I glance at the landscape in front of me and I leave my eyes wandering through the sunny and clear sky which characterizes this day in Gatton. I can see a thick veil of clouds on the horizon and I breath the air of which you can feel the warmth on my skin. Nearly 4 weeks have passed since I've been here and some things have changed, others seems are going to change, some others are still stuck and, apparently, they're not going to modify at all.
First of all, Internet has finally arrived in my house. After 3 weeks of strange promises, excuses, technical problems and postponements, yesterday the tenant of the sharehouse, where I'm living, came around with a modem and set the connection with the provider. Now we can use skype, check the email and do all the operations that without internet are so difficult to complete (book a hostel, check your bank account etc..).
Second, my two english housemates left at the end of last week; it means that now I'm living with other 3 italians and I should say that is not a good news for my english improvement, above all in order to get the Ielts certification at the end of this period, in Gatton. Even before, when I was with them, because of their age and also because I wasn't at home often, I didn't have the opportunity to talk with them about interesting and difficult topic a part the life in Australia and the motivations that push them to come overseas, in an other continent. In any case, having two english housemates was a good excuse to not speak italian all the time; that is the situation which i'm leaving after they left.
At the beginning I tried to speak in english even with my italian housemates but I gave up after a few sec. Why? The reasons are easy to explain. The english's level of some of them is really low; I'm conscious that mine is not very high, but I reckon that it's good, I'm understable, I can understand most of the native speakers (at least the sense of the speaking if I cannot get all the worlds said in a discussion). If it would be just me and another italian the situation would be different 'cause it'd mean that most of the people in the house are not italian; so it'd be easier to speak english, out for respect towards other people. But in the actual contest, there are four people under the same roof; how could we expect to speak another language different from italian?? Finally, and I know that it's so sad to say, a lot of time we come back home from work really tired and exhausted and it's become natural to speak in italian for laziness.
Anyway, initially I was talking about the things that are changing or that are not. Well, fortunately, I think something is going to change in my daily work, particularly in regard to the opportunity to get an hourly paid job instead of the other jobs which are paid relating to the fact that you are fast or not (salary based on the number of bin/boxes harvested). But in this moment I feel I should just bring out this potential event that could happen, a new job, but I don't want to delve into the discussion, I want to be superstitious!
By the way, as I said before, I'm still living with other italian guys and my english is getting worse. Maybe. Sincerely, I believe that my level is not worse or better then the one that I had when I was in Perth. The main problem is that I lost some of my confidence, every day I need a sort of "warm up" before speaking relaxed and be comfortable with my english. I also think that I found the solutions of the problem: my ex housemate and the new job represent the way to keep going with my improvement, in addition to continue to write this blog and watch movies and serial in english. In the new potential job all the pepole who work are australian, so I'd speak english all day; why my housemate? Because she's my teacher, I can really learn with her (and she can learn italian with me, is a good deal!) given that when I was in Perth we had hell of a lot of interesting discussion and talking about different topics which allow me to test my english and work out of it trying to use as much word I could. I hope to set a sort of weekly appointment(s) in order to speak english more and more and start again to be involved in my english absorption!
Second, my two english housemates left at the end of last week; it means that now I'm living with other 3 italians and I should say that is not a good news for my english improvement, above all in order to get the Ielts certification at the end of this period, in Gatton. Even before, when I was with them, because of their age and also because I wasn't at home often, I didn't have the opportunity to talk with them about interesting and difficult topic a part the life in Australia and the motivations that push them to come overseas, in an other continent. In any case, having two english housemates was a good excuse to not speak italian all the time; that is the situation which i'm leaving after they left.
At the beginning I tried to speak in english even with my italian housemates but I gave up after a few sec. Why? The reasons are easy to explain. The english's level of some of them is really low; I'm conscious that mine is not very high, but I reckon that it's good, I'm understable, I can understand most of the native speakers (at least the sense of the speaking if I cannot get all the worlds said in a discussion). If it would be just me and another italian the situation would be different 'cause it'd mean that most of the people in the house are not italian; so it'd be easier to speak english, out for respect towards other people. But in the actual contest, there are four people under the same roof; how could we expect to speak another language different from italian?? Finally, and I know that it's so sad to say, a lot of time we come back home from work really tired and exhausted and it's become natural to speak in italian for laziness.
Anyway, initially I was talking about the things that are changing or that are not. Well, fortunately, I think something is going to change in my daily work, particularly in regard to the opportunity to get an hourly paid job instead of the other jobs which are paid relating to the fact that you are fast or not (salary based on the number of bin/boxes harvested). But in this moment I feel I should just bring out this potential event that could happen, a new job, but I don't want to delve into the discussion, I want to be superstitious!
By the way, as I said before, I'm still living with other italian guys and my english is getting worse. Maybe. Sincerely, I believe that my level is not worse or better then the one that I had when I was in Perth. The main problem is that I lost some of my confidence, every day I need a sort of "warm up" before speaking relaxed and be comfortable with my english. I also think that I found the solutions of the problem: my ex housemate and the new job represent the way to keep going with my improvement, in addition to continue to write this blog and watch movies and serial in english. In the new potential job all the pepole who work are australian, so I'd speak english all day; why my housemate? Because she's my teacher, I can really learn with her (and she can learn italian with me, is a good deal!) given that when I was in Perth we had hell of a lot of interesting discussion and talking about different topics which allow me to test my english and work out of it trying to use as much word I could. I hope to set a sort of weekly appointment(s) in order to speak english more and more and start again to be involved in my english absorption!
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