Il mio Overseas a Sydney, Australia (Gen-Lug 2007)... e il mio periodo di Tesi all'Estero a Rotterdam/Utrecht, Olanda (Ott 2007-Mar 2008)!

12th July – Aussie Balance

If I have to make a balance, what should I say? Something like what the Doctor said when he lost his championship in 2006...
“I’ve made some mistakes, then I tried to push but I did not succeed.”
“It has been my fault... on my third experience abroad I thought I was invincible, but invincibles only exist in comics.”
“I had to declare my feelings much earlier, I would have arrived more relaxed in June when the hardest time came.”
“If I would have managed to stay as I wanted (ie. not falling in love), all this mess would have not happened, but you cannot control such a deep feeling.”
“Unfortunately the whole period went this way. At least I can say I tried my best with all the troubles I had.”
“I may be happy for the exam results, but I cannot forget the first defeat in the world history in an Italy-Austria challenge as my Italian friend Fabio suggested me. And it has not been the only defeat I suffered”.
“I hope to have my way back if I will have another academic chance abroad, or when I will come to Australia again. I cannot let my dreams of this place ending in this way.”

AFTER LEAVING
A countless of  "I miss you", which in some way enhanced my sorrow.

BEFORE LEAVING
"We certainly enjoyed your company (...) and if you come back, let us know!"
"Thanks Iurij for keeping in touch. (...) That's sad that you are leaving soon"
"I am so sad we cannot see each other before you leave"
"Thanks for being so kind and thoughtful, it was great meeting you"
"It was great to meet you"
But the greatest, more complex one, was the following, written by my French friend I would have met the following day in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia... he probably really understood the whole story...
"You should have put a candle in St Peter on ur way, can't believe the bad luck you had in Oz. And still you managed to meet plenty of people, see plenty of places drink too much and too often and screw up your finance exam. Now I'd like to see what the italiani is able to do under normal conditions!"

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announcements, journey/flight

12th July – Goodbye Aussieland

I arrived in Sydney Airport at something past 10PM, took a bus (massive saving once again!) to 62 Redfern Street, had some food offered by Harrison and Emilie and then I went to UTS to sleep.
Yes, my last night in Sydney was a homeless night, but after all the troubles UTS caused to me I deserved a free night accomodation at least!

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bureaucracy, sydney, accomodation, uts , journey/flight

11th July – Steve Irwin Park/3

And these are the last pictures from the park.

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holiday, brisbane, steweirwin

11th July – Steve Irwin Park/2

I go on with my collection of pictures from the park.
In the second of this list you can also see Steve with one of “his” crocodiles! ;-)

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holiday, brisbane, steweirwin

11th July – Steve Irwin Park/1

The last day in Brisbane hasn’t been spent by me in Brisbane actually.
Before leaving from Italy I promised to some friends that I would have gone to the Steve Irwin Park. And I did. A promise, once again, is a promise for me. For those who don’t know him, Steve was the legendary man who became popular for his time spent in preventing some species (especially crocodiles) from being hunted until they would have disappeared. Unluckily he died while he was shooting a documentary about the marine life, hit by a stingray spine in his chest.
I took the crock-connection bus to the park, and started my visit. Since it’s wuite hard to give the description of every single moment there, I put here some pictures so you can choose your favourite animal and, next time, go to the Steve Irwin Park in case you are in Australia. It’s roughly 70/80kms north of Brisbane, a very short distance in this country.

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holiday, brisbane, steweirwin

10th July – Second day in Brisvegas

For the second day we decided together that I would have gone around alone in the morning and early afternoon, then Connie would have picked up later on to go out together with the same friends of the day before, and it was not a bad idea since we had a lot of fun the previous night.
The first thing I visited was the Nepalese Pagoda in Southbank.

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holiday, brisbane

9th July – Welcome to Brisbane!

I arrived in Brisbane after fourteen hours spent on a train, I think I slept for just two of them. It was something like 6.30AM when we got into Roma Street (Transit) Station.

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holiday, brisbane, journey/flight

8th July – The Redfern Church

The last Sunday in Sydney and Australia corresponded to the last time I went to the church in Redfern.
This church had often been not so rcrowded. Saying the same concept in other words, let’s say there were not so many people going there. But it had a particular characteristic, it was the church where Australians, white people, were mixed with real Australians, aboriginal people.

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holiday, sydney, accomodation

7th July – Goodbye great bike

The same night, after my (short and incomplete) walk, I had to meet my Financial Management team member, Anh from Vietnam.
We battled hard in our FM group project. She worked a lot on it and I added my knowledge. We were quite happy when we handed in the paper but when our teacher brought it back tha mark was 9 out of 20... so a FAIL! She could not believe it and did not want even to see the paper. I decided to act differently.
First of all I asked to see the paper with the solutions.
Then I took ours and compared the two of them. Once I spotted that the man who checked the papers was a ridiculously lazy one I claimed a further revision from the subject coordinator.
She warned me that doing this, we could even have had a worse mark. But I was sure we were right so I persisted in my complaint and after thirty minutes our mark magically changed from 9/20 to 13.5/20... 4.5 marks more, 50% of what we initially got!
I hoped that the “doctor” who checked our papers had been fired.
By the way, let’s go back to my goodbye to my friend. She wanted something mine to remember me after our winning battle, so I decided to sell my bike to her, even if someone else offered me more money. But it wasn’t a matter of money, it was a matter of friendship. Nevertheless if I consider all the money I saved using the bicycle I have to say it has been a great affair!

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holiday, sydney, uts , the battle of sydney

7th July – Bondi to Coogee (Bondi) walk

My last “full” day in Sydney came suddenly.
I decided to do to Bondi to Coogee walk, a walk which was not supposed to be as much spectacular as the Manly Scenic Walk I did in April, but which anyway was worth to do according to the Lonely Planet guide.
I started from the golf coure north of Bondi Beach. There were some Aboriginal engravings on the rocks which looked interesting. At least it was quite easy to spot the stuff they were representing.

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holiday, beach, sydney