Decisions

It was the beginning of december when I really started to think about going abroad. It was over an year when I was abroad last time. That time I was in Brazil drinking caipirinhas and laying in the hammock...so I started to feel again that I needed to see something else than rain and slush beneath my feet.

My good friend from Kuopio, Timo had been travelling the whole year mostly in Australia but also in Asia. He had planned to fly to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia the 3 of january 2007 so I had an idea to fly to the same direction at the same exact date. I started to riffle through webpages and tried to find the cheapest flight I could get. After spending hours in front of the computer, I managed to find a flight to KL. The flight would leave from Helsinki-Vantaa airport 3 of january early in the morning and it would arrive in Malaysia around 7am local time. The flight would go via Zürich, Switzerland where I would need to chance to a different plane. The whole traveltime would be around 24 hours before landing and the price for back and forth flight would be around 900 euros.

So it was monday, 18 of december and I was thinking about my decision. All these questions came up to my mind: Can I afford all of this? Is it seriously a good idea to go? How about school? But after a moment of thinking I managed to say to myself that you life only once. I took my Visa out of my vollet and started to pay the tickets. It was really happening:)

The result was that I had bought tickets to Kuala Lumpur and back. The departure date would be 3 of january and the arrival date 22 of January. Almost three weeks of backpacking with my friend sound awesome. This was obviously the best christmas gift I could get!