Relief

All that fuss for one little sticker with a signature! 

Confessions from Copenhagen and stuff

Hey guys! Remember me? Marieke, 18, kinda chubby, slightly crazy, laughs too loudly? Yeah? Well, it’s your lucky day, because I’m back!

You see, on Monday I’m going on an adventure. An adventure to Ghana! My first time being outside of Europe, I am going there to find myself and hopefully God.... Ehm, no, sorry, no spiritual mumbo-jumbo nonsense from me. I’m going because it seems fun and exciting and new and scary and because I need some of that. I’m going because I CAN, because I’m spoiled and privileged and I want  to see and experience something different. I’m going because I want to prove to myself that I have guts and girl-balls. I’m going because I want new exciting foreign friends, and I want to breathe in the air in a new place, and try disgusting foods (They eat CAT) and get a wicked sunburn, and be a weird white person in a sea of black. I’m going because I’m sososo excited and I have enjoyed everything so far; the awful injections, the gigantic malaria pills, the emailing back-and-forth and the booking of the plane tickets. I’m even enjoying myself right now, right in the middle of,  of course, what else than, the trouble with the visa application.

Trouble with the visa application you say? That is so unusual and totally not-Marieke-like. You see, I am currently in a hotel room in Copenhagen (The one in Denmark) because there were some misunderstandings and mistakes and then some tears, and because I’m leaving on Monday  the only thing to do was to go to the embassy myself and fix it. So that’s what I’m gonna do tomorrow and then hopefully catch a plane back to Norway in the evening. I don’t even have a ticket back. I’m STRANDED in Denmark, walking around like a chicken without its head trying to maybe catch my plane to Ghana on Monday and actually be able to enter the country. Needless to say; I love my life. I guess I gotta learn to roll with the punches.

So that’s it, the ‘’I’m back post.’’ On Saturday you can expect the thrilling tale entitled ‘’2012; the year of Marieke’s perpetual bad luck.’’ Tune in, because you don’t wanna miss that. It’s all breaking stuff and messing stuff up and tears and feeling sorry for myself. It’s FUN.

Btw, I got lost trying to take the train to the hotel and ended up having to take a cab. YES, so far so… confused.