Fabzgy´s Life

- It s a country in Latin America (what a surprise!)

- I ve been there before. (I know that doesn t help a lot either)

- They do speak a really weird spanish over there (hhmmm… that might help some experienced Latin America travellers)

- It s not the easiest country to travel with hospitality exchange! (That will give most of the HC/CS/BW ler the last hit.)

- They dance really, really good over there! (That does limit it a lot actually)

- They ve got very very good ron over there! (Ooohhh - now you got it?)

Well - I m leaving it here… make up your own mind. In a few days I m gonna make myself clear.

Just a quck note:

A few days ago I applied for my first Online Course offered by Youth Action for Change and more specific by Kjell Kühne.
The topic of the course is “Sustainable Development“. While filling out the application form for the online course I ve steped on a question which really made me think.

8. Do you always throw your garbage in the wastebin?

Yes - where else. That was more or less my first thought. Then it came to my mind that we (a 7 persons household) could actually create a compost in our garden in order to reuse the organic waste.

Thought - done! A day after I ve sent outthe application form I ve constructed our compost and filled it up with lemons (we ve got to much lemons in our garden) and grass resently cut by our garden helper… Since then most of our organic garbage does not go to the plastic bag but in the little left corner of our garden to provide home for fruit flies, worms and other little animals …

It all started with some of my german friends who studied with me here in Costa Rica. I traveled with Ole and Alex for a while in January / February this year and by then Alex gave me already a book he had read while traveling. It was a book talking about the travels of a Chinese nobel centuries ago. It was nice but not on of my favourites. A couple of months later a day before Ole catched his flight back to Germany he gave me some books. One of it was the “Glass Bead Game” of Hermann Hesse and another one the “Narcissus and Goldmund”.

Both somehow fit very very good in my present life. I ve mentioned them on the list of my favourite books in BeWelcome.
They describe very very good my torn between the life I want to live and the easier way to live.
I m living right now in a international house with people who are mostly a bit younger then me. Not much - just few months/years. Somehow I feel that partying and having chats about nonsense is not what I want to have in my life. It does not reflect my desires.

What do I wan t in my life? Maybe I should put more energy in this question. I know that I would like tospend less time infront of this very computer! I m breaking this wish this morning again since I m already two hours in front of this fuckin machine. Well I can t do much about it ritght now. It s 89 am in the morning an we have a guest sleping on the sofa in our kitchen. This circumstances don t let me play guitare as I would like to. It would allow me to finish the “Glass Bead Game”but I feel I ve got still some stuff to ctach up with on the web. But is that true? Does it really matter if I m up-to date with the news reaching me through Spiegel,, Indymedia, BeWelcome, Opencouchsurfing, etc.?
It would keep on rolling even without me reading these “News”. It is kind of important to me but on the other hand it is quite irrelevant on my ideal lifestyle.

If I follow the thoughts I had this weekend (we were hiking and camping in the mountains) I should turn of this machine right now and have breakfast while reading “Glass Bead Game”.

Thats what I m gonna do right now! Bye Bye!!!

EDIT: The full text of Siddharta is acutally available at the Gutenberg Project in English and in German.

Mi family is gone. They took a cap this morning at 9 am and are right now in Miami or alredy above the atlantic. We had a great time and I hope they want to taste more of the world after this trip.

Refering to the title/headline of this post. The last stop with my family was in Brasilito on the pacific coast. Down there I met, on the last day, an american family. The dad told me that they are searching a guitare since a while and can t find any. After a few minutes I cam e to the idea that I could sell them mine and buy a new one since I m just living two blocks away from the guitare fabric and I m on the way back there anyway. Thats what I offered them. I asked them to pay me 150 US $ (I payed 72 000 Colones ~ 146 US $) so they could have a guitare and I m collecting some karma points. With this extra money my mum bought some souvenirs so she was happy and they guy who is selling souvenirs is happy as well. I ve made 2,3 US $ and I got a new guitare again, the guiitare dealer here in San Pedro sells one guitare more and the american family has a guitare to play. So basicly everyone should be happy but I haven t.
Somehow I felt a kind of distrust from the family. Noone offended me actively - I just had the feeling that they couldn t believe that I just wanted to do them a favour. Okay - I earned one week playing a guitare and 3,5 US $ but that was not the motivation of selling my guitare. It was just the favour… it s a pitty that distrust is rooted so deep in our souls…