be really lucky to life in a high developed country like Austria, can drink water from the pipe and dont worry about how to get food on the next day.
That there are so many nice and interesting people out there who are on travel, helps you and stick together immediatley.
That Austria is a really small country.
....................

Okay, I stop now.
All in all:
I recommend to do such a trip 100% to all of you!!!
The best thing you can do, if you have some money and want to see how world is going on the other side of the globe.

Thanks for all the nice people we met. It was a great experience travelling with you!

Adios, Sweet as, Bula, Ni hau, Ka pun kaaa,
the World traveller

For all those who want to see the photos, I am starting to range them. But it will take some time...so be patient;)

5000 blog entries since I launched that page almost one years ago!
That means you really care what I am doing either in Sweden, Prague or the other side of the world...Thank you all so much for that!

Update from Thailand

Surfermaus — 2008-09-02T15:08:00Z

For all those, who are worried about us.
We are fine at Ko Tao and enjoy our holiday.
We changed our bus ticket to Thursday evening, so we'll arrive Bangkok at Friday morning to be sure to stay in Bangkok as short as possible. If everything will work out with the bus and our flight, we will catch our flight at 0:15 on Saturday morning.
We hope the highways will be open and the situation wont get worse as it is now till Friday.

Thanks for your mails and messages. Keep going on!

We didnt expect such a "adventourouse" end at the end of our awesome round the world trip.
But you never know, what will happen on the next day in paradise.

See you home safely !

Captured in paradise

Surfermaus — 2008-08-31T03:55:00Z

Hello friends in peaceful Austria, Europe,...!

As you may notice, we heard about these demonstrations of the PAD - movement who wants to bring down the premier minister of Thailand.
Mainly Bangkok and the airport of Phuket are affected. As well the train was not going the last days.

We are right now on Kho Tao, a small island in the east of Thailand. Here you hear nothing about it.

But on Wednesday, we want to go to Bangkok by train and stay in Bangkok for 2 days. Our flight is on Friday night/Saturday morning. I think these days wont be our favourite ones. Especially because we shouldn't go to the trouristic centers, wats, the king palace and avoid places where are normally a lot of people....
Detonations are not debarred..the last one was in September 2007.

As we wrote before, we dont notice anything here.
So, you are more than welcomed to write us the newest information on the blog to inform us about the situation!!!
We will try to read the Austrian newspaper on the net every day.

So, cu hopefully in one week!!!

Love and kiss to our lovely friends!

PS:
Angesichts der Blockade der thailändischen Flughäfen in Krabi, Phuket und Hat Yai durch regierungsfeindliche Demonstranten hat der Reiseveranstalter TUI Österreich mitgeteilt, dass sich derzeit nur wenige österreichische Touristen in dem südostasiatischen Land aufhalten. Mit TUI und Gulet befänden sich derzeit rund 30 Personen in Thailand auf Urlaub.
http://www.oe24.at/zeitung/oesterreich/chronik/wien/Oesterreicher_sitzen_an_Flughaefen_in_Thailand_fest_352685.ece

Na bravo- und wir sind 4 davon....

Hard decisions we have to make every day...

Surfermaus — 2008-08-29T14:29:00Z

- Do we take the plane, train,ferry, bus, long tail boat or the tuk tuk to get to the next destination?
- Which beach is suitabel for our luxury bodies?
- Should we drink a fresh orange, pineapple or mango juice?
- DO I eat my food out of a pineapple or coconut?
- Should I buy the dress for 3 euros or is it possible to negoatiate it further to 2 euros?
- Should we take the hotel with the pool or with the yoga and thai massage facilities?
- Do I really need a fifth tailor made blouse?
- Should I better do the elephant riding or the white water rafting after the jungle trekking?
- Should I take a yellow or a blue helmet to my green motorscooter?
- Do I prefer for this afternoon to lie in the hammock under a palmtree or on the airbed in the turkis sea?
- Which type of massage do I prefer: thai, oil, aloe vera, herbal, facial,foot, back,shoulder or happy end massage:)?
- Manicure, pedicure, couloring and curling of my eyelashes?
- Shall we better attend at the halfmoon, fullmoon, blackmoon or shivermoon party on the beach or in the jungle?
- Should we better dance on the bamboo dancefloor or in the water?
- Which nationality should I kiss tonight?
- Is this girl real or rebuild?

