THE BEGINNING

Being approximately 21 year old students we are at the peak of “exploring things” and at the moment we are going through – live like you never lived before, whatever the cost – phase… and we do. One of the many episodes went like this:

A friend i had met at the gym, while training for power lifting, had the idea to go sky diving. For almost half a year the idea did not go anywhere, i kept reminding him the plan every now and then, and there, one day, a message came to me that a month later, he has ordered a jump with a group of his friends, and I’m invited too – the more there are of us, the cheaper the jump, so i bought another friend of mine with us as well (this friend always has some extra savings for an opportunity like this one).

So the next thing I know, I was up at 8 o’clock in the morning (and that’s hard when you are used to wake up at 14:00) taking the usual breakfast consisting of a liter of milk and a bun, then driving to pick up my friend, and then following the GPS to pick up 3 other, unknown at the moment people. We kind of became some sort of “parachute friends” instantly, I have noticed, that whenever you do some thing unusual, extreme, dumb or otherwise exceptional with a group of people – you instantly become friends on the next level.

So we drove to the unknown in the airport we know… all the way to it we were making jokes about how we’ll be screaming, pissing in the pans and falling faster then the fluids, dieing, and how hard it must be to light a cigarette in case some thing goes wrong and you end up without a parachute while falling.

with Metallica playing in the background we were driving half an hour in front of the other 6 crew members, whose driver did not know where to go exactly. So we got to the airport first and had some time to walk around in the sky divers club surroundings.

Lots of pretty people were camping and living in small sheds. Young people enjoying being alive, under the shadows of the trees at this hot sunny day. Someone playing Spanish guitar = flamenco style – while resting in the “chill zone” before his jump, some people walking around in underwear, pretty girls smiling as their boys are prearranging for an adrenaline rush and some girls with us – who are going to jump for the first time.