So after more than ten days, it is time to write something more about what is going on on the other side of the world...
Sydney has been amazing even if I was so fucked up for the first couple of days...it was jet-legged for sure, but that was mixed up with almost 48 hours of not sleep...I managed to fall asleep only when the flight took off from Bangkok, and only for one hour...the positive thing is that every passenger has a device where he can play, listen to music, see movies and see what is going on out of the plane...so I was busy with this machine for thw hole time...
Back to Sydney: we lived IN FRONT of the ocean: the beach was LITERALLY 40 seconds far away from us....we had fun the whole time, we did not go out that often though (thank you for the tips anyway, Lee) but we saw a lot of stuff...the city is build on the most beautiful piece of land I have ever seen...it is like living next to beautiful nature all the time...on the other side there is so much traffic...so many cars and so many trucks and polluting machines...
I tried to surf with a Venetian friend of mine who lives there, we had Indian food, Italian dinner at home, we saw the city with its big skyscrapers, we took a feryy, saw a theather play and so many other nice things...
Now we are in Adelaide, probably a city not as exciting as Sydney but a place where a lot is going on anyway and where your contact with nature is there all the time, every time you walk around...
By the way, there is this festival going n now: it is the biggest cultural festival of the whole Australia (it is only 20 millions people living here but it is cool anyway!), yesterday we listened to some local bands playing their own stuff, drinking Shiraz in a beer garden just next to another club...Holydays!!! Vacation, that is it!
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Friday, March 16, 2007
Dubai International Airport
I am just waiting to be there since a couple of weeks...since she arrived there, that is the point.
I am not in Europe anymore, first time in my life. Not the last, hopefully. Do I look more German than a year ago? I have this feeling somehow...two stewards from Alitalia looked so Italian at the bar, one hour ago...I am writing from the funny and silently messy Dubai International Airport, a place where you could find people from all over the world (almost), running after Western clichés, trying to fill their luggages with them, more or less...is that enought if I say that the biggest restaurant in here is an Irish Pub...?
But since the wireless is for free and since I am alone I am having fun, somehow.
Take care you all.
Cool that you live there, Lee!!! Any tip about stuff that we should do in the five days we will spend there?
A big kiss to everybody.
I am not in Europe anymore, first time in my life. Not the last, hopefully. Do I look more German than a year ago? I have this feeling somehow...two stewards from Alitalia looked so Italian at the bar, one hour ago...I am writing from the funny and silently messy Dubai International Airport, a place where you could find people from all over the world (almost), running after Western clichés, trying to fill their luggages with them, more or less...is that enought if I say that the biggest restaurant in here is an Irish Pub...?
But since the wireless is for free and since I am alone I am having fun, somehow.
Take care you all.
Cool that you live there, Lee!!! Any tip about stuff that we should do in the five days we will spend there?
A big kiss to everybody.
Monday, March 12, 2007
Saturday, March 10, 2007
Saturday, March 03, 2007
March deserves a post as well.
Last wednesday I finished my experience as a volunteer in the kindergarten...those nine months have not been always wonderful, but the very most of the time I felt that I was so(ooooo) lucky to be there, enjoying the big and amazing findings that children experience every single day, when they are two years old.
I lived more than a third of their actual life with them: nine months out of 24 are a lot...
I know that J. does not sleep that long, that N. misses the mother a lot when he is not busy with some new games, that L. do not eat carrots and a thousands of other informations like these. I can recognize their voice, the way the cry and the way they scream.
I know that children - as the teacher I have been working with last week said to her colleague - are the most surpirising and amazing phenomenon that human beings can experience. That is something that probably every single person would say or at least agree upon; but the best is when you experience it in such a direct and sincere way.
There are children in that kindergarten that, unless only two years old, say my name when they are home with the parents. Some of them could call me 50 times a day while we were doing something together. It is something that makes your heart bigger, for sure.
I hope you do not find it cheesy. It is not cheesy, damn!
What you can also learn from such an experience is that some parents decide to have children for some reason but, after a while, they see their sons and daughters as they see sport or hobbies...if the parents are not in the mood, the child is a bit put in the background...and that is sad and made me angry, a lot.
Whatever...anyway on Wednesday I had my sort of Farewell Party,all the children of the kindergarten sang for me....I got flowers and presents, but nothing, nothing will be as good as what happened with my 14 children: they all came to me with one tulip in their hands, and said one after the other "Alles gute"...I was almost to cry, uau...I have to thank the teacher mostly...you know at this age children this organizing capabilities...
I kissed all of them though....
I left them while they were sleeping, did not feel say "tschüß" as a normal day...
Anyway this thing is gone. I am now looking for something new.
SO Ill be first of all back to my humid city for 5 days...
What else?
I finally managed to make my apartment look nicer...now I have some more pieces of furniture! And some will come soon!
My love is already in the other side of the world, I´ll join her in two weeks...It is so hard to wait a month being so apart from, but Skype and webcam techonology help a lot.
I am looking for an internship or a job. But it is not so easy...that is just challenging!
A big hug to all of you.
I lived more than a third of their actual life with them: nine months out of 24 are a lot...
I know that J. does not sleep that long, that N. misses the mother a lot when he is not busy with some new games, that L. do not eat carrots and a thousands of other informations like these. I can recognize their voice, the way the cry and the way they scream.
I know that children - as the teacher I have been working with last week said to her colleague - are the most surpirising and amazing phenomenon that human beings can experience. That is something that probably every single person would say or at least agree upon; but the best is when you experience it in such a direct and sincere way.
There are children in that kindergarten that, unless only two years old, say my name when they are home with the parents. Some of them could call me 50 times a day while we were doing something together. It is something that makes your heart bigger, for sure.
I hope you do not find it cheesy. It is not cheesy, damn!
What you can also learn from such an experience is that some parents decide to have children for some reason but, after a while, they see their sons and daughters as they see sport or hobbies...if the parents are not in the mood, the child is a bit put in the background...and that is sad and made me angry, a lot.
Whatever...anyway on Wednesday I had my sort of Farewell Party,all the children of the kindergarten sang for me....I got flowers and presents, but nothing, nothing will be as good as what happened with my 14 children: they all came to me with one tulip in their hands, and said one after the other "Alles gute"...I was almost to cry, uau...I have to thank the teacher mostly...you know at this age children this organizing capabilities...
I kissed all of them though....
I left them while they were sleeping, did not feel say "tschüß" as a normal day...
Anyway this thing is gone. I am now looking for something new.
SO Ill be first of all back to my humid city for 5 days...
What else?
I finally managed to make my apartment look nicer...now I have some more pieces of furniture! And some will come soon!
My love is already in the other side of the world, I´ll join her in two weeks...It is so hard to wait a month being so apart from, but Skype and webcam techonology help a lot.
I am looking for an internship or a job. But it is not so easy...that is just challenging!
A big hug to all of you.
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