The second to last
Newsletter – before I come home. After you dealed all very well with the
“Shock” from last time, here we go again. Not with a Shock but we´ve made a
decision. See yourself:
// DAY 593 – 623
// CAFÉ
The Spanish girl is no
longer working with us but we found another Barista, who has already worked
with our coffee brand, instead. She will covering me from December onwards.
Working with the others is not as much fun as it used to be – except with
Fatima (and Tenille, who unfortunately quit :(). The other girls are just missing
a bit of humour if you ask me... well, it´s not for much longer.
Unfortunately nothing
happened in terms of the certificate yet. I´m not sure if I´ll get that before
I leave. Beside that it varies between being busy and quiet. I still enjoy it
but realise as well that the challenges are nearly gone. Of course I can still
improve but it slowly gets a bit boring. Anyway, I´ve learnt a lot – as well
about cooking.
// ADAM
Adam is good, too. He
is looking forward to come to Germany and we started to learn German a bit more
intensively. I´ve done stickers with the English and the German word and placed
them all over our room :) He slowly understands how we
pronounce words an loves our nouns he can put together (just logic ;)). I´m
unfortunately not the biggest help with grammar or High German but the biggest
shock might come when we touch down in the Allgäu :).
// SPRING
The
weather is still very changeable. While there are bush fires in Sydney we had
rain for about 1,5 weeks. The summer only starts beginning of December but if
there is a nice day we have already 31 degrees – which is enough! I have Hay
fever here, too. I didn´t expect that but luckily they have plant based tablets
here as well :)
//JOAN AND JAMES
Mid of
October we each took a few days of as Adam´s mum and her Partner were visiting
us for a week. It was great to finally meet them in person!
James
is a Kiwi and both went back to England last year in January, the last ones of
Adam´s relatives.
We´ve
treated our self very well and went out for dinner and lunch a lot. We´ve
showed them the Hot Springs, went to the beach and made a river cruise from the
city to one of the suburbs. They showed me how to play “Blob” (a newzealand
card game which is like our “Aufzug”) and we had a great week all up! On
Saturday Joan invited me for High Tea at the Windsor Hotel, which was
wonderful, and we had time to get to know each other even better. I´m really looking
forward to seeing them again in England :)
// LANEWAY LEARNING
I was lucky and got
another 2 spots in those very popular courses:
1. How to make a wallet our of a
Tetrapak
2. Easy crochet – we crochet a necklace
Both courses were
fantastic again :) I loved the idea with the wallet so
much that I simply did one for all my colleagues before Giovanni had the idea
to offer them to our customers as well. I´ve sold one already ;)
I´ll really miss this
courses! I wonder if we have something like that in Germany and if not… I think
it would be worth looking into a similar model :)
// BRUNSWICK
Close to the end of
our time here we finally managed to go out with one of our flatmates. It was
very spontaneous which it probably needed to be ;) Beside that we made a bike
tour and covered some of the attractions in Brunswick, which we´ve only seen
from the car so far. We went to the main cemetery, did a “Graffiti-Photoshoot”
(Melbourne is famous for Murals and Graffiti after all) and had lunch in our
favourite bar. There is plenty of other things to do, of course, but we still
have some time left ;) Pics are attached!
// THE RACES
Beginning of November
was when the Horse races and the famous Spring Carnival were starting. A great
spectacle where everyone gets dressed up (with hats, dresses, tailcoats, top
hats etc.), bets on horses and enjoys the time at the races. It didn´t appeal
to me at all in the first place and I only had planed to be at one of the train
stations on Melbourne Cup Day (which was a Tuesday and bankholiday) to take
pictures of all the beautiful people. But when a friend of Bron´s pulled out on
short notice they thought about me – WOOOHOOOO! It was amazing! To see
something like that closely is awesome even if I felt sorry for the horses
sometimes… but the atmosphere! Every racing day has a different theme or topic
and the Derby Day was all in “Black & White”. Bronya and Michelle got there
hair and make-up done before they picked me up, and after a bottle of French
champagne we made our way to the racecourse in Flemington. I was blown away by
the variety of fascinators (I didn´t know what that was before but it is
something you wear in your hair, not a hat, that fascinates people). We got
really close to the animals and the racecourse so that the 10year old girl in
me just wanted to sit on one of the horses :)
At some stage we´ve
seen a guy in Leather pants (the traditional ones from Bavaria) and he
explained to me that he got them at the October Fest – hahaha – that´s
brilliant! You go to a horse race in Melbourne and find an Aussie in Leather
pants :)
We had the greates day
with 26 degrees and blue skies :) It couldn´t have been any better!
I´ve attached heaps of pics for you ;)
// THIS AND THAT
Adam finally found
some really good sand, on a beach we both wouldn´t have thought of: St. Kilda´s
“Dog beach”. It´s only possible at low tide or when the high tide is coming. It
is on a spit which makes it even better as you only have about 3 hours time
before it gets surrounded and taken away by the sea. It´s great to watch them
fall. Adam put his Video´s on Youtube now :) Here some links in case you are
curious:
We found our wedding
rings, too :) 10 minutes hehe. I finally attached the pic
from the engagement ring – as I missed it last time.
We decided as well to
come to Germany/Europe for now. I don´t have a Visa anyway and as we were both
not really convinced we decided to take our time and see what the other side of
the world has to offer. Therefore we are mentally busy with shutting our lifes
here down and get everything done till December. I´m really looking forward to
coming home but I´m as well concerned how well I can adapt again. I have big
worries that I´m not prepared for snow or Christmas at all (even if I know it
is coming) – therefore I expect a culture shock which is probably 2 times
heavier… but we´ll see. It will definitely be emotional!
That´s it from my side
(for this time).
Lots of love,
Baba
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