No worries...
We didn't change at all...
Have a look...

Cu guys in one week...or never again????
Kisses from the 4 girls in paradise!!!

Same, same- but different! Cheap, hot Thailand

Surfermaus — 2008-08-19T05:07:00Z

After we arrived in the paradise of shopping and massage,
Steffi and me went out to Khaosan Road and went directly to the tailor. Actually it was by accident: but we ordered sako, skirt, trouser, 2 dresses and 3 blouses:) WE couldnt stand this cheap prices and that tailor-made. Oh wow!

After that we went to the Massage and beauty center which is here on every corner and get us a facial and thai massage for 1hour (4Euro!!!).

At the next day Nina and Kordschi finally joined us. 4 girls in shopping paradise- ohoh! But we already did some sightseeing besides of shopping:)
At night it started to rain like hell (almost every second day) because of the rain season. We got completely wet, when we arrived at the hotel and laughed for minutes about it :)

We went with the boat through the klongs (=canal), saw one big iguana in the river, a lot of wats, buddha monks, elephants,...

One day we made a trip to the swimming market, the bridge at the Kwai (Moovie) and a tiger temple! At the swimming market we took a boat, but stand for 10minutes on the same place directly in the hot sun because there were too many boats with tourists on that small river. We almost went crazy, but could "escape" after 20minutes. Horrible! Very, very touristic. But I think thats almost everything in Thailand.

The bridge at the Kwai was a little bit scary- no handrail and strong wind. But no problem for me now after my skydive :) Thousands of people died while building the bridge!

The tiger temple was also very touristic. Guides took you by the hand and took pictures with you and the tigers! We thought this will be completely different. We heard after our visit that they get drugs to be calm. Sorry, we didnt know :(
Nice trip, although very touristic!

At night we went to the Pathong, the red light district. Of course by tuk tuk,

which is cheapest and most exciting way to get around (actually very, very dangerous- so much traffic in Bangkok). I couldnt believe that some of these ladyboys were once men...They look like the most beautiful women! Interesting and also horrible to see at the same time..

At the next day we couldnt get into the Wats because the sister of the king died. So we went to the big weekend market with 6000 stands. Unbelievable cheap( fake brands for 3 euro per tshirt) but soo hot during the day. I prefer night markets :)

Right now we are in Chang Mai! Unfortunatley, I had some problems with my stomache and had fever yesterday. So we went to the hospital and I got some medications. Now I am feeling much better. But I couldnt do the trekking tour today. Lovely Steffi stayss with me while Nina and Kordschi started a 2 day trekking, elephant riding , village visit, bamboo rafting trip. Steffi and me will hopefully do a one day trip soon!

Thats it!
Hope to hear from you soon!
Kisses,
yours 4 thai girls

Ps: More photos on facebook (as always).

HongKong, the city which never sleeps - Lost in translation!

Surfermaus — 2008-08-14T01:14:00Z

Ni Hau!

