Hello again everyone!
It's been so long since i last posted on the blog... and so
much has happened! I'll try to keep it short and linear so not to bore you too
much with the details...
I guess you all stopped reading while i was coming back from
my internship in Cambodia... that was mid-November if i remember correctly...
well, I came back to Italy after that to enjoy a wonderful Christmas and New
Year's eve with my family. I was waiting for January to come so i could apply
for the science officer position with Shallow Waters, in the meanwhile I was
also looking for the best solution to do my IDC (scuba instructor course) so
that it would finish in time for me to take a plane to Cambodia and start
working at the beginning of June.
Unfortunately, things didn’t go as planned... but we'll get
to that.
First, i want to tell you all about a wonderful weekend i
spent in the mountains with my dear friend Carlotta. After knowing each other
since we were 14 we finally made plans to go to her house in Austria together!
It's a cute little apartment in a town called Bad Kleinkircheim, about 2 hours
drive away from Udine; it's known very well around northern Italy for it's ski
slopes, resorts and thermal water SPAs... and we did it all! We didn't have
much time (and money) but we made the best of it! The first day the weather
wasn't really the best.. it was raining in the morning and fortunately it got
cold enough during the day to make it turn to snow, anyhow, we decided to go
for a full day SPA treatment.
The structure was incredible, huge to say the least and
filled with every kind of sauna, Turkish bath, pool, salt rooms, outdoor
Jacuzzis etc. Every half hour there was a different kind of treatment in different saunas.. once time with salts,
another with lemongrass cream, another with chocolate, chili, wine any so many
other things... there were so many we couldn’t try them all, also because the
place was pretty packed with people. Anyhow, we had the time of our lives; we
came out of there at 6 in the evening after almost 10 hours of relaxation,
feeling like baked sponges...lol. Needless to say we crumbled in bed that
night! SPAs are more tiring that what you would expect! :P
The next day we went on the skiing...I went snowboarding.
The last time I got on one had been at least 2 or 3 years ago so it took me the
better part of the first hour to get the hang of it again. After countless
falls and unimaginable quantities of snow down my back it finally started
coming back to me and by lunch time i was back to being a pro! :P The slopes
were so long and numerous that we didn't go down the same way twice in the
whole day! They were amazing to say the least... sorry to say they're a
completely different level compared to what we have in Italy... congrats to the
Austrians. I must say, it turned out to be an amazing way to close off 2013!
Just the right mixture of fun, relax, sports and friends!
The next couple months were pretty uneventful; we went up to
the mountains to my grandparent's house once or twice to say hi to them and my
uncles/aunts and cousins before leaving, but apart from that i basically stayed
at home and followed the usual routine... workouts, gym, cycling, pool with my
sister etc. Started to get boring pretty quickly! :P January and February
passed by in the blink of an eye and it was finally time to leave again!
Destination: Maldives! (With a stop in London first)
And that's where I’m writing from now, London. I'm at the
end of a wonderful week spent here with friends, and I couldn't have asked for
a better way to suck in some last civilization before leaving for a deserted
island again :P Although i suppose this time it will be a lot less deserted.
However, let's get back to Cambodia and the news I was
telling you about at the beginning of the post. Long story short, my place was
swooped up by someone much more qualified than me (even overqualified for that
position, in my opinion), so i won't be going back to Cambodia after all.
Bugger. On top of that, my plan B (a 3 month teaching job in America), failed
miserably as well because by the time i wrote to them, they were already fully
staffed form this coming summer. Serves me right... double bugger. So plan C...
there really isn't a plan C for now... Plan C is finding something, anything in
the Maldives or any other job online. At this point id be happy to work as a
simple Scuba Instructor in any dive center or resort for the rest of the season
or until i find something, anything biology-related. Just to have some sort of
income and finally stat to be completely independent. One thing is for sure...
i don't want to go back home in 3 months time. I'm sick of living off my family
and i need to start my own life. Even if that means doing something completely
different from what I studied and from what I want to do in life... at least
for a while.
Oh well, I'll sort it out somehow. For now, lets concentrate
on doing my course and figuring out how to dry my wet laundry before getting to
the airport! XD
Brace yourselves for lots more photos and videos in the
photo gallery this time around! Apparently, we'll have good internet on the
island so I'll make full use of it! Skype included! I apologize in advance if I
disappear from time to time but I’ll be on a working schedule 6 days a week
from 7:00 to 18:00 and I have no idea of how busy it will be. Drop a message if
you want and I’ll get back to you as soon as I can (Skype ID: hockey__88)
