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Ingeschreven! Yup, ik doe mee . Nu nog es uizoeken hoe ik mij ga verkleden.

Whow, its been a while I visited my own blog. Quickly browsing through all those experiences shows me how dull default life can be compared to the nomadic life of a backpacker.

The end of my journey, my first months home and my impact on the economic crisis.
So when I came back in Belgium everything in my life seemed to go as smooth as a babies ass. First I get an incredible job opportunity, I found a great apartment in Brussels and then I meet an amazingly beautiful, intriguing, travelminded and smart girl from Morocco. It seemed life at home would not be as boring as I expected it to be.
But then, because I had absorbed and used all the good vibes around me for the last year I think I brought the universe a bit out of balance. This had a direct impact on the world around me causing the economic crisis, …of course…   (yes I was living on wall street when everything started)
Yes, me and the world have run out of good vibes and by the end of the year everything goes from seemingly pretty good, to slightly bad, to terribly worse and I end up at the end of the year, single, with no job in Paris.
Yes, walking in Paris in the rain wearing a funky retro psychedelic shirt after partying for 3 days and going back home back to… my Mom… in the Aalter… a place where nothing ever happens. Bonne année 2009? Boah, after the past two years I imagine the best parts of 2009 to be not even close to the worse parts of 2008.

But slowly slowly (shanti shanti) I’m working on gathering some new the good vibes and started wearing my Buddha necklace again. (It helped  during my travels so why would the way of the Buddha not help me through default life. )

Becoming a world citizen?

A few days later I get a phone call from a guy called Stan, a journalist for ‘De Standaard’, one of Belgians best newspapers. He wanted an interview of my couchsurfing adventures around the world. So of course I say yes and one week later I wake up from an sms send by a friend saying I got a whole page in the newspaper and an extremely ugly picture of me. The title says “Becoming a world citizen by traveling“. Whoah yeah ego boost. And then a day later Stan called again telling me he had so much material from our interview he wanted to use it to write another article. How cool is that?

So I restart my life in 2009

- “And now?”

I felt a wind of change for the future en so time passes and in one month I got everything back on track. I live in Ghent now(yes it IS Belgiums most beautiful city!), got some really nice projects to work on, I teach webdesign for one day in Leuven and girls yeah Ghent has by far the most beautiful and cool girls in Belgium! By far!

- “So you are going to stay in Belgium for a while?”

Well, yeah… kinda… My plan was to stay home for a whole year and jump on a bike in 2010 and do an epic bike ride in India with my Australian friend I met 2 years ago in my Paris adventures(see blogpost 2007). But as usual, things never work out as I planned in my life… because 3 days ago I got carried away talking with a couchsurfer about India… and to make a short story even shorter: 3 days later I have booked a ticket to india!

- Whow, dude, back up a minute. What? When? WTF Are you serious? You are just back from a trip around the world isn’t it?

Yep, its serious. On the 5th of April me and 3 other couchsurfers who don’t really know each other are about to do yet another unforgettable trip in (my)worlds craziest country. Indiajajajaa!!! I guess my stories work inspiring on some people around me.

Yeah, I’m eager to see all my friends in Mumbai again. And of course my little miss Bollywood, Shonali

So, stay tuned for more crazy adventures.