This is about the journey, not the destination. Or so I tell myself as I walk upwind on the beach for the hundredth time. Despite every subliminal or conscious message we are told since birth, endeavors are not to be measured by their success on a scale of one to ten. Actually, our days shouldn't be measured at all. So yesterday, day 3 of kitesurfing, I stood up 3 times, swallowed 10 times the daily requirements of salt and managed not to lose my sunglasses i...

Kiting isn't nearly as hard or as terrifying as I thought. We had docked the boat at another island, deserted this time, little more than a sand bar with a few palm trees. The boat, with its shallow hull, allowed us to get close to the beach to unload the kite equipment. Thanks to a few YouTube videos and Chris' explanation, I set up the kite myself and the whole thing no longer seems like an obscure ritual, available only to some few insiders. But no amount o...

Okay, this place is f***ing paradise, you'll have to pardon my language. Right now, I'm having a late breakfest of huevos rancheros (egg and salsa) with refried beans and bacon, sipping a cantaloupe and banana smoothie. I had woken up early, grabbed a plate of fruits and a smoothie, before heading to yoga. To get there, you need to take the sky trail and head upward. Before long, you reach a covered platform up above the trees and overlooking the ocean. Zen mu...

The rhythm here is different. For instance, lunch starts at the cafeteria that serves great food, for cafeteria standards at least, complete with îles flottantes, then goes on to a staff room equipped with an old expresso machine and baby foot table, free of charge. They talk and play iPhone games and virtually do nothing for an hour. Those are resident surgeons we are talking about, the ones tha in Quebec take ten minutes to eat on the corner of a table. ...

It's nearly midnight and I should be sleeping. But yay! I have internet. It's not actually easy to find an electronics store selling slightly obscure USB to ethernet apple connectors when your first reflex is to go on the internet to find one. I whould want to say everything is going fine but it sounds so very cliche. This is the view I get when I take the tram at 7:30 in the morning, not so bad I should think. I succeeded in finding out that my internship...