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Kick off

2019-08-31 | Rejsen, Short read | No Comments

Jeg har forladt Danmark og er landede i Moskva i går. På tirsdag stiger jeg på den transmongolske jernbane og efter cirka 8.000 kilometer med tog, står jeg med fødderne solidt plantet på den kinesiske mur.

Det er bare begyndelsen på min rejse jorden rundt.

Det er et år siden jeg sidste gang jeg trådte ind ad dørene i mit gamle firma, og køberne af mit hus underskrev købsaftalen. Beslutningen om at jeg ville starte forfra blev truffet for mere end et år siden, og jeg har ikke fortrudt et eneste øjeblik siden.

Min drøm om at rejse verden rundt er så småt ved at blive til virkelighed. Det seneste år har jeg rejst rundt i Afrika og Europa, jeg har interviewet mere end 40 mennesker, min podcast er online, jeg har set the big five og utallige andre dyr.

Jeg har set de smukkeste landskaber og rejst tusindvis af kilometer. Jeg har mødt de mest fantastiske mennesker undervejs. Jeg har ikke haft en eneste sygedag – og flere eventyr venter derude.

De næste 6 måneder bliver kufferten mit hjem inden jeg vender tilbage til Danmark sammen med foråret.

Foreløbig rejseplan er:

Rusland
Mongoliet
Kina
Japan
Taiwan
Philippinerne
Indonesien
Malaysia
Singapore
Nepal
Indien
Grækenland
Egypten
Jordan
Oman
De Forenede Arabiske Emirater

… inden jul

Dernæst skal julen og nytåret bruges i Australien, New Zealand og på Fiji før jeg vender næsen hjemad og rejser gennem Sydamerika, Mellemamerika og Caribien.

Jorden kalder 😊

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By Kirstine

Ctrl – Alt – Delete – igen

2019-08-28 | Short read | No Comments

Der har været stille på bloggen siden jeg kom hjem fra Ghana & London i juli. Jeg har brugt sommeren på at genoverveje mit projekt. Jeg dropper det ikke, slet ikke, men jeg har måtte gentænke hvordan jeg fortæller om mig selv, min rejse og mit projekt.

Der har været for meget sammenblanding mellem mig selv og min podcast. Min egen rejse med at starte forfra og træde ud af hamsterhjulet for at rejse verden rundt, har fyldt for lidt både på bloggen og på min Instagram profil. Min podcast og situationen for ikke-troende er kommet til at fylde det meste.

Så derfor adskiller jeg nu de to ting. Jeg har derfor oprettet en Instagramprofil til min podcast Babelfish (følg den endelig). Fremover vil alt vedrørende podcast findes der og på facebook. Du kan stadig finde podcast episoderne her på mit website.

Jeg har også besluttet at min blog fremover skal være på dansk fremfor på engelsk. Det giver mest mening for mig – jeg beholder dog engelsk som på min Instagram profil, fordi jeg har mange følgere fra hele verden. Min blog og egen Instagram profil vil komme til at handle om min egen rejse, genopdagelsen af mig selv og de overvejelser jeg gør mig om det gode liv, mens jeg rejser jorden rundt. Jeg har oprettet en facebook profil, hvor du kan følge mig.

Min hjemmeside er blevet opgraderet med links til artikler og foredrag. Hvis du gerne vil booke mig til et foredrag – eller kender nogen, som kunne være interesseret i at book mig, så tag kontakt. Jeg har tid fra marts 2020.

Jeg håber du kan lide den nye tilgang til det jeg laver 😊

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By Kirstine

Happy New Year

2019-01-01 | Uganda | No Comments

University Guest House – Kampala

I said goodbye to Sofie two days ago and has checked in to the University Guest House in Kampala. I will stay here the rest of the week. Tomorrow I will interview the first humanists for the podcasts. Uganda has a thriving humanist community with many organizations for humanists and freethinkers. I look forward to meeting them all.

Looking back at 2018 it has been a crazy year with huge changes in my life – I decided to sell everything I owned (besides my tiny car), my job was moved to another country and my daughter Sofie & her boyfriend Rasmus decided to move to London, luckily it meant that I could sublet their apartment – and finally I decided to take a year off and travel around the world.

Happy New Year to everybody.

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By Kirstine

Ctrl-Alt-Delete

2018-12-01 | Denmark | 9 Comments

Trees reflected in water, Denmark

From today I don’t own anything. From today I don’t owe anything to anybody.

The new owners of my house got the keys today. Within a few weeks everything will be settled. I can then relax and continue my planning for what’s next. Looking back at the last 9 months so much has happened. My life has completely changed. Everything sort of fitted into a turnaround, a turnaround for me – a new beginning.

Nine months ago, I was working more than full time as a quality manager in a large IT company with the responsibility for compliance and ISO certification within Northern Europe. A well payed job with lots of challenges and changes, just as I like it – but I wasn’t happy anymore.

At the same time, I was considering selling my house and downsizing. My daughter moved away from home 2 years ago, so I didn’t need the space anymore. I talked to the realtor and we decided to put the house on the market. At the same time my daughter and her boyfriend decided to move to London, and I was able to sublet their small apartment down town Copenhagen.

Just before the summer holidays I was told my job would be moved to Finland. Since we were not able to find another role for me in the company in Denmark I was out of a job from the 1st of September. Due to my many years in the company I would get paid until the 1st of February.

All of this put together gave me the chance to look at my life all over again. I have worked and studied all my life. I got my first job at 13 delivering newspapers – I’ve been a nanny, a maid, a cleaner, working at a supermarket, at a newspaper, as a student’s counsellor and so on – supporting my self since I was 18 going through college and university. Also doing volunteer work most of the time since then. I have always worked, studied or done both at the same time.

I never had a gap year. Now is the time for my gap year – now I have the time, my daughter are not planning any grandchildren in the near future and my parents are in good health, this is my window of opportunity.

I have decided that I want to travel around the world and see where it leads me.

Follow my journey on this blog

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By Kirstine