After 3.5 months and at the end of the first continent of my trip I feel it's in order to take a look at the things I set out to do and what became of them. I don't mean the big things, like "Find out what I want to do with my life" but the smaller things that I decided I want to do while away.

Juggling, for example: I started juggling in Laos and was learning it - though not really with a lot of enthusiams - until my juggling balls started to leak in Cambodia and I had to throw one away and gave the other two away as a present. On Ko Phangnan I bought a new set, so I think I'm doing o.k. on this one.

Massage lessons: I didn't take any. I looked for a school on Ko Phangnan but didn't really look hard. Maybe I would have looked harder if I had someone to go to the lessons together with. But I didn't and so, well, no, didn't do this.

Take Martial Arts lessons: I didn't do anything extreme like actually going to one of those Muay Thai Camps but I did do two hours, so this is clearly a "yes".

Write short stories: I started some! I really did. The beginnings I wrote are actually pretty well done. The only problem is that I don't know how to go on after the beginning. I manage to set the scene and get all my characters there and then...they sortof only stand around and don't know what to do? They don't have a purpose, there is nothing that actually gets the story going in the way of a narrative. It seems like I'm good at descriptions but not at the actual creative-imaginative part. Well, I've not given up on this one yet and just having finished a book of short stories by Stephen King I realized that you don't have to invent the wheel again. It's perfectly acceptable to take an established idea and just give it a new twitch. So, as you can see, I'm still working on this one. Quiet hard actually.

Well, those are the only ones that come to my mind right now and all in all I think I've done quite well so far. We'll see what I'll say after I've been to OZ.