Hey, I've got some new shoes on..

As I skipped a night, I naturally skipped the following morning. I woke up around one or two in the afternoon and we had a long breakfast/lunch. We visited the K-mart so Lisianne could pick up some bedsheets. As I have tiny feet (size 35) I wondered what size I had here. Lisianne reasoned that I should be able to find shoes more easily because of all the Asians here. We walked to the racks with the ‘couple of dollars for shoes’ racks, you know, the type that are mostly laughably ugly, but they have some reasonable sneakers hidden in between. As I still did not fit into the smallest pair that was present there, we kind of jokingly went to the kiddy section. As you might be able to guess, I am now wearing grey sneakers with black stars, size two, $8 and actually meant for kids in primary. I literally just clipped of a tag that says I can get a refund if they are broken before I outgrow them. Oh well, I tell myself these shoes will walk together a great story and like they say, size doesn’t matter right?

That evening we decided to try out the BBQ on the ninth floor of the hostel, where we got a big bun with beef, kangaroo or veggie. There we met a fellow Dutchman, who had been travelling for 18 months, from Africa, to Asia to Australia. Thursday he would head back home. I admire these travelers I have met so far. After two weeks I am already tired of living out of a suitcase and I am not even moving from hostel to hostel. Naturally my suitcase-in-which-I-would-fit is not the right luggage to travel with, but I can’t picture myself with a big backpack either. It is one more day until I move hose and I can’t wait to unpack my things, have constant internet and something I can call home, even though it will be for a little while. The next morning I even got a surprising call from Lisianne, who started her first day of introduction. Not only will I be sharing house with her. It seems my old high school mate Harm, who now studies University College in Maastricht, not only coincidentally goes on exchange to the same university, he also shares a room in the same house. It’s a small world after all.