when your dream just come true...

So...this is the moment I lived for...I left everything behind to do exactly that one. After more than 3 months, after so many declines, no's, barriers and desperates I can finally say today, I have the official work permit and I work as yoga instructor in Bali. The biggest dream came true!

4 months abroad...

It's been 4 months already now since I left Germany and my previous life behind me....Looking back now, sitting in my bed at 3 o'clock in the morning, as I am suffering from a really bad food poisoning, it feels so much longer. Maybe because so many things just happened. The journey started in India and finally brought be to Bali, a place I always wanted to live, at least for a while.
What's new? As meanwhile several times mentioned, to work in Bali is very very difficult, to get a work permit for a job even worse. I have to admit, that I thought, it's easier before I came here. And it's surreal, how many people can't believe it.
After more than 30 yoga places who declined, said no or just being ignoring me (which is really sad, as people sometimes really forgot how they once started) a new lovely place opened in Canggu and they invited me to teach 3 free classes, which were a kind of my interview. And yes! They want to give it a try with me. Now my application for the work permit runs and once it should work, I will be officially working as yoga teacher in Bali.
Once again, even in Bali the life is not offered on a silver plate and everybody who lives here goes thru some dirty roads before they walk on clouds.
I am wondering a bit, as lately I got asked several times, if all my photos here are fake and how do I really feel. Hmmm I really have to smile a little bit, as....why should they be fake? At the end I am writing this blog since I started packing more or less and I think I was really very true. As you would really read all my words, you would realize that of course I had some rough times here, but at the end I am where I want to be and I don't have to pretend something else. So once again: I am super happy, I am free, I am finally living the life, I always wanted to have. And all the pictures are real. This is just my life here, believe it or not! And all the pictures with dogs are for real as well. Meanwhile I have several animal friends here around me.
Lately my lovely friend Monica, who I met in India in January, visited me and we spent such a great times here together. I enjoyed her company so much. Monica is one of the most wonderful people I ever met, so easy going. We shared a lot of coffee (still the best one at Gypsy Bali) and coconuts, chats and food. I hope to see her soon again my lovely friend and thank you so much for the wonderful time <3

Next tick on the bucket list....

Not many people, maybe only my closest friends know, that my first big love Maki died by motobike accident on his 17th birthday. Since than, motobikes scarred me like crazy. I was never able enjoying a ride....Since several months this changed. I started enjoying the rides with several guys and I started riding a scooter (ok this is not really a proper motobike) and I really really love my cute scoopie here in Bali. But this begun being not enough anymore. Always when I saw or just heard one of this nice machines, who are driving around here in Canggu, I simply felt in love. I put this on my bucket list (after diving, skydiving, living abroad...) But I never drove a motobike before, I even don't have the licence for it. But I live in Bali, and the things are slightly different here :-) My bro, Agustin, told me two days before: "Hermana, we rent now one and I will teach you how to ride it!" Said, done! I sat on this powerful monster and tried to drive my first meters. How to describe this feeling, sitting on this 225 PS strong machine, feeling the power....AMAZING!!!!! 5 hours ride around Canggu and I felt sore, painful wrists, stiff, dumb but as well: completely in love.
Maki, this one is only for you....I know that you are smiling down now on me from heaven! You are always in my heart and on my mind as soon as I sit on this bike again! And I finally understand, why you loved it so much..

24 hours Kuala Lumpur

My first visa run after 60 days (I already sorted out my first visa in Germany) was coming. That means you have to go out the country. At least you can fly out in the morning and come back the same day, but I wanted to stay one night in Kuala Lumpur and explore the city. So I left Canggu on thursday at 3:30 am (ha super weird being ALL alone on the road on my scooter) and drove to the airport. For the first time I didn't cry at the Ngurah Rai airport as I knew I will be back tomorrow again. 3 hours later I was already in KL. I booked a bed in a Hostel at the Bukit Bintang, the more or less center of KL. And yeah...I couldn't find it :-/....I walked around more than one hour, slowly starting being desperate, as nobody seem to know the place. I started asking myself, if the hostel really exists :-) and in the last moment, when I was already having the idea to find a new place, I turned into this small dirty, old, chaotic road and found my hostel, called Alor Bunker.
http://www.bunkerhome.my
To be honest the first view over my bed was not a nice one....but. I spent the night here, the beds were super comfi and everything was clean and the bathroom was simply beautiful. So I would recommend this place to everybody, even if it takes time to find it :-)
A visit to KL includes of course a view to the famous Petronas Towers. As well as they are impressive at the daytime, the are simply amazing at night. All those lights... I walked a lot around, went to Chinatown, little India, Pasar Seni, Bukit Bintang...Had coffee at Starbucks and an original german beer and a pretzel (FINALLY :-))
As much as I liked Kuala Lumpur, it was strange for me being in a big city after more than 3 months living next to the ocean. It's crowded and loud and to be honest, as soon as I arrived back to my Canggu (and of course I took the wrong way and got lost in the middle of Kuta again) I felt back home once again and yes....This is exactly where I want to stay!