KiraDoll

hi

2005-06-16T12:29:15Z

Its been an interesting experience though, and the amount of different types of people i met and the stuff i learnt i feel is going to explode my mind.

But the seaside was nice, and i went sailing with some friends there. and i drank a fucken lot and ate so much food. umm.

I just want to get home though (june 20th 10 am) and start doing other things. I want to start on the things i thought about on the camino, and i want to do bikrams 2 times a day.

And i miss everyone. so much.

oh i might have a place to live in granville island when i get back. my dads friend who is taking care of her mom in slovenia has her place in vancouver free while she is there. So she said i could move in, (not free of course) but i just want to get away from family and spend more time on my own. I need kira time. thats for sure.

see you guys soon!!

Kira

hi

2005-06-08T12:11:46Z

im in slovenia-

same old stuff.

going to croatia to the sea.

blah.

kira

no more holas

2005-05-31T21:35:40Z

Im leaving barcelona for london tommorow. The camino ended, barcelona started, with mucho shopping. woo. I needed clothes badly after wearing the same ones for a month. YOU SEE YOUR WORDROBE SELECTION WHEN YOU CARRY EVERYTHING YOU NEED FOR THIRTY DAYS!!!! anyway im happy now.

mom and i went to two tapas bars today, so happy. i love goood food.

now we are going to london early, and then i get to hang out with emerson and party with himin london. We are going to see aphex twin. woo. i cant wait.

hope i dont get robbed on the way home. barcelona is sketchy.

kira

ok ok

2005-05-22T15:28:36Z

so things arent that bad. lol.

time goes quick and only 4 more days left. woo! actually i might walk 4 more days after we get to our destination, and walk to this place called finnesterre, which literally in latin means the end of the earth. its where `people saw the sun set every night and hoped that it would rise in the morning. back before people knew the earth was round (in europe at least).

just saying hi,

kira

My meltdown (s)

2005-05-21T09:38:28Z

Omg.

I cant believe im here. i cant believe im doing this. i realized i must be fucken stupid as hell to do this. walk 30 km -ish everyday, spend 8 ish hours walking a drive that would take 30 mins. Its pretty fucken stupid.

The places Im staying at sometimes are very hard to deal with. They are gross and the people are worse. Its every foreign language except english mostly. I sometimes have a hard time with nothing being familiar, and soemtimes its ok. mom and I are going to stay at cheap (10 euro a night) places from now on as we are both sick and having problems dealing with rude people.

Walking so much is very hard. Sometimes I just want to quit, but I keep on. Its not just walking along too. I have crossed over two mountain ranges, two wine regions, 1 prarie, and everything in between. I have had sunburn, windburn, sore feet, body, heatstroke and bad spirits in general.

but it has also been an amazing experience. Sometimes walking between mountain ranges, or flat on the praries gives a person time to think. and its hard to describe the feeling one gets when being exposed to (all of) the elements. And its a good day when the shower has hot water and the room has heat. It is undescribable.

Most of you know that I enjoy time alone. ANd its hard when there are 80 other people staying the the same hostel place and you have to share showers, dining rooms, bathrooms, kitchens, etc. with all of them. And then get up and walk the next day with them all. I dont like being around that many people all the time. and Iam also alway with my mother, expect when i can get away at night and sit by myself for 15 minuites before bed.

But i cant really describe this. Ill have pics maybe on the internet soon. and i ve taken alot with my regular camera.

i want to be a real person again, to wear something other then hiking clothes, and boots, and to not have to be around so many people. This has to be the hardest thing ive ever done.

ANyway. meltdowns or no, im glad ive done this, and made it this far. over 600 km i have walked, and about 100 more to go.

miss you all.

Kira

kiradoll @ 2005-05-12T23:08:00

2005-05-12T21:09:04Z

i walked another 37 km today.
dear jesus. i got some sorta wind/sun burn on my legs which made it hard
to walk untill i had a bath and some cream on them. mom and i walked
around for food and had a salad and eggs and w2ine. lots of wine. mom
had too much. she looks funny walking around as her feet hurt her too
much. throught the day i hated and also loved the camino. i took some
amazing pictures of the praries and how the sun lit up the red earth.

catch the earth on fire,
keep on walking.
enjoy the sun.

walked about 4 hours more, got cautght in a downpour, walked along the
highway into this big town called leon. here im in an internet cafe
after dinner and enjoying the nice new computers. woo.

