23. October 2023

I’m sick. It’s the fifth day I’m in bed now. Actually, it is the first day I’m out of bed for a while, because I feel way better than the days before. It isn’t bad, just a cold. A little bit raised temperature, weakness, coughing and sneezing. Even my brother was sick but it didn’t hit him like me. So today I want to share my thoughts about sickness. Someone told me once, that everything sticks to a plan. So, there’s no free will in anything you do, only in to turning towards god....

17. October 2023

In Switzerland I used to work as a tattoo artist as well. I am kind of a learning by doing person, so I watched many videos about tattooing and ordered all the stuff I needed to get started. I bought some fake skin and tried all the needles and stuff. It was very easy for me to needle on it but I had that feeling of having the wrong material to work on. So, I just worked on a nice design and pulled my leg out to tattoo on it. Yes, it was upside down, yes it did hurt but actually not that much...

17. October 2023

As I’m quite fine now, beating the Indian traffic with my scooty, I thought the time has come to get a motorbike for longer rides outside of Dehradun. I am used to ride geared cars, but I have a very mediocre experience on geared bikes. So I asked a friend if I could ride his bike, just to have a reminder. He was brave enough to let me ride his object of desire and it went quite good for the ride. But there’s one thing I really struggle with - it is, when you have to get out of a parking...

28. September 2023

My elder brother is visiting me. It is his first time in India and he already feels pleasantly sprinkled with the indian feeling of life. After a long journey, he was tired but simply thrilled by the surroundings, the smells, the people and my flat. He slept wonderfully and set off for a run early in the morning. I told him to download an offline map onto his cellphone so he wouldn't get lost, or at least take my address with him. He didn't do that. Then I advised him to run only in a...

22. September 2023

It has been three weeks since I arrived in India. Whenever I stepped out of the airport in Delhi, I felt like I was coming home. Isn't it strange that you can feel more at home in a foreign country than where you come from? What could be the reason for that? It's as if my soul knows its way around here better. The resonance of the country seems more in tune with mine. And although most of it is foreign, it seems to be more about things from long ago that I have only forgotten. My patience is...

11. September 2023

My name is Simone. I come from Switzerland. I was born in Kenya, where I spent the first four years of my life. Perhaps it is because of this that I have felt a wanderlust for hot vibrant countries all my life. The first time I visited India, I was 20 years old. I accompanied my school friend Sanjiv, who like me was studying fashion design in Paris. My trip ended after five weeks because I wanted to go home after I spend a week in hospital in Mumbai. I came back in 2019, to Jaipur to be...