I am The Visiting Ninja (ARC) and I've been home for almost a month.
It has taken me this long to write my "goodbye" to Germany for various reasons. I learned so much on this trip abroad. Some things are intensely personal and not fit for a travel blog. Others will be shared...right...now.
1. Traveling opens up my whole heart.
By this I mean that I experience things on such a sensory level when I'm away from home. So present. So aware. Hypersensitive to everything. I felt wide open, vulnerable, challenged, tested...so many things. A lot of times I was "drunk" on the love of seeing new things. It's crazy.
2. I'm braver than I ever imagined I would be.
There were so many times when I felt like I was doing something I had no business doing. I would say to the Native Ninja (Sabine) on these occasions, "The sh*t I get into with you..." It got to the point where she was repeating it back to me. We work well together, we balance each other out (2 Libras) and we challenge each other in very surprising ways.
3. Germany is beautiful.
As beautiful as Deutschland/Germany is I also had to realize that we have a lot of the same beauty at home. No one place has the lock on eye-catching scenery. I fully enjoyed the sights and sounds I got to witness in Germany. I also am thoroughly enjoying rediscovering all of the beauty right in my own backyard.
4. Wherever you go, there you are. ~Anonymous
Problems follow. Personality travels with you. Bad habits morph into other things. Tests happen wherever you go. Geography doesn't change destiny.
5. Friendship can be elastic.
There are a lot of things that can be said and that can transpire during nine weeks of living together. I'd like to formally and publicly thank my Hostess the Native Ninja Sabine, for bearing with me for the majority of the summer of 2013.
There is so much more I could say but I really feel like I should stop here. I fell in love with a little bit of every city I visited in Germany (Darmstadt, Worms, Florsheim, Hamburg, Wiesbaden, Mainz, Heidelberg and of course Frankfurt!)
It was a summer I will never forget and maybe its not goodbye to Germany, just "see ya later".
Sabine is still doing customized European Tours. You can contact her directly: tourguide@ok.de She is a consummate professional and will do her best to make sure your tour is great!
I, (Andrea/ARC) will soon be offering customized day tours of her hometown, Harrisburg, PA and nearby big cities (NYC, DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia). Feel free to use the contact info below to contact me. Stay tuned!
Contact us!!!
Email: travelninjasworldwide@gmail.com
Twitter: @travelninjas
Facebook: facebook.com/travelninjasworldwide
Pheed: Travel Ninjas
YouTube (search): TravelNinjasWorldW
Google+: Travel Ninjas Worldwide
Thank you for reading! Comments are welcome!
It has taken me this long to write my "goodbye" to Germany for various reasons. I learned so much on this trip abroad. Some things are intensely personal and not fit for a travel blog. Others will be shared...right...now.
1. Traveling opens up my whole heart.
By this I mean that I experience things on such a sensory level when I'm away from home. So present. So aware. Hypersensitive to everything. I felt wide open, vulnerable, challenged, tested...so many things. A lot of times I was "drunk" on the love of seeing new things. It's crazy.
2. I'm braver than I ever imagined I would be.
There were so many times when I felt like I was doing something I had no business doing. I would say to the Native Ninja (Sabine) on these occasions, "The sh*t I get into with you..." It got to the point where she was repeating it back to me. We work well together, we balance each other out (2 Libras) and we challenge each other in very surprising ways.
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| People said I was crazy to go away for 9 weeks. |
3. Germany is beautiful.
As beautiful as Deutschland/Germany is I also had to realize that we have a lot of the same beauty at home. No one place has the lock on eye-catching scenery. I fully enjoyed the sights and sounds I got to witness in Germany. I also am thoroughly enjoying rediscovering all of the beauty right in my own backyard.
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| Beautiful Hamburg. |
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| Beautiful Harrisburg |
Problems follow. Personality travels with you. Bad habits morph into other things. Tests happen wherever you go. Geography doesn't change destiny.
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| Always just me. |
5. Friendship can be elastic.
There are a lot of things that can be said and that can transpire during nine weeks of living together. I'd like to formally and publicly thank my Hostess the Native Ninja Sabine, for bearing with me for the majority of the summer of 2013.
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| Birthday 2012 |
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| Club night June 2013 |
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| Sun and fun July 2013 |
It was a summer I will never forget and maybe its not goodbye to Germany, just "see ya later".
Sabine is still doing customized European Tours. You can contact her directly: tourguide@ok.de She is a consummate professional and will do her best to make sure your tour is great!
I, (Andrea/ARC) will soon be offering customized day tours of her hometown, Harrisburg, PA and nearby big cities (NYC, DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia). Feel free to use the contact info below to contact me. Stay tuned!
Contact us!!!
Email: travelninjasworldwide@gmail.com
Twitter: @travelninjas
Facebook: facebook.com/travelninjasworldwide
Pheed: Travel Ninjas
YouTube (search): TravelNinjasWorldW
Google+: Travel Ninjas Worldwide
Thank you for reading! Comments are welcome!
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| TRAVEL NINJAS!!! |
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