A New Life

To my English fellas,

 It’s been a while that I haven’t written on this blog, so Yes I’m in Australia now.  In fact, it’s been the case for more than 2 month, so what the hell happened to me within those 2 month. Well, well mes amis a shit loads, heaps of stuff, Pardon my English.

So basically I spent a month camping in the bush at the Australian Rainbow Gathering (see picture on the right) in the beautiful mountains with the not less beautiful Rachel who illuminates the event. For the ones that are regular of my blog, they already know what the Rainbow Gathering is and who is Rachel.

For the remaining ignorant, It does not have religious purpose, nor it is related with any sect or political organisation. It is simply a bunch of people who share the same idea about life that gathers for a month celebrating life in peace and harmony by sharing food, activities around the camp and knowledges. When a decision needs to be making, then the all community is involved. Indeed, a talking circle is called and this circle is closed only until a decision is reached based on consensus. How it works is easy, simple and yet it works perfectly well. Proof that we can live a life another way than the mainstream capitalistic society has to offer.

Anyway after this month, me and Rachel ended up hitchhiking the east cost from Sydney to Brisbane, living up the Aussie Dream. Goood’ay Mate! I reckon this part of Australia, especially around Byron is pretty unique and special, although a bit crowded with backpackers and pseudo surfers. What amazed me the most about this country is of course its immensity, the huge land dry and flat once upon a time dominated by aboriginal community... From this land has emerged an amazing wild life offering a multitude of different species like billion of bugs and thousands of birds, snakes, kangaroo, spider etc.

 Life is everywhere but maybe the most curious creature of all is the Australian himself. Godd’ay mate! Worst than the kiwi the aussie like to call everyone(including their own mother) mate ! They are very open minded, curious about foreigners, a bit confused about their identity as Australian citizen.

                    Mouloulaby beach

So yeah we ended up travelling around Byron Bay, Mullumbiby, Uki where we had some friends from the rainbow. Then Brisbane where we met Carla, rainbow sista as well. In the meantime Rachel had to go back to NZ to finish up her WHV. Sad but true... I misse her a lot but we are more connected than ever even thousands of kilometers away from each other. Growing a new life together...

  Me and Rachel, painted face at the Rainbow

 I had to get back to a more individual life style and took part of a 3 dayscourse vipassana to get myself together. Purifying my mind and advancing on the long path of self realization and ego detachment, those kind of things...

French entry soon. Plus check out new album Australia on the right side of the site.

Ta

CU