Saturday, September 23, 2006

Priority

I noticed I made some people wonder and even upset with my travel schedule. Please note that traveling around the world has been a big dream my whole life. I'm only going after what I've been dreaming of since I was little.(yes, I know)
Now that I've found passion in photography. I have another big reason to travel. Some don't understand how I can afford it.
One of the reason is priority. Some people prefer to spend their money for fancy shoes, some for alcohol, some for automobile. I love those things too, but most of the time I prefer to save my money for photography and travel. Because to me, those are a part of me that will stay with me.
The other reason is that I travel in budget. I stayed in cheap hostels, avoided fancy restaurants, avoided taxi (walk instead), contacted some of my friends and stayed in their place (thanks,guys),and tried to resist the shopping temptation. What some of you might not believe is that I don't think I spent a lot more money than most of you spend in a regular month. I'm guessing it's even less.
So that's how I can afford to follow my dreams. :)

Sunday, September 03, 2006

JellyFishy

I forgot to tell you about my duel with a jellyfish in Greece.
It was a very hot day. I was on a tour around Santorini Island with a sailing boat. One of the site on schedule was this beautiful but not so hot hot spring. It's an Orange Hot Spring in Palia Kameni.

So as I was swimming in the not so hot hot spring, this TINY jellyfish swam towards me and attack me in the arm. I'm not kidding, it was really small. That is so not fair cos I wasn't ready for the duel. Also not fair cos it was using it's poisonous sting. I bet the jelly knows that me as a human being don't have poisonous defense mechanism. That means it was using a tool that was not allowed in the duel.
Thankfully, I have one of the best treatment: pee. So that was really convenient.

Friday, September 01, 2006

Back Home

Phew!
Finally home in Santa Monica. Europe has been great but it's nice to get back home after a little while. First day wasn't really relaxing. I unpacked and washed all my clothes right away. Nothing inside the luggage is clean. Haha...

I finally can really look at the photos I've taken and edit them. Pretty cool to look at them and remember all those things I've experienced. There are some things that I didn't noticed until I looked at the photos which is pretty cool. That's one of the cool things about photos.
Copyright 2006 Anna Munandar