Love Life

Basel

Big Howdy from cute Switzerland!
Chilling in and around Cologne was fun. I met some more friends I haven’t seen in ages and bummed around at pivot skateshop with all those dudes around robotron. family feeling!
Saturday I had big troubles getting a rental car, because the internet agency fucked everything up. eventually we got a car in frankfurt on sunday, after 3h of telephone calls. biggest fuck up!
The Bright Skateboarding Exhibition was cool, crazy, insane including a vice party and a damn good band i would love to know the name of…
Yesterday we left Frankfurt for the first ROBOTRON Tourstop basel, where we will spend this second night at as well. damn, the hostel is bloody expensive!
The media team is dope and we are all very pushed, so we skated noon to midnight today. pretty damn exhausting ya! gotta go to bed now because i have to get up before everybody else to organize a rich breakfast.
holla

PS: sorry I couldn’t post pics the last few times. computers suck

doin’ alright

The 1st Skateboard competition I competed in since I’m back was quite succesful. In course of the premier of the new JART Video „Now or Never“ there was a little best trick contest down a rail at alex skatehall Osnabrück. Doin’ a fakie bs lipslide, 270 bs Lip and sw Flip fs Boardslide made me win a limited Jart Board. For Photos check spohlmann.de. Considering I filmed a line at a videogenic spot just before, it was a petty good day for me. Stoked!

Spending the night at my good mates house, thx Janni, I drove to our nearby, inherited family property to work in the woods with my dad. Driving the tractor and swinging the chainsaw in some lonesome forest is fun and exercise, I like!

At the same place there was my aunties farewell party on Saturday.
Dancing & Drinking with older people, yeahha!
She and her friend, they go to Australia for a half year Caravan Tour.
Oh, Ozziland, I miss ya…

Today I am getting organized for a longer trip doin’ several things. Tomorrow I’ll visit Eric Mirbachs Exhibition (ericmirbach.com) and also some relatives in and around Mönchengladbach.
Wednesday to Friday I’ll be visiting friends in Cologne, Saturday a Skateboard Exhibition in Frankfurt from where we’ll start our ROBOTRON Tour to Mailano, Italy.
Exciting! Stay tuned.

Summer Feeling in GER

It’s been two weeks since I arrived in Good Old. Feels more like 2 months, sometimes I actually wonder if that really all happend?! People in my home village still look (some got a bit less or just more grey hair) and are the same, at home I still sometimes feel like being part of a „Loriot“ play with my parents in the star-roles and even my own reactions haven’t really altered. Kinda half-baked I was worrying of how me, my environment and eventually our interactions would have changed significantly. But why should things changed really? Only because I was gone for a while? Bullshit. I am not even really modified myself…may be matured, shaped…or just blunted.

I did quite a lot in these days and met a bunch of people. That’s cool. The only negative is that the more people u meet who u wanted to meet, the more u meet who u didn’t want to.

Anyways I had good times going to Hannover for skating, being at a hip-hop-festival, going swimming at the local water filled gravel pit (It’s bloody hot here since Saturday, up to 35^oC) and just hanging around with people.

It’s so good to have a friend like Tjark around u can always call to start smth or just to talk bullshit. Pityfully he’s the last good friend which remained around Nienburg. Others are travelling; or working or studying in far Berlin, Cologne, Osnabrück, Hannover etc. …
That’s most places where I might end up soon. Berlin, Cologne, Bonn and Hanover are my favorite places to go to study to. The Applications are done for these citys and subjects like geography, ecologic engineering and biochemistry. The final decision for the subject combining a city is to make in september.

Right now organizing the coming ROBOTRON Tour, as new „Team Manager“ (Buyaka!), keeps me quite busy.
Next week I go to Cologne. Officially the tour then starts at the Bright Skatebord exposition in Frankfurt. Coninueing via Basel to Mailand, or so. We’ll see…
To organize a world trip for just U is way easier & relaxter, that’s for sure. But: I am really looking forward to go on a jolly Skate Trip with u guys Skippy, Snake, Kalle, Fatos, Eric and Tim!