HongKong is awesome! Really another world. I have never seen such a city, so many lights, so many people, so many smells, .... before! It was hot like hell. Sweat the whole day and had some problems at the first day. But we drink salt soup, so we could survive:)
We lived at my friend's place, Ka Ho! He was one of the most friendliest and welcomed host, we ever had. He even thanked us that we choose him as host :) Great experience to live in a typical Chinese high accomadation for thousands of people in a 18sqm room.
At the first day, we made the typical sightseeing tour at HongKong Island. I was really impressed of the huge buildings. I think HK tops New York 10 times!!!! Unbelievable high!Of course went to Vicotiras peak to get a perfect view over the city....AMAZING! So many buildings at such a few space!!! In the evening we met Ka HO, Janice and Greg(all friends from Sweden) who introduced us to Hot pot with them. Soo good! But I dont know where Chinese people eat all that in their belly...Where is it? The day was good, although the temperature hit us so hard that we had to stop a lot of times during the day and went to the air conditioned malls and restaurants. You have to get used to it: unbelievable hot and freezing cold within 2 seconds!
THe second day, Ka Ho could take a day off. So we had a perfect local guide to start some other tour than normal tourists do, when they are in Hong Kong. Did you know that HOngKong is 70% of green area? We didn't and we were impressed of the beautiful hills.
We went to the bigh Budda at Lantau island (34high on the top of the mountain), to a fishing village with baraks (we saw pink dolphins- amazing!!!). At night we went to Kowloon at the night market and had some typical Chinese food (Peking duck, shrimps, rice,..). We watched the light show from the Kowloon harbour with the erected penesis (=scryscrapers) like our chinese friends told us.

The two days were really to short! But we get a great introduction especially because Ka Ho could tell us so much about the Chinese culture.
It was my first time in HongKong. I hink either you love HK or you hate it! I really loved it!!!! But just for visiting.

Now we are heading to Thailand and met our lovely Kordschi and Nina! We are looking forward to it, although its our last stop now...

More photos at facebook!

Kisses,
Yours Alex and Steffi

Ps: Olympic games are everywhere! Everywhere big screens and every Chinese is watching!

BULA Fiji!

Surfermaus — 2008-08-10T12:26:00Z

What previsouly happened on Fiji:
We hopped on 5 small beautiful islands and relaxed at the white sandy beach of the blue lagune:
There we...
- ate coconuts from the palmtrees
-lay in the maddocks and enjoyed the sun
- did a summit walk at 6 o'clock in the morning and watched the sunrise
- ate a lot, especially fish, rice, pineapples, melones, papaya,...
- drank cocktails
- read
- visited a village and saw how Fijis are living
- went snorkeling and saw corals, Nemos (1 baby nemo) and 1000 of fish
- get in contact with unbelievable friendly Fijis who never left the island before and were really interested in Europe and our country
- saw fire shows at the beach and dances and songs of the Fijian locals
- drank Kava, the national drug drink of the Fijian to get high at ceremonies

..and finally get almost killed by a black/white seasnake(more poison than a Cobra!!!), which came up the beach while Alex was standing in the sea.

Some Fiji lcoals wanted to mary us, but we decided, we don't want to stay on an island without electricity and just look for shells at the beach.
So, you can be happy: We will come back...some day :)

Summarizing: A wonderful and relaxing week after 5 weeks of cold Chile and NZ!

Next stop: Hong Kong, where we stay at Ka Ho's place during the olympic games...hope the Chinese will let us cross the border!

Stay tuned!

Ps: More photos at facebook!

Sweet as...Goodbye Kiwis!

Surfermaus — 2008-08-01T08:30:00Z

Unbelievable..half of our trip is over :(
We are getting depressed...Just you guys in lovely Austria helps us over that :)
Honestly, leaving New Zealand makes us a little bit sad!
Unfortunately, we were really lazy in writing and showing you some pictures (for those who have Facebook,check out).

I'l try to summarize:
What happened the last weeks, especially on the Southern Island:
After an amazing and very funny night in the capital, Wellington, with the people from the Kiwibus, we get some seats at a 12 person propeller-plane from Wellington(Northisland) to Picton (Southisland). The ferry was out of order because of the strong wind with 120km/h. Can you imagine sitting a small proppeller plane??? Very advantourose.
Other highlights, of course the skydive and helicoper-hike, we have already informed you.
Besides, the weather was much better on the Southisland. We even had some sun and almost no rain!!! We get some red cheeks (maybe because of the ozon whole..or the fresh air:)).
We could do a lot of walks at the beach, to beautiful lakes, to the Pancake rocks (limestone formation at the beach which looks like pancakes). We saw two amazing sunrises at the beach and a rugby game of the Newzealands "all blacks" versus Ozzys "Wallabies". Unfortunately, the Ozzies won. But some Kiwis introduced us to the rules and we just think: " Crazy game. The best thing is, that the team of New Zealand is doing the Haka, the maori war dance, before they start playing. Rugby is the most popular game in NZ and you can buy fan article everywhere...

