Our Targets

This trip is basically for our self-knowledge. We are doing this trip not just for one experience more, not only for see all this natural paradises, we don´t aim to finish our trip, or do it in one determinate date. We are looking for one specific personal goal. I don´t know If for Joan is the same, but I am looking just for peace inside me. For be calm before put all my energy, all my soul in one of my personal projects for this will became my new way of live.

We are aiming points such a:

- Balance and elasticity: We will do yoga every morning before start our journeys.
- Strength: Just doing our trip will improve that point, and we will do some games for improve our strength just doing healthy competitions ( fell free to do some requests!).
- Self-knowledge: You improve this just travelling by opening your mind, but also we will write some reflections about what we can do for change our world and avoid the things make us sad in this society. Write about our way mixing with our beginnings and our global view of the life.
- Survival skills: This we will improve by beat the fears who our society put really inside in your soul, and we want to find our limits with sensibly "seny", and extrapolate in future experiences for make it more easy.

Our projects:

- Blog: We don´t know how much time we will have for update meanwhile we will doing our trip, but we promise  to do it as regularly as we can. This Blog is our main project.
- Dropbox: We will create a dropbox and update with the pictures we cannot put in the blog.
- Youtube channel: This is a personal project i really want to put my best on it. Consist in record the most spectacular parts of the trip, or when we climb some big mountain, record them with one sport camera in HD, record them without talking at all, and in this way you can feel like you are climbing that mountain, and much more if you buy the google glasses you would feel as virtual reality. The aim of this project is help people who are paraplegic, injured or just cannot do this anymore for their self to have a much real experience we can give to them.
- Webpage: We need help of how to do one good website, but when we find somebody can help us, we want to start our financial resources for keep travelling and helping as much we can. We want do create a web where you can help us with money and we, as a regard, we will do the joke, or pass the test do you suggest. I mean, we will have a list of funny jokes, different test for pass or whatever you can suggest to us. We are not shy at all, and if it is respectful and we can do, we will and we will record with the sports camera and share on our youtube channel.

I am very exited about all this new projects we will start, or maybe we will start later. But i repeat, the first aim on this trip is our personal self-knowledge, and we will spend as much time as we need first on this.
We had been preparing ourselfs very hard for that trip, in not one things just thought and wanted to do without thinking. I stopped smoking for 9 months and preparing physically doing bike, running, trekking on mountains, and swimming. We also have information about the local plants and animals in New Zealand, and we will go 3 weeks up to 2 months before start our trip to live with the locals and learn more things about the land. I will explain better in the  new post :)

Personal note (Albert)
I want to apologize to all my family and and friends, because i left them without give to them to much feedback, or news on my new trip in live. I just want all of us I will do this feedback, but just i need some more time, i am in fixing my old scars on my old life, and was being more hard than i thought, but i am improving myself much more than i could imagine. I want to say thank you of all of you for make me the man i am today, and thank you and the love i could and still can fell in every day  on my life.BTW, i am doing my autobiography (in English sorry!) because i consider i already lived one enter life, and i will share this to you is this blog when it will be ready, not so far i promise!

Kisses, hugs and love for everyone!

Before the beginning - The Story of the homeless with home PART 1

The Story of the homeless with home

 

This is the story of how I become a homeless just for one day and how with this experience I found a home for my heart.

One of the points to start my story could be my hangover. Last night was Wednesday night. This means in Perth, and for the students or backpackers, party night. It what happened that night. I party hard in another legendary night on Mustang bar and, as always, the day after became completely unproductive. I spend all the day at home trying hard just to survive. When my mind was completely awake again, the sunset appears on the sky.

I need to do something for save my day, I recon to myself. I started to send some messages to my friends trying to convince someone to have a cheap and quick dinner in the centre. All that effort didn’t had any regard and I decided to enjoy myself alone in the real world just for a while in this day.

I had an amazing dinner in Taka, a cheap busy Japanese restaurant in the CBD. After this moment of culinary happiness, I went to relax and enjoy myself in front of the library of Western Australia (WA). There is a big screen in this square, and every day there putts interesting documentaries or short alternative movies.

That day I founded something else there, one peaceful and happy Korean homeless. He came near me and asked very politely if I don’t mind if he could seat next to me in the stairs. Of course I said I didn’t mind, but inside my mind I just could think: “Shit, again this uncomfortable situation where he would ask me some money and I would say no even I have some, and I will feel guilty for that”. Nothing farther than the reality. He never asked for some money, instead of this he proudly just show me his busking carton asking for help in 20 different languages and typographies. We started a short talk about our origins and own stories. He told me he had been travelling around Australia backpacking and with hitchhiking. The Korean guy also told me he couldn’t find any job in Perth during one month of searching and for this reason he was asking for money in the street. We keep talking about the life, about how this society stresses to much all the people and trying to fix somehow this world.

Suddenly, one aboriginal woman comes to us so ruddily asking   for some dollars. My new Korean friend said that he have some coins and open his old bag with all their live inside, took one plastic bag with some coins an pick some for the aboriginal woman. One wave of extremely kindness enters inside my heart at see this situation. I felt myself like a shit person. I was thinking of how this aboriginal woman could do something bad to us, and he just wanted to help her and know more about their live. I was ashamed. That woman left and we keep talking about the life and reflections in general.

