“What was the saddest day of your life?”
“The day I went back to Colombia and realized my traveling had changed me too much to ever fit back in again.”

When I asked her if I could take her photograph she agreed. Every shot I took she somehow looked away or tried to hide her face from me. I asked her if she felt uncomfortable in front of the camera, she answered: “I have been modeling in the past for quite a while. Being photographed reminds me of the fashion world. I’ve seen it up close and believe me it isn’t pretty. But your blog probably has nothing to do with that so I’ll try my best.”

“Eight months ago we met in this horrible club called ‘The purple turtle’. She seemed to be the only interesting person around. We talked for hours about all kinds of subjects such as art, philosophy and the Latin language. One week later we spontaneously took off for Paris and one month after that she moved in with me on my boathouse. We have been inseparable ever since. A few months ago I came up with the idea to propose to her. We go to the same university so I thought it would be cool to propose to her through our university magazine. I wrote an entire article and send it to the editorial office. Unfortunately they refused to take it serious. After that I tried to propose to her several times but every time something went wrong. It took me a few weeks and 5 proposals before she got the message. Lucky for me everything worked out and now we are on our honeymoon. We are only 19 and 20 years old but I think the fact that we are both a bit crazy makes us work.”

“You’re not the first one to take my picture but at least you asked for my permission.”
“Why is that?”
“Maybe because I always have my book on hand so I can read inbetween walking back and forth from the post depot. And probably also because of the huge sunglasses I usually wear which are bright orange and match with the color of my delivery car.”
“How do you manage to read while delivering mail?”
“I’m a book addict so I constantly read no matter what I’m doing. Sometimes I read while riding my bike or even roller blading. Allthough I have to admit that roller blading is indeed a bit tricky. One time I got pulled over by the police. Since there is no law forbidding rollerblading and reading at the same time there was not much they could do so they send me off with a warning.”

“You better not post this photo on some pornography website”