WEEK 3

Thursday

13th Dec

This day is called Saint Lucy and it was a holiday, so I woke up at 11.30 am and took directly a shower.
When I finished I was on my way to the living room and caught Julian in his bathroom while he had nosebleeding. It looked a bit like in a criminal there, blood on the floor and so on. Scary.

After that I went outside for my morning routine, read a few sites out of my book in english, bought a coffee and went back home. There I started to clean the flat and cook some food and ate it right after.

My parents asked me if I want to talk to them, so we started a live videochat. We were talking about family stuff, about how I feel here, what I do (they can't read this Blog due to their english), etc. We ended the conversation after round about 40 minutes.

Then I started to read out of one of my books for an hour or so. Because I felt a little bit underutilized and somehow tired, I drank a coffee and went jogging while listening to my audiobook. That helped me to feel better. When I came home I watched some videos, read some articles, meditated and went to bed.

Friday

14th Dec

This day was really fun, be curious!

I woke up and did my morning routine like everyday. I went to work and heard to an audiobook but made a stop at lidl, because it's easier for me to buy stuff there, rather than make it by myself at home.

My work finished at 6 p.m. and I got driven at home. So I cooked and ate something very fast to go to the training. I was late so it started already when I arrived, but it was ok. This time I trained with another German and he wasn't very good in kicking softly, so we both ended up in absolute pain in our legs :D. It really wasn't a good training though.

But we have a really really good coach there. He is totally sympathetic and can explain very good. I asked myself how his life went and how he came into this position as a teacher. I also wanted to know if it was always so easy for him to talk in front of big groups.
It came out that he started with Thaiboxing when he was 25 years old and also that he was enormously insecure when he was younger. He got bullied allot and had strong anxieties. But he went on. At his first day as coach he was  shaking at his whole body and was strongly nervous, but he never gave up. He always believed in himself, or at least he tried it always. And now, after 20 years of training and faith, he came to a point, at which he's able to teach groups really good.
In my opinion that's beautiful.

When I came home, Julian wrote me that he's out with his colleagues, so I prepared myself, drunk a beer and a coffee and went to them.

Unfortunately there was only one colleague left so it was just him, Julian and me, but it was fine. I empathized unbelievably good with him because we had a quite similar view on the world. I saw myself in him, just 10 years older.
After two hours or so we decided to go to the so called "party destrict". Ok, it's not called like that, I just forgot the name but it was an area full of clubs, casinos, etc.

We drunk some beers, around 3 or 4, and were sitting in different bars. In one of them I danced a little bit even when I was the only person in this bar that was dancing. Julian and his colleague laughed at me, but I had fun so I didn't care :)
After that we went outside and passed a Sexclub. My mate Julian couldn't withstand the charme of these girls, and got basically just dragged inside.
I went inside too, tried to search him, but I didn't find him. I got kicked out many times because I said I won't pay for anything and the girls aren't really attractive to me, but I convinced them every time that I can go back inside.
The last time I went inside I had really deep conversations with two women, about how they came into this situation of selling their body and how much they like their job, respectively how they cope with rejection.
After over one hour of talking I realized, that I was in there because of Julian! I went outside and tried to find him, tried to call him, but his battery was empty, no chance! His colleague disappeared too, fuck! At this time it was like 1:30 am.

I didn't want to end the night, so I just decided to go into several clubs, and were basically just dancing and talking to people until 5 am. Then I ordered a taxi, drove home and went to bed.

That was an awesome day!

Saturday

15th Dec

I slept from 6:00 - 13:00 and didn't do my morning routine, didn't meditate, etc.
I had a little hangover but it was ok, I didn't drink very much last night, maybe like 9 beers from 22:00 - 05:00.

The first time in the history of us three being flatmates, we went to Lidl all together and spend 90 Euro for food and so on. It was a little exhausting to walk this 20 min long way with so heavy bags!

Some days ago I started a cognitive training in the internet called NeuroNation. I read once a book about neuroplasticity and how the brain is able to restructure itself by doing all kind of tasks. Scientists also found out that if you get better in one particular field, your overall skills in this area of brainfunctioning increases too! For example, if you start to juggle with balls, you don't just get better in this task, but also in all other things that need three dimensional thinking, because your brain created better working neurons in that area of your brain, that can also be used for other things, not just juggling in this example.
I've wanted to start this cognitive training some time ago, but I was always too lazy and didn't really believe in its effects.
But since I'm here in Malta, I have enough time to find that out by my own!

The last 4 hours of the day I was reading articles in the internet about different things, watched videos, went jogging and then to bed.

Sunday

16th Dec

I slept like 10 hours and woke up at 10:30 am.
When I take a shower I'm always showering in hot/cold intervals and always start with the hot one. This time I tried it in the different way and guys.. that is really no fun. It's hard enough to shower cold but if you even start with cold instead of hot, than it's really damn cold! But I survived it and felt much better after that!

Right after I ate cereals and went outside to do my morning routine. I was meditating on the grass/meadow, until I heard a child saying "Hey look, there's a sleepy guy! Just look! Look there! A sleepy guy". After some seconds of silence they started to throw small woodsticks at me. Why? Haha that was really funny. Directly after that their dad or so came and sent them away.

After one hour I went back home, did the NeuroNation training and wrote at my blog. Then Julian wanted to go outside, he almost pushed me, I didn't stand a chance. We walked around, went to the park, went into a restaurant.. ok it was just KFC, but restaurant sounds better - then we went home.

We don't have any electricity again, so we need to take care about our batterys. Tomorrow I'll call the electrician. Because I wanted to drink coffee, I went to a neighbor and asked if they have some hot water. He gave me, we talked a little bit. He said he lives there with 3 other women. I don't understand how they live here in this house without being noticed by me, I never saw someone here.. strange.

The last hours of the day I went jogging, read articles online, went jogging again after 2 hours, showered, read a little bit and went to bed :)