too tired to think. all of us on the camino can understand the comment
¨oh i was sick so i only walked 20 km today ¨

pretty neat experience.

kiradoll @ 2005-05-11T21:32:00

2005-05-10T19:35:31Z

hola

me again.

i walked 40 km today. im feeling ok suprizingly. feet were sore at the end. so im at 290 km so far, abour 350 to go. things are good. it rained a bit todya which helped the long walk as we werent over heated.

im in a real workers town. everyone stares at you since there is nothing else going on. its wierd.

i decided this is very wierd. preetty stupid too. 30 days is too long to walk. but its ok and i remind myself to just be in the moment. its what gets me through. that and shopping in barcelona. heh.

cant wait to be home. cant wait to visit my friends in slovenia. cant wait to be finished this damn camino. lol.

if interested im doing " el camino de santiago" google

take care

kira

hello

2005-05-09T18:33:28Z

hi

im in spain.

my quote for the day: from the eurythrmics (sp)
"
want to walk in the open wind

want to talk like lovers do
want to dive into your ocean
is it raining with you? "

so im walking 20-30 km a day. so far i have walked 250 km in 11 days. Im pretty tired but walking is amazing. im in the prarie land of spain and its flat and totally beautiful. the walking is hard work, and tiring, but totally great.

i was walking and this morning and thinking how stupid this is, but then again i should just enjoy this moment, because i may never get one like this again.

and im happy im not sick anymore. i guess i should remember to be fortunate iam able to walk so far, for so long.

blah blah blah.

kira power.

(too much sun) and wine.

teh kira

im comming home

2004-06-18T08:53:17Z

soon! im so excited. im tired and sad and my brother wasnt where i told hime to meet me. fuck. alone in rome. good thing ive been here before and know my way around.

leaving slovenia was really sad. my friends dropped me off and it was really hard.

see you all soon!

kira

Home

2004-06-11T12:44:41Z

I miss home. But im ok here. im staying at my aunts apartment in the big city in slovenia. *sigh* I love it here. But I want to see you again.

ok ok im still here

2004-06-10T12:39:03Z

In slovenia. Not going to germany. i have some great friends here. And its hot! omg so hot. and im pretty tanned. awsome.

Today im going swimming and then getting stoned or something like that. :) I love it here it really is like my second home. Ok i should get going.

Im really looking forward to comming home though. I miss life and my friends there. all you guys *sniffle* it seems like ive been gone forever, what a crazy trip.

love

kira

Slovenia Again

2004-06-02T13:28:51Z

Life is good here. This moring I went for coffee and then to Maja s friends place for some lunch. Then I went home and for a 40 min run. Non-Stop! I was happy about that after being in the big cities and breathing in all the yuck. Now Im at majas friends place using the internet.

Still deciding between Spending more time in Slovenia or going to Germany. Hummm. Ok

bye bye.

Kira

leaving Praha

2004-05-31T14:36:52Z

*sigh*

Ive been here a week! its crazy. Pretty nice here. opera, beer, coffee, repeat. so yeah, going to Slovenia now. Going to chill with my friend maja which will be fun. I might be going to Germany for a bit but Im not too sure about that. Who knows.

I met some fun canadian girl and rob and her and i went out on friday night with some other people from our hostel. yep. much beer and stuff. It was fun though.

So I saw alot of Prague. The castle, parks, the old city, the opera houses. Yep

ok missing home but i know the next two + weeks are going to go by really quickly so Im going to enjoy it while i can.

dont take candy from strangers

2004-05-29T15:09:37Z

ok ok
im fine
but i had some smoke from this guy and like 30 mins later i was all fucked up and stuff. I had to go home early. :( booo. So i missed sven vath cause i got all sick and feverish. I had my last drink two hours before i got ill so i dont think it was that. but boo none the less. it sucked. Im just happy i got home safe and didnt lose anything or worse. boo. it was pretty fun before that happened though. awsome techno. fun rave like we used to have. security threw out my water bottle but i went back later and stole it. He wasnt going to let me but i just took it anyway. heh

so im staying in prague till monday. earlier today i saw this awsomwe opera called kate and the devil. it was visually awsome as well as the music was very good.

ok going to see the magic flute and the marrige of figarro tommorow. :)

so lessons learnt.

