Changes

Hello my friends,

First of all, I hope you haven't stopped at coming to my website. I don't blame if you have, since there hasn't been any updates lately. I'm really sorry about that! Anyway, I'm still alive and going strong, I guess that's the most important thing, right? ;)

As I'm writing this, I'm at my very good friend's place in Rabat. Layla, I'm so happy to be here with you!! :) Layla has also studied in the university of Joensuu, but I didn't know each other before I went to France where she was spending a year as an exchange student as well. Yeah, world is small: I have to travel all the way to another country to get to know someone who has studied all the time in the same university in Finland. So, in France we became good friends and the next year we continued studies in Finland. Sadly, our ways got separated last year when Layla left Finland to finish her studies somewhere else. However, now we are reunited again since Layla has returned to Morocco for her holidays and I came see her at her home. In life, we often walk a long way along the same path but at some point our ways get separated as we chose different directions. But at the moment of every good-bye, why couldn't we save our tears and think about the next crossroad where our paths get reunited again, may it only for a moment.

Changes, there has been a lot of them in my life lately, which have taken me time and energy. Well, I guess most of you will heard about them from me later on, but let's just say that I've been thinking about my future a lot lately, especially concentrating on things that I want from my life. Letting go of the past and choosing new ways can be very hard. After all, how can we ever be sure, which way would be the best for us. In life, you just sometimes have to take risks and see where a new direction may take you. Sometimes you may regret and wish that you could go all the way back. Often, it's not possible, there is no coming back. But what there is to regret in directions that you took yourself and which course you can always change, often in a way that makes you only look back, smile and continue where you were heading, knowing that this direction is better for you.

There have been some other changes as well: I have moved with Laura into another apartement. We were having so many problems with the guardian who didn't want to let our friends enter the building. It was really frustrating to pay the rent and not having the liberty to do things. Well, of course we understand that things in this culture are different: normally men are not allowed to come to visit women and vice versa. There are some residence where this rule is very strictly applied, which was the thing in our case, but in some places there are no guardians at front door. Well, anyway, finally things got pretty tense as we got into a huge fight with the syndique (the chief of the residence, or whatever). I'm telling you, this women is crazy in her mind as she was shouting at us and saying things that were not at all approriate. So, we couldn't put up the situation anymore and we packed our things and found a new apartement the next day. It's also next to the beach and we have a great views from the windows. The apartement is smaller than the former one but we don't need so much space anymore as there's not so much time left. On the contrary, it has a really big living room, which is very nicely furnished with a mix of ancient and new style. And, also, we are allowed to invite our friends over, so the prison time is over now!

Here I am, continuing the path of my life. May it sometimes take me to bumpy roads and wish me to go back, at least I can be sure that walked it MY way.