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Picture from my friend Vanessa |
Everything started two years ago, I was in
class and someone arrived to the teacher ´s table and he started to speak about
his experience in Australia. I don’t know if the idea was good because he
looked very handsome or because you could learn English in a paradise, but the
idea was born.
So when I finished University two years later,
my father told me: “Sara, you need to do two more things, one of them is learning
English and the other is getting a driver´s license”. So, I came in Australia to try to get the
first of them and to live the most interesting experience in my life which I
never imagined.
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Light House, Byron Bay |
I arrived four months ago, although I did not
really want to come to Byron Bay. My family, my friends, my love and all my
life was in Spain and suddenly I was alone and I needed to learn how to live
with unknown people in an Australian house, completely different to the
European house.
And my troubles started here: My first house
wasn’t really good, it was with a couple in a Home stay and they didn’t let me
to use the Kitchen. The second house wasn’t better because it was too far from
my school and to the city town and the landlady was a really serious person. In the end, I found a third home where I
stayed for three months.
At the first moment, I was looking for another
while I lived there, because it was a hippie and Australian house, with a crazy
landlady. But that´s not really true at all, because she became my big sister,
like another flatmate who is like my little sister, my friend and my mate.
On the other hand, my second problem was to
find a job, a really good job. One day I was going to give my resumes and I
stopped in a Chinese Restaurant. It looked like a good idea, and I met the boss,
and he gave me the job as a cook! He was really good and I was really glad
until he started to fall in love with me….I was twenty three years and he was
forty years old… so one day he asked me if I wanted to stay with him and I
answered him no. I was fired.
I did not want to call my family in Spain to tell
them what happened as I did not want to worry them… so I chose to shut up my
mouth and to start to look for another job. But the job didn’t arrive and I had
to tell them what had happened in the Chinese restaurant, and they sent me
money.
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View from our Hotel |
After that, Christmas Holiday arrived. I was
pretty anxious because my mum came to Australia to keep me company and to see
my crazy and lovely house. She made me happy and she gave me a lot of presents
from her and from my family. My mother and I we went to the Gold Coast, we
lived in Byron Bay where we enjoyed the beach with authentic sunny days, and we
visited Brisbane where we slept in a wonderful Hotel...and it was there where I
started to feel love for this city.
I didn’t know how much I missed living in a
city. I still remember when I arrived to Byron and someone called me “city
girl”. He was right, I am really a city girl at heart. When my mum and I
arrived again in Byron after the amazing days in Brisbane one idea appeared in
my head… I wanted to go to Brisbane to find a big opportunity, a good job.
But.. do you Know? One day in Byron I was sad
and one of my friends asked me if I wanted to go with her to give resumes… and
we did it. But when she found a job and two male friends of mine got jobs too suddenly
the idea to go to Brisbane went back into my head. And just at that moment,
when I made the decision to go to Brisbane, my mobile started to sound. “Hi, do you want to work in my thai restaurant?” The best Christmas
present! A job!. My answer was “Yes! I want”
And they gave me the job. The best job which I
have had in my life because I learned English while I served and talked with customers
and my work mates and I enjoyed it a lot there. However Byron started to go
quiet… and I made a decision. It wasn’t really easy but I did it… I wanna go to
Brisbane.
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Brisbane Story Bridge |
So I am here now. Lights, colours, high
buildings, stunning views… and places crowded. Music, crazy birds round my new house
in the morning, a lot of cars, horns beeping, pedestrians, I with my bike,
Brisbane Eye, the river, beautiful Bridges… and peace. Peace, peace in solitude
of the crowd.
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Byron Bay |
Now I´m sitting on my Balcony and I´m glad to
stay in Brisbane but I can say I will miss Byron Bay because I just have great
memories about it: Stunning beaches, wonderful parties, awesome people,
handsome surfers, huge waves, whales into the sea, changeable weather with
sunny and cloudy days, hot dogs at three a.m, going to Woolworths, cakes from
my landlady, Australian movies, spiders bigger than my hand, BBQs in Clark
Beach, Sunrise in the most easterly point of the Australia mainland, my first
Wallaby (small kangaroo), my first dragon, my first shark, getting lost in the
Jungle, Skype with Spain and Corea… and lovely and unforgettable moments with
my friends and with good people. These are a few of my favourite things.
At the end … I have just one question in my
head… Will I be alone in Brisbane? I don´t think so… because again I am in the
city and I´ m ready to start again!
WELCOME TO MY SECOND ADVENTURE