Kira

bar

2004-05-28T20:10:39Z

Im at some bar in praha where thez have free internet. yaay. in one hour i see sven vath. awsome. just drinking before hand. hopefully it will be fun. my brothers first rave. awwww.

much love.

kira

Im addicted

2004-05-26T20:57:37Z

its offical. I really love classical music. yes. I went to the prague radio symphony orchestra tonight. it was totally amazing. The chaos! it was soo cool. And well done. and just totally amazing. Heh. Im such a loser. when my mom was my age and she went to europe she went to all the bars. when i go i go to all the symphonies and operas. something must be wrong with me.

im on a music binge right now. its awsome.

yay.

Praha and Opera

2004-05-25T12:57:10Z

Now Iam in Prague. Its pretty nice. But not very sunny so that sucks alot. boo bad weather. Im glad to be out of budapest though. I didnt like it there very much. My last night in Budapest I went to the opera with rob for under 10$ and last night in Praha I went as well. I saw don carlo in budapest, and don giovanni here. Tonight Im going to see Madam Butterfly. Im really excited. Don giovanni was really great and I saw it in the same opera house that it opened in in 17-- something. mozart really was a genious. seriously.

Time goes by really quickly here. Which is good and bad. I went shopping and bought some stuff. Im not really interested in buying any more things here. I mainly bought a sweater because its really cold and a purse for the opera. I also have to do laundry in a bad way. boo.

So things are pretty good. Im loving the city. Its beautiful. Ok and you guys really are going to kill me for this one:

http://cocoon.net/clubbing/news/news_engl/news_europe2004_eng.html

scroll down to may 28th. then on may 29th im going to hungary for the other nights.

opera and techno. my fav. :) ok its getting sorta sunny here so i should go outside!

miss you guys.

Kira

Budapest, Hungary

2004-05-21T21:02:18Z

yay

ok ok
im not going to see kraft werk. not so people like me again (re comments.. they were in seattle the weekend of april 25th i think) but because my priorites lie in prague. and i want to come back to hungary to see galye san and then dave seaman. Theres this special if you buy tickets to both nights and two nights hotel for about 80$. not too bad. although i wont use them both nights as the clubs end around 8 or 9 for these shows. awsome

travelling can get pretty lonley sometimes. Especially when you dont know the language.

I walked with rob to the royal palace and some older part of the city. it was pretty cool. and then we went to this hill that overlooked the city and it was pretty awsome. they had this monument of a woman 40 meters high and two other statues. one symbolizing the toarch of hope and one destruction. there was also a statue of a soviet soldier there but they took it down after the fall of communism. it s pretty crazy because the monument was made when the soviets "liberated' the hungarians from the nazis. of course its occupation of hungary after that. so they took doen the rssian soldier statue and you can see on one part where there was a communist star taken down as well.

I think its like rewriting history. but no wonder they took it down. such an oppressive symbol. they took all their old soviet statues and its in a park outside of the city. im going to walk to it tommorow. crazy.

and theres all these apartment buildings that all look the same spread out in the suburbs of the city. it guess they were built during soviet times for people to live it. its creepy how many they are and how identical they are.

so things are good but i do miss home quite a bit. but its interesting to imagine what life was like here.

ok maybe rob and i will go out now for a drink and to see the city at night.

ok love

kira

budapest!!

2004-05-20T16:00:57Z

im in budapest right now. awsome. im going to see gayle san and then dave seaman the next day. but thats not for a while.

agh!

i can go to kraftwerk on the 25th here! agh!

ok ill write more later

kira

zivio!

2004-05-18T10:30:21Z

today we are leaving slovenia for munich to drop off my mom. then dad and rob and i are going to budapest. then rob and i are going to prague. woot. even though it means leaving all the super cute slovenian boys behind. too bad but such is life. id rather see prague before its too crazy and commercial then some wierd boys.

ive been having fun here. just chilling out and drinking coffee and wine for hours. talking shit with my old friend maja from here and her friends (who are all boys). I love it. I dont see maja for so long but she is just like me. stuborn, likes to travel, has a ton of guy friends, likes wine and coffee. so wonderful. really. And ive been trying really hard to learn more slovenian. Im doing ok. but it will take forever. I must learn though!

