Everything started in…

 

I cannot recall an exact moment in which I decided to travel. To be on the road is a feeling which was always in me, hurted myself from time to time. My background as a born child of the GDR was not relevant in stopping me from travelling. My parents did a lot to show us some european nations (limited by fear to fly of my mother). As I started to studie I had a plan: I will finish my intermediate diploma in Rostock and right after I switch the university to study abroad. My life took a different road, a loved person dies and I could not focus on studying. I past some tests and it took me a year to catch up, to end with a pretty good Diploma of Industrial Engineering with Buisness Studies. So there I was, still in Rostock. But as soon as I could focus again my mind just thought about one topic, to be free. I had no illusion how this will look like, feel or in which direction it will change my life. But I know I want to leave rostock, a place in which I could not be how I am and a place which prvided me hard feeling everyday, the past was an everyday occurrence.

 

My plan:

• finish my studies

• leave Rostock

• become a project engineer

 

I felt good. The plan contained every longing I had. In my time as a student I moved to Berlin, I could easily end my test without seeing the classrooms. An internship prepared me for the intense time as a project engineer. Being challenged from the first second is one of the main facts your boss postulates. It made fun. the next project was outside of Berlin. My life became faster. Work and privat life were an up and down, the speed in my life was imense and I enjoyed it. Even if some incredible job offers tried to keep me in Germany, I skipped every dependencie and set up my life to the uncertanty.

First I had the vision of an around-the-world-ticket. It took hours to find a route. Finally I found one, starting point Istanbul. The last two months of work I did not work that much. In November 7, and in Dezember 6 days. The rest I spend in european cities. January 2012 was the beginning to be free. I started to travel without dependencies. Step by step I became free. No flat, no mobile contract, no…

I read a book which was placed in Montreal, Qubec -Canada. I short search in the internet and I found a very cheap flight. I just booked it. One way.

I finally had a date of departure! What a feeling, it put me in a frenzy. I could not be stopped now. Some other travels followed until I sat in a plane other the ocean. I am alone now, I am what I wanted to be, free.