Hello lovely readers,
this month was
emotionally very eventful – and is still. As closer we get to the end of my
time here, as more nervous and confused I am. It continues to go up and down,
every week another situation. That´s why I don´t make any more forecasts or
plans here anymore, it´s just not possible! Potential jobs and other events
just pull everything apart and there are still too many variables.
At the moment I
struggle with seeing things clear and making decisions, as they all would start
a chain reaction… and I wanna be sure to make the right ones for me - or better
us.
We try to keep up the
positive energy and will find a way :) Here now the news, not much this
time but even more exciting and with heaps of pics:
// DAY 532 – 582
// THE LOVELY WORK... OR WHY WORKING FOR
SOMEONE DICTATES OUR LIFE
There are not many news from the Café. I´m still working Tuesday – Thursday (with exceptions when
Tenille, my collegue, can´t make it). We finally found a female chef and are
now open on Saturdays as well (this shift is done by my other collegue Fatima
as T and me are not able/willing to do Saturdays). You can definitely tell that we get
more customers from week to week and I really hope that I soon can work with T
everyday as otherwise it gets kind of boring…
I still do the Tennis
lessons, too. It slowly gets better and it is always great to see how these
little ones progress :) but I struggle a bit with the
setup. The organisation is quite on short notice, most games I don´t know and
then there are the parents watching (as one lesson is only 30 minutes) and
that´s really annoying. Well, the new term starts in October and till then I
have to see if I continue or not. It´s not really worth it… will see. I hope I
can show you some pics at some stage ;)
Finally something with
my design application has happened as well. I´ve got an invitation for an interview
up in Sydney. The company SKINS are re-locating their Headquaters from
Switzerland back to Australia and therefore are searching for a Designer. They
do compression garments for athletes and as I developed the Techfit range
within adidas they were really interested. So I took a Wednesday off and flew
to Sydney to catch up with them. I felt well prepared, with the help from
Bronya and Google, and was ready for everything – just not what happened then!
It was only her and me, no one from the agency or company – ok – then, after a
short introduction on the company aso. she started asking me questions about my
CV – ok as well – and after about 20 minutes she finally tells me that they are
searching for a developer as well and that she haven´t had a look at my
portfolio yet. To keep it short: I felt tricked! To get me fly up to Sydney for
a Design position and then kind of trying to sell me the Developer position.
Anyway. It didn´t work out in the end which is ok. I wasn´t 100% convinced…
A lot of things were
happening for Adam, too. He had a second interview for the teaching job and got
it offered a few days later :) Personally he haven´t had such a
good feeling about the interview and therefore kept looking for other jobs. And
as it always is everything´s happening at the same time! So now he has 2 jobs,
one from Monday – Friday and the other one Saturdays and Sundays. It probably
will be too much longterm but we will see… first of all he is quite happy that
the money flows ;)
// SPRING IN AUSTRALIA... OR WHAT I CALL
SUMMER ;)
It´s
officially SPRING :)… with temperatures between
20 and 25 degrees (up in Sydney even more!) – unbelievable, isn´t it? I just
can´t believe it, one moment we are still heating and the next moment we can
leave the house in shorts. Crazy! :)
But
they´ve warned me that August and September can be quite like our April… we´ll see.
// WE ARE BACK ON THE
ROAD... OR THE COMFORTS OF GERMAN PRODUCTS
As Adam
is back to work (and in his occupation a car is requested) we have a rental car
again, nothing less then a VW Golf :) Real German Quality hehe
We
immediately took advantage of it, of course, and made our way to the Hot
Springs again, they are just too good! Hopefully there will be more trips to come…
We as
well had a flat tyre the other day and finally had to change tyres again :) Has been a while. Beside that Adam enjoys the driving with Turbo and
is looking forward to the german Autobahns :) I hardly can wait to drive again, too… has been a few month. With the
rental cars they only assign one driver (Standard) and I don´t really need it.
Melbourne has as well quite strange rules sometimes and with all the trams I´m
not to keen anyway…
// SPARETIME... OR WHAT´S FAR MORE IMPORTANT
BESIDE WORK :)
We went to the “Fat
Freddy´s Drop” concert and it was EPIC! I didn´t know them live but from the
first song onwards it just put us right back to Wellington! Simply great music
from New Zealand! Worth checking out :)
Tim had his 35th
birthday and organised a little Backyard Party and I crafted a few paper
flowers at my laneway learning course :)
There is as well one thing
I was really sad about: Adam couldn´t make it to Sydney with me because of his
new teaching job :( Unfortunately I couldn´t get the
money for the flights back either so I decided to go on my own. I could even stay with my host mum (with whom I lived 7 years ago while I was doing my
internship in Sydney) and hoped I could catch up with some other people I know.
I was definitely looking forward to it – it was just a real pity that we couldn´t
do it together.
// SYDNEY...OR BACK INTO THE PAST
Thursday evening after work
I made my way (with only hand luggage, just saying) to Sydney. After a few
delays I arrived in Balmain at 1am and was very happy that Kristin left a key
for me somewhere. What an act! Just 1,5 hours flight but 6 hours travelling.
Friday, first of all, I had a sleep in and then made my way to the City. I had a few flashbacks in the morning already (as the house looks pretty much like 7 years ago... and in
general nothing seems to have changed) and it continued in the CBD. First stop
was the german bakery in the Queen Victoria Building. I needed a Salami bun and
a Brezel :) Beside
that I had a stroll, took a ride with the ferry and just enjoyed the day!
Sydney is and will always be BEAUTIFUL! At dinner I´ve finally seen Kristin
again and even she hasn´t changed! She helped counting the votes (as it was the
election´s weekend in Australia: the labour party won and Tony Abbott is the
new Prime Minister, yes, I know about politics ;)). We had a great evening with
Steak and wine and talked a lot about old times... funny, I didn´t really think
I would come back there again :)
Saturday morning we went for
brunch with Anna, Kristin´s niece, in Balmain. This suburb is still one of my
favourites! Not too far from the center but still far enough. After I bought
some sunscreen (as they said it would be 30 degrees!!!) I took the bus to
Coogee beach. That was packed! I found it warm, too, and as well had my togs
underneath, but they were nuts! Like in the peak of summer... everyone was in
the water and sunbathing. Note to myself: We are in AUSTRALIA!
On Sunday I took the ferry
to Manly to check out the famous beach (as I haven´t done that in 2006). The
weather wasn´t that great anymore and so the people here were rather in wetsuits
on their surfboards. But there was a very nice market in the small Manly and as
well a german Beercafé – no one has to tell me that twice ;) Later I cooked dinner
for Kristin and monday morning I spent in Balmain to buy some flowers and wine
to say "Thank you". It´s fantastic to have a place to stay! Unfortunately it´s not as
easy when you live with other people...
All up Sydney was great but
after 3 full days I was as well ready for Melbourne. I think it was great to do
a trip to Sydney again. The location is hardly beatable but somehow I feel
more comfortable in Melbourne now.
// ANNIVERSARY... OR HOW FAST A YEAR GOES BY
The trip to Sydney was
planned for the both of us, as I said, as we had our 1st anniversary on the 7th
of September... quite crazy how time is flying! It feels longer hehe (good or
bad sign?) ;)
Anyway, we haven´t hardly
seen each other in a few weeks as Adam´s Mo-Fr job has mad hours during the
night and he sometimes comes home in the morning. Therefore I was extremely
happy when he showed up at my workplace at 7am to surprise me with
flowers :) Next
weekend we will definitely catch up on some celebration...
...therefore more next time.
All the best,
Baba
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