Staying with my family is going ok. the last two nights we were out till around 230 or something like that and they didnt even care.

oh and last night i heard about this group in budapest that is this big gipsy band and theres no conductor and no music to read but they play the wonst wonderful classical music fusion with gipsy music. its amazing. i want to try and see what that is like. or at least bring back some cds.

ok thats al for me right now. drinking, music, blah blah.

im going to have to find myself a bf though when i am travelling who will elt me stay at his place as i am running out of money. crap. heh. oh well. hopefully my visa will last a bit longer. i havent really spent money the last few days as maja and all her friends buy us drinks all the time. it rules. drinking is so creap here everyone just takes turns paying for people. my kinda country. the national hero is a poet and the anthem is written out in the shape of a wine glass. awsome. ok jas grem

adijo!

Kira

bah

2004-05-15T09:18:42Z

rob and i missed our flight to venice because we didnt check which airport we were flying out of. opps. but everythings ok, it just took longer and more moeny. we are in slovenia now. i freaking love slovenia. its the best country ever. its beautiful with tons of wine and vineyards and churches and stuff like that. and my dads friends all own resturants and its so beautiful seeing them all get together drinking and then they bring out the accordian and play it and sing. it must be so nice to have a culture. im slovenian too but its different because i dont know the language. Oh well.

im going to go to my dads friends resturants to meet my parents for coffee. aparently my moms trying to set me up with the guys 22 yr old son. maybe hes cute. who knows. probably not. heh.

so thats about it. i bought some fun clothes at H & M in barcelona, not much at all really, but its better than the no clothes i had before. ok gtg.

kira

barcelona

2004-05-11T22:44:58Z

pretty cool. except everyone is out to rob you. seriously this guy across from me at the interenet cafe is just pretending to be on the internet i swear. ive never had so many people warn me about pickpocketers in my life, and ive been to nyc, rome, london, etc. i mean big cities. its insane.

ive been walking around alot and drinking alot of .45 euro tetra packs of red wine. it s pretty good actually for less than a dollar for a liter of wine. im going to try and bring back like 10 packs. even if i pay 2$ a liter its still a liter of wine for 3$. awsome. but i think too much wine.

im going to see alot of art by gaudi, he does these wierd arty buildings. I also bought a diesel side bag. it was too much but all my cool side bags died on me. im going to try and see if energy has any cool bags too i can get. And im totally going crazy at H &m this cool department chain.

ive been walking around for hours and hours all the time. its insane. bah! good to walk off the red wine though.

there are too many people here though. waay too crazy. and i feel like such a tard in my crappy runners. oh well. im going to buy some cute shoes tommorow.

ok bye!

Kira

barcelona

2004-05-11T10:39:50Z

Just a quick note. Barcelona is pretty cool. Im with my brother and somee hippy we met. hes nice. we are just walking around alot, drinking, whatever.

I miss people but am having a good time here. if you expect a postcard then you better give me your address. I cant guess here ppl.

the 13th my dads meeting roba nd i in venice and we are going to go to budapest and then rob and i are going to the czech repuplic, then slovenia, then maybe croatia then italy. that is if i dont get my job. if i get the job im going to venice, budapest, slovenia, then vienna. awsome.

ok whatever happens happens. I m not going to try and force anything or worry. Blah. Im just going to swim and run.

Ok love you all.

k

omg omg

2004-05-07T10:10:55Z

I m going to Barcelona today. woo! and then to budapest and slovenia. and then i may have a job lined up in Vienna for a couple weeks thanks to glyn and his family. woo! then i fly out of rome home. woo! ok im going to write some postcards and get my bags.

This trip started out slow but Im feeling alot better now. :)

today

2004-05-06T12:30:52Z

a reflection

when I was in front of people on the camino it was harder. If i stopped to make sure i was going the rigth way people caught up to me. ANd some times I just wanted to follow. Making me realize its harder to be the leader, and those who follow dont have to stop and try and figure things out, but they do have to have faith that the person ahead of them was right. ANd its those who dont question who may go the wrong way because they didnt bother to think for themselves. ANd when you go the wrong way on the camino and have to walk an extra couple hours, its a very long couple hours. So i guess we should find a balance. faith, leadership and questioning life. where do you think you stand.

Kiras new plan for life:

When in doubt, run it out.
when in doubt, write it out.

if i feel sad Im going to run. if i feel lost im going to sit and write. And if im alone, and noone will talk to me, im going to put on my headphones and smile, because Im happy to be here.

the most amazing thing about the camino:

Whenever you needed help, someone was there. I have a hundred examples. and when you needed to be alone, you were. but everything happened for a reason and everything happened. And it happens at home too, but I worried about things turing out right all the time. but I should just let them happen. Because we shouldnt stop the flow of life. Just keep on going. Just walk. Just breath. Just be.