Home for now

As you can read in one of my posts from the beginning of March 09, I am currently - yes, I still dread to say it and it feels werid - unemployed. I started this journey out of a mixture of sicknesss of Vienna, desire to discover new countries, frustration and boredom. Although the last month was great and I didn't have any regrets about my decision to leave Austria for a second, I noticed that I was having troubles to really just relax and enjoy the ride, but that I constantly was worrying about what will come after this trip. So when offered the opportunity, I took the chance to do something productive and applied/signed up for a development traineeship in Malaysia through AIESEC. I guess if I have had any permanent job secured for after my travels or if I hadn't spent the most part of the last months with sitting around in Vienna waiting for applicaiton results, my choice would have been a different one and I'd just continue my trip. But with things being as they are, this seemed as the best option at this moment.

Petronas towers in KL

There I was in the bus on my way down to Kuala Lumpur where my next adventure was waiting for me. I have to admit that while hopping from one place to the next is fun, I am in general more a fan of discovering a city more thouroughly by living in that place for a while. This offers you the chance to build a connection with a town, figure out your favorite spots, discover streets apart from the main sights and develop a routine. I guess it's because of this that to this day I remember London and Boston as my favorite cities from all the places I visited and would at any moment consider relocating there as I could definetely imagine calling those spots "home" - even if it would just be for a while.

So my next interim home will be KL and I'm looking forward to getting to know it. Usually the first months in a new city are a bit of an emotional rollercoaster - at least for me, as I experience altering feelings of happiness and excitement and also loneliness and disappointment till I built up my routine and social envrionment. My arrival in KL was quite pleasent as I was picked up by local Aiesecers and got a ride to the internhouse were I'll be staying for the next to months. The house is located in Subang Jaya, a bit out of KL, but I already discovered the way to get into the city by public transport and it's quite easy. The house is ok-ish, quite basic, but more or less clean and after a day spent scrubbing and mopping it reached a level of comfort I can live with. For now I have my own room and share the house with two other AIESEC interns from South-Korea with whom I get along really well so far.

the internhouse

The only downside of my first days in KL (although geographically incorrect, as I live in Selangor to be excact, I'll continue to refer to my current location as KL, because it's easier and it's shorter and it just sounds better) was the fact that I was not in the best of health. After surviving the last month without any problems and eating mainly food from the street - well not literally, but stuff I bought at stalls on the street - I finally was taken down by some food that was apparently not totally fresh - and I already have a suspect ... - and spent most of my first two days with sleeping and frequent trips to the bathroom. However, I quickly recovered and everything is fine again and I'll continue to eat food from the streets but will refrain from anything that looks even the tiniest bit suspicious.

no need to worry here - very delicisous

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