4 - Autumn's coming

Finally the autumn's arrived, more precisely it's almost arrived. In these days we can admire the last summery sun and we can spend our time on the beach doing sunbathing, having a bath or just strolling along the shore while our gaze getting lost in the amazing sunset. I've already been here for more then 2 months and, as i told my housemate, i believe that i've reached a threshold that split my life here. I'm gonna explain better this concept.

 

A friend of mine, who has been in Australia for 6 months, a few weeks ago told me that when you come to the other side of the world ( but i think that what i'm gonna say could hold true for every experience which involves travel and overhaul of your daily life) at the beginning everything appears amazing 'cause it's new and has yet to be discovered. You feel like you're having a lovely holiday where the people are friendly with you (nice to you), the landscapes are exactly the same as you imagined, your english (or your "second" language) is getting better day by day and, in particular, you're very confident with yourself.

As long as you uphold live this "alternative" life in this way, the previous feelings come up from your inside, even thought you know that they're going to finish or at least to change. Effectively, after few days, few weeks or few months, the period is related to the person and his/her emotions and personality, something happen around you and inside you, nothing is like it was before.
 

Well, i think that i've reached that point, i'm in a limbo, along the line that divides the life here in two parts; the first one, as i said before, wherein the world that rolls around you is perfect and amazing, and the second one, which concerns in a completely new life, settling down in an another country, probably better than yours and, above all, a life wherein you should work to earn money in order to pay your bills, your rent and your daily life.

For sure this point is the more difficult to overcome; if you wanna ace your achievements, if your desire to make a breakthrough in a new country, completely different from your own, you must ride over (scale over) this line. I believe that i'm not so far along. Besides I think that i have to improve, to spend more time studying and speaking english, 'cause is the only way to get better and to reach an english level as good as indispensable.

Which will be my trick, my way to improve quickly? I don't know yet, but i wanna discover some methods that allow me to ace my next goal: start to think completely in english at the end of that season. Autumn is coming and it will bring with itself this resolution.

3 - 18 or 38 or..28??

This year my birthday has been different from the other b'day, above all 'cause I'm in Australia, I live in a different house and I've new friends who share this new life with. It was strange, I don't know how to explaine that, but when I woke up I didn't feel anything, like if it was a day like the others. So i went to work ( oh my wonderful job!) and strolling along the Street, throughout the city, I was listening to the music when I came across with one of my colleagues, who comes from Thailand; with his marvelous english he wished me "Happy birthday!". It's uncanny that a person who's been here for almost one year isn't able to speak a little bit of english, but that's it!

By the way, I came home not too late, thereby I had the opportunity to look for a job, at least a better one; while I was surfing on Internet, seeking a good craft which fit me and at the same time reading ephemeral things (the kind of things that you can summon up on Yahoo website, like a famous actress that get married with a brillant business man and brake up with him in less than 6 days) my housemate entered in my room prowling with a cake and a scintillating taper for my birthday. It was very nice and I really appreciated it.

That evening I invited some friend to celebrate my b'day and, for the occasion I prepared a typical italian (yep!) dish that I'd cooked the previous evening "wasting" three hours of my time but it's worth it. Even 'cause someone enforced me to prepare the bechamel sauce and the meat for the lasegne from scratch, indeed all the work took me around 3 hours.
I believe that this delicacy was appreciated by my friends and my housemates (and my boss as well).

Neverthenless, I think that my dazzling birthday's finished yet; in fact, this weekend, will be the sparkling St Patrick's day and we'll placate our thirsty drinking wine and beer as mucha as we can (we can do it, i know). It will be a great occasion to re-celebrate my b'day and mostly to enjoy all together in a fair evening, one of the last evening before the imminent arrival of the autumn.

2 - Day by day

Here I am. Just few hours ago I received a bad news about my potential work and my ascent toward the business success! I'd really hoped to find a new job as draftman but it seems that it's a little bit difficult!

Last week I felt like if something was impending, a changement, a breakthrough, somehow my daily life would be turn into a better one with a new job. Unfortunately something is effectively happened, but not in the direction that I hoped and i'd begun to believe.
Nevermind, I've still a job which allow me to survive here, to earn money and pay my rent and everything i need; foremost, as i wrote in the previous post, i should manage my english to pretend a new and more important job as engineer or similar. Even if the opportunity to work in a good company as draftperson, endorsed by a friend of my housemate, who's already worked there, was so tickleless, I should figure out the upside of the situation: i'm not unemployed, so, as far as i know, i need to keep this job.

Although the job as draftman is weared off, I'm not gonna give up and I'll continuing to look for the better. I don't think that I'll keep going to work as cleaner longer, I need more motivations and I think that I deserve something better (not offense, dear boss!); anyway, tomorrow is saturaday, it's going to waiting for me relax, peace, beach and bbq!

1 - I and myself

I'm gonna introduce myself. I'm David, 28 years old in a couple of days, I come from a little town of Italy, not very far from the much more important Venice. I've lived in Perth for almost two months and everything for me, even after this time, is still wonderful and stunning.

 

Why am I here? The explanation is highly complicated and it would take me days to go into. For this reason, I'll just summarize the entire process which I arrived here with. Since I was 19-20 years old, I've always particulary liked so much to travel and I've been trying to explore as much of the world as I can, because I think that spending money on travel is the best use of money.

I went to U.S. 3 years ago and I've already tried to get a scholarship to live there, in particular in California, my favourite American's State. I failed, even if I believe that sooner or later i'll live there or at least i'll try again with an additional effort.

 

So, last June I began to elaborate a strange plan in my mind, something that could be affordable and managable for me and for my wallet; hindsight, maybe, i should have studied more english before my departure, but now, in Australia, everything around me can supply the tools to pass the thresold from a ordinary english and a good one. I definitely overhauled my life, given that I left my friends, my family, my job and all the assurances that I had created in 27 years. I'm pretty sure that this decision I made, will afford me to change my life for the better and this experience, that I've been living since the flight landed, will be marveolus and wonderful.

 

So far, I really love Perth, the city the welcomed me and I really love Australia as well. I've completely plunged into this life, I've surely enriched my experience and my skills in this 2 months and I think that I've been enhancing and improving my english day by day, above all 'cause I've lived with two amazing aussy people (I said that not because you're reading me Louise, but because I particularly believed in what i've just written!!), who've been teaching me everyday the right way to gain confidence with my english.

 

There might be just one downside of the situation; I miss italian food and a little bit my family and my friends but..doesn't matter! I really want to live this experience till my visa will expired. So, as I said at the beggining, I've been here just for a couple of months and in my head, little by little, is taking shape a startling thought: settle down here!