Right now, we are in Queenstown, the adventue capital of the world. AJ Hackett, the inventor of Bungy, was the first who introduced bungy jumping by jumping of bridges everywhere in NZ. You have thousands of adventoure activities now in Queenstown: Bungy jumping from the bridge, the mountain, a gondola into canyon (134meter!!!), canyon swing, skydiving, rafting and so on...REally, really crazy. Queenstown is also a skiing town. Unfortunately, we have no time to go skiing.

But today, we went to the Milford sound: the fiords behind an amazing scenery of mountains (so high and steep). The weather was good and we went with the boat out and saw some seals, 60meter high waterfalls, and undescribable landscape (similar to Norway, but I think better because of the snow capped mountains).

Summarizing, we like the Southisland much more. But maybe the weather is a reason! We definatley missed the people from the Northern trip, with whom we had a really good time. So not that much party at the south island.

Sorry, I have no time left for showing you some pictures. I will do that at home, who is interested!

So, tomorrow back to Christchurch and on Sunday to Fiji in the sun!
We are looking forward to it, although I really loved New Zealand!!!!
A wonderful country similar to Scandinavia, Scotland,...so you know, I love it :)
The time was short: We think we have to come back again!!!!

Sweet as...like Kiwis say!

Take care and enjoy August!!!

Big hugs from yours
Kiwis

Skydiving at Fox Glacier NEW ZEALAND 29.07.2008

Surfermaus — 2008-07-29T06:18:00Z

I must not feat, fear is the mind killer.
Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over and through me.
and when it has gone past I will turn the inner eze to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.

Here is the proof!

I REALLY DID IT!!!!

I jumped out of a plane in 12.000feet (=3.500meter)!!!!

Press the button for the song:

FREEFALL of 45 seconds falling down the earth with 200 km/hr!!!!

Honestly, would you believe I faced my fear of heights and jumped out of a plane????? If you know me, I would say, NEVER EVER!
Dont ask me why...I didnt even realize it, when I sit in the small mini propeller- plane and looked at the Franz Josef and Fox Glacier and the snow capped Mount Cook.
I think when the time comes, you have to do something really crazy in our life. And today was THE day!

And it was amazing!!!! You cant describe the feeling falling down with 200km/h to the earth....
I recommened it to everyone! Kordschi, you will enjoy it!
Its the best thing I have ever done in my life!!!! With no doubt!!!!
For all those, who dont believe I jumped at that point, I have a crazy DVD!!!! (to be watched at my sponsi-party maybe)!

WICKED - The BEST day in our life!!! OR: Kiwis go crazy

Surfermaus — 2008-07-29T05:13:00Z

After days of rain and cancelled activities, finally we had without any doubt our
BEST DAY IN OUR LIFE!!!

Getting up at 6:45 in the morning (after few sleep especially Alex), we were picked up to the Skydive Centre to go skydiving over the Fox Glacier, the Tasman sea and the rainforest all in one :)
New Zealands most awesome Skydive over scenery unique in the world.

Honestly, this wasnt enough for us adrenalin junkies:)
Threfore we went heli-hiking on the Franz Josef Glacier (named after our emperor!!!) going up a second time- the first time in our lives in a helicopter!!!! AWESOME flying so the close to the mountains, waterfalls and thick ice!

After we get dropped off at a plateau on the galcier, we get some spikes and a pick-axe and hiked through amazing icefields and blue and turquoise caves!!!! Wonderful ice formations, ice lakes just in 800meter hight surrounded by the rainforest!!!
UNIQUE in the world!!!
The best hike in our life!

And the best day in our life!!!!

Ps: Out of money now. Donations urgently requested to the account: 38765558

More pictures in New Zealand:see Facebook