San Diego after holidays
So, here we are, in San Diego, on the lower west coast of USA, just north of Mexico. Since I wrote the last time I've been home in Sweden on holiday for about a month, with a few days in Belgium on the way back to work.
It was very nice to be home for a while, even though it as usual was too short a time to do everything I wanted to do and also be able to R&R (rest and recover). I saw my family and some of my friends, my best friend Erika finally managed to lure me up to Umeå to see her life as a student. A lot of things didn't really happen as I had hoped and planned, but I've lerant to be pretty flexible during my short stays at home. I changed my flatmate to a woman, and we actually had time for some girlie talk before I left. I do really miss not having anyone to have girlie talks with now and then when I'm at work. Nothing wrong with my roomie there, we just don't have the connection, so to speak, to talk about stuff like that...
Finally I had enough (well, everything is relative, especially time) time to spare a few days to go and visit my dear friends down in Belgium. Hadn't been there for two years, way too long, but what can you do with a life like mine? I'm very happy I took the time to go there, and those few days I couldn't really do anthing but relax, were very good for me. Too bad most of my friends have found new places and I've lost contact with them, but I managed to reconnect with a few even so. I was very happy to see my host family again, and for the first time, Georges, the latest addition to the Franquet Family=))
So, back onboard again the boat is in San Diego, having moved from all the storms down in Mexico. I'm not too sure about San Diego yet. It's a big city, the roads a pretty huge and you can't go anywhere from where we are unless you have a car. Which for me personally is a bit annoying, since I'm not very keen on taking the car out by myself and drive, especially on the roads here. At least the boat finally got a navigational system for the car, a small TomTom to help us get lost when we're out on the roads. The guys onboard hd it on a female voice, but I've changed it since I came onboard and noone has changed it back again. hehe. I prefer listening to men to tell me where to go instead of a woman. must be a girlie thing or something;)
Here in the harbour we've got a sea lion who likes to play around the boats. Haven't come up with a name for him yet, and luckily he hasn't been sleeping on our boat. We've got enough of a problem with the seagulls fly-bombing us...
My father has a couple of friends who live here, Larry and Grace. They took me out one weekend to see the sights of San Diego. I had a wonderful weekend with them; they are really lovely people and I'm looking forward to be able to see them again when we've finished with our season and are spending at least parts of the winter here. If I'm lucky with time I might even be able to see a real american Thanksgiving dinner=))
I got myself a Nintendo DS Lite and the game Brain Age, to train my brain. Pretty fun game, it helps me practise things I don't normally use, like quick mathematical problems, sudoko (which I've recently got hooked on), memorising words, making the brain look for right kind of information quickly=)
It was very nice to be home for a while, even though it as usual was too short a time to do everything I wanted to do and also be able to R&R (rest and recover). I saw my family and some of my friends, my best friend Erika finally managed to lure me up to Umeå to see her life as a student. A lot of things didn't really happen as I had hoped and planned, but I've lerant to be pretty flexible during my short stays at home. I changed my flatmate to a woman, and we actually had time for some girlie talk before I left. I do really miss not having anyone to have girlie talks with now and then when I'm at work. Nothing wrong with my roomie there, we just don't have the connection, so to speak, to talk about stuff like that...
Finally I had enough (well, everything is relative, especially time) time to spare a few days to go and visit my dear friends down in Belgium. Hadn't been there for two years, way too long, but what can you do with a life like mine? I'm very happy I took the time to go there, and those few days I couldn't really do anthing but relax, were very good for me. Too bad most of my friends have found new places and I've lost contact with them, but I managed to reconnect with a few even so. I was very happy to see my host family again, and for the first time, Georges, the latest addition to the Franquet Family=))
So, back onboard again the boat is in San Diego, having moved from all the storms down in Mexico. I'm not too sure about San Diego yet. It's a big city, the roads a pretty huge and you can't go anywhere from where we are unless you have a car. Which for me personally is a bit annoying, since I'm not very keen on taking the car out by myself and drive, especially on the roads here. At least the boat finally got a navigational system for the car, a small TomTom to help us get lost when we're out on the roads. The guys onboard hd it on a female voice, but I've changed it since I came onboard and noone has changed it back again. hehe. I prefer listening to men to tell me where to go instead of a woman. must be a girlie thing or something;)
Here in the harbour we've got a sea lion who likes to play around the boats. Haven't come up with a name for him yet, and luckily he hasn't been sleeping on our boat. We've got enough of a problem with the seagulls fly-bombing us...
My father has a couple of friends who live here, Larry and Grace. They took me out one weekend to see the sights of San Diego. I had a wonderful weekend with them; they are really lovely people and I'm looking forward to be able to see them again when we've finished with our season and are spending at least parts of the winter here. If I'm lucky with time I might even be able to see a real american Thanksgiving dinner=))
I got myself a Nintendo DS Lite and the game Brain Age, to train my brain. Pretty fun game, it helps me practise things I don't normally use, like quick mathematical problems, sudoko (which I've recently got hooked on), memorising words, making the brain look for right kind of information quickly=)