I started to roll a cigarette and offered another to him. He refused because he had some tobacco in his pocket. Again this feeling as a shit inside myself. I don’t have too much things right now too, I thought. If he refuses my tobacco maybe is because he doesn’t need always the help of everyone and this shit feeling inside myself it’s just mine, because he didn’t want help.

After a while of talking about how much freedom you can feel without anything material, and how many real people you can knew travelling and in the streets, I asked him if I could take a few beers with him and sleep with him on the street this night.

Lloyd, my new homeless friend, started to be very excited and happy about my offer. He told me that we was doing busking with another two Japanese homeless more and we could meet all together for take some beers and go to sleep on the beach.

After a quiet and silence  time enjoying this idea and watching one documentary about the earth planet on the big screen, one of the Japanese homeless, Taku, arrived there. Before Taku comes, Lloyd told me that Taku was been living by his own in the Amazons for two months. He built one small boat with some trees and had fun with this in the Amazon River.

I felt very small for all their stories and incredible experiences, but at same time proud of myself for choose share this night with such amazing guys, lucky me for this.

We had a chat for a little bit more meanwhile we were planning our “homeless party”. Taku recon he really need a beer after his long and hard day in the street, and Lloyd asked Taku were they can took a shower.

Again this shit feeling inside me. I wanted to offer them my home for take a shower, but I am shearing a house, and my housemates maybe will not like the idea to take two homeless guys to sleep and have a shower there. But I needed to offer them some help, and I offered to them come tomorrow morning to my home and take a shower there.

-          “No way!” They answered at same time.

-          “We prefer take a shower with the sunrise in the beach rather than in a house, but thanks for your offer.” Lloys said.

Feeling like an asshole again. For my fears and this false felling of superiority for have something more, when they were enjoying much more without having nothing.

-          “Ok , if you want to be happy and enjoy the life is not my problem.” I answered with one big smile in my face, and all of us started to laugh a lot.

We couldn’t wait more our other Japanese friend because the bottle shop was going to close soon, so we decided to go there for some beers to spend a good party night. In the way to the bottle shop, Taku asked how many money  they did on the street this day, and Lloyd said to him was really good day and they made more than $60 for sure. They started to think how many beers we can buy, and how much will cost the tickets for the bus to the beach, and if we have some more money left for a breakfast tomorrow morning.

Was enough for me, I couldn’t let them pay for all this things for me having money in my pocket.

-“That’s alright mates; I can pay my beers and the ticket for the bus.” I said with a kind voice.

- “No way! We cannot spend any of our money these days we are on the street, Lloyd didn’t tell you this? Answered Taku straightaway.

-“Oh, no sorry. I lied to you before, we are not real homeless.” Said Lloyd and both started to laugh.

I didn’t understand anything about what was happening there and in the expression of my face appears one big WTF??? Lloyd continue explaining that they have a home and just went two days to the street for a personal experience and understanding about the homeless live and his troubles with the society. Lloyd had to invent this story of he was looking for a job for one month and he is homeless now because all the people asked to him how he arrive at this situation or asking for another personal circumstances and details and it force him to lie for make his experience as much real as he could arrive.

I was shocked, dumbfounded, they were doing same as I decided to do this night but for two nights. We couldn’t believe that the destiny join us and we just been laughing about this the rest of the way to the bottle shop.

We arrived to the bottle shop, took some beers, stopped to the 24 hours shop to buy a shampoo for our future morning shower, take some cartons from the rubbish bean to make our beds, and return to the library square to join the other Japanese homeless friend, Shun.

 

Before the beginning - Our Story

We are Joan and Albert from Girona and Olot (Catalonia). We live very close in Catalonia but we didn't know each other until met here in Perth, Western Australia. 

I organised with one friend a human chain for the independence of Catalonia here in Perth and there is where I met Joan. We connect immediately because we live in the same region and have a lot in common. When I saw him for the first time, I thought: "such a crazy guy from the mountains, have to be a good guy." And I was right, he is such a funny crazy man. He explains to me that he was been travelling  around south-east of Asia, living with the locals, living in virgin islands and more amazing stories. His next destination will be to do a path-walk one month on New Zealand and he ask me if I want to join in that adventure. 

I was not sure, sounds perfect, but i just came from the Gold Coast to Perth for try find one sponsorship as a chef for stay here longer in Australia and make some money. And I founded one place who wants to give me the sponsorship, but if I accepted this i needed to stay on the same place about 4 years for apply to the Australian permanent residence, witch is the goal of all this visa process. I had no energy for this, and I look for some trip in New Zealand and i found Te Araroa. One new path-walk crossing north and south islands on New Zealand, more than 3000 km , 18 pics or more than 3000 mtrs, 4 months walking. The adventure of my life in front of my screen, and my heart took the decision, let's go to New Zealand!

I told to Joan and we love the idea straight away. We start to thing millions of possibilities for do within this trip, and still thinking in lots more. We will do a list of jokes to do within our trip and record these with our new Go(Hong)PRO (fell free to give us some ideas about the jokes!) Also we want to do our blog and one YouTube channel for upload the best part of our path walk (we will working on it, not our best the new technologies hahaha)

 

We will try to be this update as much as we can, but if there is not any news for a few days, let's check again because the next news will be amazing! Thanks for read our experencies, and I hope you would enjoy same as us writing this few letters for our friends.

 

Hugs and smilies for everyone of us! See you soon !

 

Albert