Malaysia continued giving me great 
pleasure, and never let me down in my first impression I had of it. The people I met there are still exceptional to the ones in all the other countries around here. I spend three nights with a family, had a super evening in Kuala Lumpur, having dinner at the bottom of the Twin Towers, spend a whole day as a child in a theme park,… Every day there was something that made me even happier as I was the day before. I also met a Polish woman, living in England, whom I had a great time with, just hanging around, or being a child in the theme park. Everything seemed to come together every minute of the day. Easy to see why I love this country so much. Having a good time somewhere also has a lot to do with the people I’m with. I wonder how it would be going back there, not having Meg around (the Polish-
English woman) My first week in Malaysia, I spend mostly on my own. During the day I met people on the bus, on the street,… But I really chose to be there on my own. A time I enjoyed, and without any effort I rolled back into being around people. Since this has been a big problem earlier on my trip, I really enjoy seeing how things work out more and more. It makes me more self confident, and eager to make this trip longer and longer. Malaysia was the first country I actively used Couchsurfing. A website which gives you the possibility to meet people all over the world, for a coffee, a couch to sleep on, information on their city,… http://www.couchsurfing.com/ The three nights I spend with Lay Peng and Zach was my first couchsurfing experience, and the evening out in KL also started with one contact on the site. Malaysia also felt like a very safe country to try my first active steps on couchsurfing, and my feelings didn’t let me down.
Due to this great experience in Malaysia, going to Bangkok again, after only two weeks of heaven, might have been with tears in my eyes, i
f it wasn’t for the reason I wanted to go back to Bangkok. I was meeting Sara again, and we were going to make arrangements to take a trip to Nepal together. Sara, Nepal; two words that sound like beautiful music into my ears. After booking a ticket to Nepal for the 4th of march, we decided to go to Kho Tao and take a diving course. At first I wasn’t to eager to join a diving course, knowing my fatalistic thoughts, that made me at least a little scared to go under the water. Now I can say that taking the divingcourse was one of the top 5 highlights of my trip so far. Starting slowly, not being able to even breath with a snorkel in the pool, I gained something like an addiction to be under the water. In five days, I took 11 dives, and after taking my Open Water Course, I didn’t wait even 24 hours to start my advanced course. If it wasn’t for the plane that was waiting for us, I propably would have taken the next course, the rescue course, at once. I’m interested where this new passion will end. As a dive instructor? At least it would give me one more possibility to settle in Asia. During the course I also met Tuval and Iris, a couple that didn’t only feel like people I would like to stay in touch with, they even surprised us on the last evening with the message that the day before they found out they were pregnant. I
t felt special like being one of the first ones to share such a news with. A message like that really made me feel special. It made the wonderful last weeks even more perfect.
Arriving back in Bangkok had some surprises for us. Arriving at 1.30am in stead of 5.30am was special, after being used to arrive late for the last few months. Also the planetickets ha a surprise. Due to the unstable political situation in Nepal, the airline company decided to cancel its flights to Kathmandu. An arrangement they had offered us to go one day early with an other 
airline expired before we got knowledge of it, so a time of rearrange was born. The booking office we contacted for the tickets was very helpful (thank you Jerome), but the airlinecompany was less helpful. Eventually we received the money back, but for that we had to go to the office ourselves, the travel agent wasn’t aloud to receive the money on our behalf. Arriving at the office they told us that if we wanted the money in cash it would take two weeks. After a little complaining from our side, it was possible to get it the next day and after complaining a little more, we received the money right there, right then at the spot. It makes me wonder why it should have to take two weeks if it turns out to be possible to give it right away.
After all, the new tickets to Kathmandu are booked, it takes us only three more days in Bangkok, so … all well, it ends well… so far!!!
pleasure, and never let me down in my first impression I had of it. The people I met there are still exceptional to the ones in all the other countries around here. I spend three nights with a family, had a super evening in Kuala Lumpur, having dinner at the bottom of the Twin Towers, spend a whole day as a child in a theme park,… Every day there was something that made me even happier as I was the day before. I also met a Polish woman, living in England, whom I had a great time with, just hanging around, or being a child in the theme park. Everything seemed to come together every minute of the day. Easy to see why I love this country so much. Having a good time somewhere also has a lot to do with the people I’m with. I wonder how it would be going back there, not having Meg around (the Polish-
English woman) My first week in Malaysia, I spend mostly on my own. During the day I met people on the bus, on the street,… But I really chose to be there on my own. A time I enjoyed, and without any effort I rolled back into being around people. Since this has been a big problem earlier on my trip, I really enjoy seeing how things work out more and more. It makes me more self confident, and eager to make this trip longer and longer. Malaysia was the first country I actively used Couchsurfing. A website which gives you the possibility to meet people all over the world, for a coffee, a couch to sleep on, information on their city,… http://www.couchsurfing.com/ The three nights I spend with Lay Peng and Zach was my first couchsurfing experience, and the evening out in KL also started with one contact on the site. Malaysia also felt like a very safe country to try my first active steps on couchsurfing, and my feelings didn’t let me down.
Due to this great experience in Malaysia, going to Bangkok again, after only two weeks of heaven, might have been with tears in my eyes, i
f it wasn’t for the reason I wanted to go back to Bangkok. I was meeting Sara again, and we were going to make arrangements to take a trip to Nepal together. Sara, Nepal; two words that sound like beautiful music into my ears. After booking a ticket to Nepal for the 4th of march, we decided to go to Kho Tao and take a diving course. At first I wasn’t to eager to join a diving course, knowing my fatalistic thoughts, that made me at least a little scared to go under the water. Now I can say that taking the divingcourse was one of the top 5 highlights of my trip so far. Starting slowly, not being able to even breath with a snorkel in the pool, I gained something like an addiction to be under the water. In five days, I took 11 dives, and after taking my Open Water Course, I didn’t wait even 24 hours to start my advanced course. If it wasn’t for the plane that was waiting for us, I propably would have taken the next course, the rescue course, at once. I’m interested where this new passion will end. As a dive instructor? At least it would give me one more possibility to settle in Asia. During the course I also met Tuval and Iris, a couple that didn’t only feel like people I would like to stay in touch with, they even surprised us on the last evening with the message that the day before they found out they were pregnant. I
t felt special like being one of the first ones to share such a news with. A message like that really made me feel special. It made the wonderful last weeks even more perfect.
Arriving back in Bangkok had some surprises for us. Arriving at 1.30am in stead of 5.30am was special, after being used to arrive late for the last few months. Also the planetickets ha a surprise. Due to the unstable political situation in Nepal, the airline company decided to cancel its flights to Kathmandu. An arrangement they had offered us to go one day early with an other 
airline expired before we got knowledge of it, so a time of rearrange was born. The booking office we contacted for the tickets was very helpful (thank you Jerome), but the airlinecompany was less helpful. Eventually we received the money back, but for that we had to go to the office ourselves, the travel agent wasn’t aloud to receive the money on our behalf. Arriving at the office they told us that if we wanted the money in cash it would take two weeks. After a little complaining from our side, it was possible to get it the next day and after complaining a little more, we received the money right there, right then at the spot. It makes me wonder why it should have to take two weeks if it turns out to be possible to give it right away.
After all, the new tickets to Kathmandu are booked, it takes us only three more days in Bangkok, so … all well, it ends well… so far!!!