Dope! My friend & host at Dirty-Lens Productions, Adelaide, finally send away the edited Australia Footage. Can’t wait to show it to u guys!

Back Home

So on Wednesday, after some delayed flights I made it all way to Hamburg without loosing my ticket more than once. From leaving my hotel to finally hug my mates Tjark & Mo, who picked me up with a funny banner, it took me about 25h.
The last hour before arriving in the cloudy northern metropole I couldn´t resist smiling permanently. The thought of seeing all my friends and family soon was just too exciting. Setting my feet on german ground again felt good but odd somehow.
Suddenly, spoken german surrounded me, german police men wich are still wearing their ugly green uniforms watched me and many faces or their expressions just looked familiar. In all this excitement it didn´t even bother me, that my luggage had not made it further than London/Heathrow, which has been totally chaotic after two bombs had been found just before.
Leaving the airport I was pretty puzzled though. The culture shock wasn´t as big as when I arrived in Bangkok 10 months ago, but almost. All those new cars driving well-regulated, clean streets & houses and of course all the green. Yeah, I missed the rich, natural green and the very fresh air!

Spending the first night in Hamburg at a mates flat in HH, I surprised my sister at her new Job and later my parents at home (I told them I´d arrive later that day).
An auntie, my siblings and their partners plus plenty of friends visited the maison Beneker during the last days. Thereby the welcome was pretty perfect seeing all them. We had good fun like back in the days, they appreciated my photoshow, I guess, and all of us were just happy to see each other again.
Until today somebody always was around me or I was around somebody, so I didn´t really reflect anything yet. It´s odd how quick you are back in your old sentiment. It took me not even 2 days I´d say, but now I am starting to take it a bit more easy, rest and think.
Still I am confused when I glance at the clock at dusk to find out it´s around 10pm. My last sunset in South America was at 5.30pm…so this definetly is my strongest Jet Lag ever.
Fortuneatly it is summer here, even though the sun is hidden by fat clouds which empty themselves too often it makes me feel well.
Of course I had to increase my speed of life a bit. Although I do not have many obligations, there are more than when I traveled by myself. And all the things U don´t wanna miss out on are tempting, then people want to see U and U wanna to see ’em as well. Also the first deadline at the end of this weak starts to bother me. It seems important I apply for University eventually.

Ride on!

That’s it?!

Can’t really believe this should have been it. Has this really been 10 months? That’s the bad thing about good times, they pass by so quick. But I guess it is real although it doesn’t feel like, it is the last day of my world trip. I feel like I changed a lot and that the hole thing really cleared and matured my mind. That’s one of the reasons, going home feels so strange. When I look at it from that point of view I see it’s been a long time. Am I able to feel home at germany again? Won’t the same things that made me wanna leave it in first place piss me off again, and even more? Well, I guess I can appreciate little things some people do not even recognize better by now and I also think that I am way more patient and relaxed to deal with it. But how long will those good vibes I sucked in on my travels, meeting so many wonderful and helpful people, last in the dullness of an enduring german winter? That’s some little worries I have. But I had those for most of my destinations. Quite very often they turned out to be pointless.

I’ll enter the airplane with one crying and one laughing eye, that’s for sure. The Trip doubtless was an incredibly great adventure of my life. But I’m so looking forward to see family & friends, to have a base and start all the thing I’m planning to, so I’m sure I’ll be happy to be back. This Chapter is closed, the next one is just waiting. The Journey won’t be finished at home, life is a journey. I’m excited.

Bittersweet

After one adorable week of togetherness I accompanyed Liz to her plane for Santiago yesterday. Smoching, giggling and shareing fruits with her for a last time was quite melancholy. We really had a lovely romance and not knowing if/when/how we will see back hurts.

But that’s actually not the stuff I wanna write about in this place. Apologies for my weakness, I just have nobody to share it with, here in the lonely drabness of my last days of travel. No worries, I’m quite fine, just…

Ready to go home! Needa change!