At breakfast,
Gihan, the messman by the way said on Wednesday, I should not forget my
chocolate in the fridge of the ship-kitchen.
Why Wednesday?
Because on that day, we arrive in
Melbourne!
But it should be Friday, I have been told?!
The company had told the captain to speed up so to catch up the delay.
That is a big surprise for me, because on the first day, the captain had told me we would arrive on Friday late night and because of too much fuel consumption, the ship would not go faster to compensate the delay.
This was a completely new situation and I was glad that Gihan had told me that two days before it happens, because so I had time enough for doing what has to be done.
the
they are done now!
Cleaning my bike was set for today anyway, and cleaning my bags was additional, because today was sunny to get them dry again fast.
But first, I went to the administration office to write some emails. Markus and Doron were my contact persons for the hosts along the route Melbourne – Sydney. A few days before, I had asked them to tell my hosts from Warmshowers and Couchsurfing about my delay and only one of them had said that he would not be available later. So, I hope that changing back again is only annoying but no problem.
The videos of February are finished except the day of school visit in Pitou, it consists of 5 parts and each of them would normally be an own video. But the parts of the English performance class, the Lion dance and the weight-lifting class are completed, only my presentation and the bike tour must be edited and then the parts can be put together and the video is finished.
My delay was more than a month, now thirteen days of March will be left for later.
When I think back, I sometimes get the impression I was more “in the moment” when I started to travel than now. Now it is more like a job, cycling, writing, editing, uploading, organizing…
And everything additional must be integrated or the usual business must be postponed.
I am still nervous, because there are always things you can find to make you nervous when this is part of your personality. But I was deeper involved in the adventure in the first weeks or months. Now, I found a way to integrate everything in my special personality instead that such an extreme or at least exceptional year would change my attitude and develop my personality.
That doesn’t matter too much, because it makes no difference if I die as an enlightened Guru or Buddhist or just one night don’t wake up too early because I don’t wake up anymore. And even as the Martin that I am, was and apparently will be the rest of my life, I can always improve some details, create systems to get control over me until they erode because I am not a 100% control freak, I am lazy, too. But this is the chance for new freedom or new systems…
