I am sitting at the airport in Melbourne with a slight hangover from our last night on Brunswick street and am thinking about the next six weeks. Tonight after a ten hour flight I will be arriving in Bangkok where I am going to stay a couple of days just to prepare the next adenture: a ten day meditation retreat in a buddhist monastery. Yes, me, Theresa, Ms. 'I can't even stop talking for 10 min otherwise I am going to explode', will sit silently meditating for over a week. I feel that it will do me some good to shut up and relax, reflect and calm down a bit. I hope that I can find a silent mind and learn how to get to a state of mind even in normal life afterwards. I don't know when I first thought about that but I am trying to listen to my intuition and instincts even if it means to sometimes do something untypical or unexpected. And as if I asked for it, the last couple of days, I am getting a lot of encouraging signs that this a the right thing to do: for instance Lee, an Asian co-traveller tells me that meditation is the way for me to find what I want and that just after 5 min of talking to him without him knowing that I want to do this.

So I really start thinking: if something is good for you than it will happen, if it is not, it will not happen. You can't force things, maybe it is meant to happen, or maybe not...anyway it will be good for you. That doesn't mean, that you cannot influence your future, of course you can, you even have to, but it means, there are no wrong decicions. Whatever you decide, will be the right thing for you at that exact moment. Just follow the signs.

So even if I go to this monastery and it doesn't work out, at least I will know, that I wasn't ready for that.

But back to the past: Melbourne was really nice, probably it is the most European city in Australia with hundreds of small, cute Cafés, local shops and bars. We spent nearly all the week in Fitzroy having one mokka after the other and filling our bellies with Sushi rolls, which is the cheapest food you'll find around Australia.

It felt weird and I was so sad to say goodbye to Lena yesterday, who knows when I will see her again, and Esther, after having spent so much time together. But I am happy that Lena made it to Australia before going to the USA and that we could catch up.

Now I am really curious about Asia and I am so looking forward to the real Thai food!!!