Hi!
My name is Simona and I am a 28-years-old Italian girl, lucky enough to have already travelled 4 continents of the world and have visited more Countries of the numbers of years constituting my age.
However, travelling for me has been just a part of life for more or less 25 years, something enjoyable for sure, but just something that you do.. I have never dedicated too much of attention to it…
Then, suddenly, the opportunity that I was waiting…or maybe the opportunity that was waiting for me, not very sure which is which…
In 2008, my company gave me the opportunity to visit Malaysia and Singapore…finally, I was landing my feet on Asian ground!
That huge, majestic and mystic continent I have ever dreamt of and never visited, was reachable for me.
And the encounter has been like an electric shock, one of those kind of events that will change your life forever.
Probably now you are thinking that my very first 2 weeks there have been full of marvelous, nice experiences…And you couldn’t be more wrong…
Asia is hard, man… Especially for a Westerner young girl all alone on the other side of the world, so much used to her culture (yes, true, I travelled much even before that but as I said, I always had just vacations in nice resorts where a dish of pasta and a cocktail beside the pool is always available); so much used to her environment, to her way of thinking…
I don’t know why this happened but I still remember the sensation of that very first day, when the taxi was driving me from Singapore Changi airport to my hotel in Orchard Road in morning peak hours. I still remember what was going on in my mind, seeing the workers sitting at the back of the lorries…the most normal way to reach your working place in South-East Asia.
I was wondering: ‘Why the hell am I sitting here in the air-con of the taxi, instead that sitting there, at the back of the lorry, with my hair in the wind?’
And this is how I fell in love with Asia…it was love at the very first sight….
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| Thanks Wonderful Friends, for having made me really feel on my own skin the sensation which made me fall in love with Asia |
