tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10316998226062589082025-01-29T20:17:00.315+01:00Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1031699822606258908.post-66772830591863301662011-11-10T16:11:00.000+01:002012-03-27T12:28:58.796+02:00

The Secret Life of Kim Boes and how she does it What is my secret? How can I live the way I do? How can I be everywhere and nowhere and change destinations every 2 - 3 months?  Graduation Speech  First, during my studies I already 'taught' finance to several people. I absolutely love finance (one of these rare people) and really wanted these people to understand it as well.

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'Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved'  - Ann Douglas  The Netherlands vs The World About a month ago I decided to go 'home', to The Netherlands, where my parents live. I am not entirely sure if this is my main 'home' as I have had many places that I called this over the last years. Also Austria is home and Berlin and I even sometimes consider New Zealand

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'It's easier to find a travelling companion than to get rid of one' - Art Buchwald Two might be one to many: Backpacking & Travelling Companion Im selfish, I want to do what I want to do, I want to see things I want to see and if I have the opportunity to travel alone, I will travel alone. This first sentence sounds like I am one of these socially awkward people, an '

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'When you're in my house you shall do as I do and believe in who I believe in. So Bart, butter your Bacon!' - Homer Simpson A couple of weeks ago I informed you about my 'poor' job situation in my 'motivation' post. Today I am proud to tell you that a lot of changes occurred and that I have a plan, as far as plans work in my life, but that's another story.  So, what am I doing?

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In my creative hour I decided to check various dictionaries on the definition of 'Kitchen' Mac Dictionary kitch.en |ˈki ch ən| noun a room or area where food is prepared and cooked. The Free Dictionarykitch-en a. a room or part of a building equipped for preparing and cooking foodThe Cambridge Dictionary kitchen a room where food is kept, prepared and cooked

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2Berlin, Germany52.5234051 13.411399952.2142546 12.779685899999999 52.8325556 14.0431139tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1031699822606258908.post-62415561288880642202011-08-31T22:16:00.000+02:002011-09-01T17:10:57.447+02:00

'If you think you have things under control, you're not going fast enough' - Mario Andretti  It's raining down, poring down, on my parade... Literally. Since I moved to Berlin it has been raining, a LOT! I haven't been properly dry since I arrived on the 12th of July in this awesome city. Which is almost seven weeks now! What happened to the sun? What happened to the summer? .....

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Berlin, Germany52.5234051 13.411399952.2142546 12.779685899999999 52.8325556 14.0431139tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1031699822606258908.post-84665289796431140782011-03-07T04:51:00.000+01:002011-03-07T04:51:44.780+01:00

'For my part I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake.The great affair is to move' - Robert Louis Stenson Where to begin? Choice, opportunities, challenges... Questions, plans and endless conversations without an end. Circles, running around in circles... and time... time who pores down rain on my parade.  New Zealand is the country of my dreams. I can be myself,

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What would you do if you weren't afraid? - Dr. Spencer Johnson  In 2006 I started a relationship from which I knew it was not as it should be. However, I did not stop it. I put in more and more effort to try to change this person. In April 2010 I finally ended it and did not understand why I hadn't done it earlier. Of course I was devistated, cried for days and thought it was the end of my

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'A good traveller has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving' -  Lao Tzu  I'm Back. I'm back in New Zealand. I arrived four days ago and it feels like I've never been back to Europe.  Everything is still the same, only the temperature has gone up with about 20 degrees :)  After some awesome days and nights (due to my friend called Jet lag) in Wellington I went back up to

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At the moment my life is all about my studies and my return to New Zealand. However, the last one is causing some sleepless nights...  It is 11pm and I'm in bed, I want to go to sleep but there is this little person running around in my head, bouncing. It keeps releasing opportunities, challenges and difficulties of where to go, what to do and how to do it.  For the lucky ones that

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'When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable' - Clifton Fadiman I like surprises, I like to travel to the unknown. In September I visited my friend in Thailand after an amazing winter in New Zealand. Totally unprepared. The only thing I was sure about was my flight. And you know what? I like to be in

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How much should you tolerate when it comes to making money? This weekend I had the opportunity to finally set my boundaries when it comes to this.  As I am a poor student, longing to go back to New Zealand in exactly 65 days, I need to scrip and save to keep the wolves from the door and should definitely make some money. Therefore, I signed up for any random gastronomy job in Salzburg. As I

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'Breaking work tip: Don't be the first one in your office to announce Facebook is down'  Facebook has been down, it's world news...online. What to do without FB? Is there a life without our favorite social network? It is amazing how the world panics when the website is down. Unfortunately this happened twice over the last month. How are we going to tell the world we just went to the toilet

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Heart pounding...wet hands. A smile, though a bit exaggerated. Goose bumps  and a short shiver. Feeling totally in control....for one second. Look over the edge to seem brave. Put on the gear and feel your heart pounding even more. Say out loud 'Mum, I love you'. Feel really happy you are not doing this on your own (in my case). See your hero getting all geared up. Put on yet another, less

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As you may know I am travelling the south island of NZ at the moment. I got myself a Stray pass, hopped,last Thursday, on the Intercity from Auckland to Wellington, got on the ferry to Picton after a good night out in the hostel where I stayed, slept a couple of hours during the crossing and jumped onto Daisy's bus in Picton. Surprisingly, I managed to crump all I wanted, or needed, to bring down

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After spending the last two days on expanding my knowledge on social media networks such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn I came to the conclusion that it doesn't matter where you are in the world, the news and your friends know where to find you.  I remember opening my Facebook account only because of my friends. What is this Facebook, I don't need this I have Hyves. Who needs Facebook

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I was just sitting on the patio at the lovely house I am living in knitting yet another beanie and could not help thinking about the reasons why people decide to go backpacking. I could only come up with some of them. Why do people motivate themselves to cram their life in a 23kg backpack to travel around the world, live on pasta and soup, sleep in noisy, smelly, hostels with snoring or sleep

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My first weekend here I went on my Famil trip with Stray. Holly put me on the TOM pass which meant that I was going to see a large part of the north island. Saturday morning the bus picked me up at the hostel where I was staying. Gollom was going to be my driver for the next days and everybody told me that he, for sure, was going to take good care of me. Remember, I will refer to this sentence

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Just to be honest, I didn't like Auckland at all the first days I was here. Boring, big, unattractive, grey city. This may have been caused by the horrible flight I had from which I will spare you the details. During my first days I stayed at Nomads Fusion, Fort St., where I got to know some backpackers. Some loved the city whereas others were happy to leave. I was confused. This should have been

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As you may know, at the moment, my home is New Zealand. Aotearoa, 'The Land of the Long White Cloud'. I flew down here in June to work for a company called Stray Travel. I will do an internship with them for the next three months in order to finish my Innovation & Management in Tourism study in Salzburg, Austria, next year. Over the last five years I travelled around Europe although, as many

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Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus was born in 1465. He was a Dutch Renaissance humanist, a Catholic priest and theologian. During his life he travelled throughout Europe for his study and work. He died in 1536 in Basel.This is a short summary about the man behind it all. The experience of our life, the time of our life. That one period when we are able to go abroad and move our boundaries in ways of

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