This girl have been traveling around Europe and Asia, im sure that one day she'll make it to Australia, Africa and America. She's really adventurous like a scout child! i wonder how she was at the elementary school...
Ok, lets make this shorter, Jana was one the good friend i meet during my year in China, Guangzhou. She was always planning something, it didn't matter if there were school days or holidays she was always up to something. The Tibet plan was her idea, and i start to like it when one of my Chinese teacher showed to the classroom picture of the places he had been in China, one of his favorite place was Tibet, the picture and his speech amazed me. After that i started make my own research about Tibet in www.baidu.com (is the chinese google).
Diana is also a really good from GZ, she's an Italian born Chinese (IBC) and one of her dreams was travel to TIBET! the day she told me that, i started to convince myself, but my economic situation was bad, i was just a normal foreign student who's 80% of the financial support was from 3 hard working years. I was really sad, when my friends started to plan the whole travel, it was hard for me.
Thanks to GOD, i got a job before the whole travel thing and the end of the semester. i was a translator then.
But then my instinct started to betray me, at the beginning of the semester i join a Chinese instrument Class and i was really into it, that much that i wanted to get the instrument and sent back to Panama, so i can keep playing the chinese melodies, but it was sooo.. expensive to get a god one for beginner. so i was between the travel or the instrument, it was a hard desicion, but then i was just thinking, travel to tibet with 5 really good friends from school would be better now, so i choose Tibet, 3 days before my friends make the reservation i told them to include me. I WAS SO HAPPY! you cannot imagine!
But then, something terrible happened... everyone's knows that Tibet and China never have had good relationship, our travel agent tried to get the pass for us to Tibet, but it didn't work, im not sure about what happened at the time, but i really wanted to kill someone! NO TRAVEL TO TIBET, WHAT? and the holidays was in two weeks and there was a month left for me to stay in CHINA! NOooooo...
I didn't wanted to cry, i wanted to fight with my Tae kwondo coach, Nasser. He is black belt in everything and i just got the yellow one. and what about the others? same same... so we had time problems. we had to change our whole plan, planning something in 2 week with all our problems (sending the stuff, books and clothes back home). Well, i was so confused. I could had keep working getting more chin chin.. or do nothing, why because Most of the places in Asia is kind of restricted for Panamenian, Yes we need a visa for almost everywhere.....
Jana has this wonderful idea, traveling to Malaysia and Singapore and maybe Indonesia, but there where not time for me if i wanted to get a visa for an country in Asia, sometimes takes 1 weeks and it depend... I was about to give up... Then i found out that Panamenian doesnt need a visa for malaysia and Singapore, so a said YES!
