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)!

25th May – BoS/7: Blue Mountains Trip/3

For a day I could put my head somewhere else, even if the thought of the girl you know was always present. She didn’t come because she had already been there with UTS the Sunday after Easter. Furthermore it was a long time we were not seeing each other, I didn’t even know if the boyfriend was still there!
Anyway finally I did what I am capable to do. I organised a trip and gathered a lot of people, 24 including me. It cost $11,60 for concession holders and $23,20 for those who hadn’t got concessions. Nothing compared to the $79 asked by UTS for the same trip (plus a short stop at the Olympic Park, which means that the UTS time at Blue Mountains has been less). So I also made people saving a lot of money, another reason of which I had to be happy.
But the best of the trip had been the appreciation showed during and after it, with the applauses, throws in the air and texts and emails saying “thank you”, together with the new friends that everyone made that day.
Maybe too late, but at least for a day I could raise my hands to the sky.

Postato da: DexterH46 a 21:45 | link | commenti
holiday, sydney, mountains, the battle of sydney

25th May – Blue Mountains Trip/2

At every lookout we stopped for some minutes. Then, having a look to the map, the leading crew noticed that we had to be faster if we wanted to complete the trip in time to let some of the participants catching the train to be back at Sydney Central by 6.30 PM.
The leading crew was basically composed by me, as the leader and organiser, plus Zjenja (without his help many decisions would have been much more difficult) and sometimes Ish (good suggestions to improve the pace of the crowd) or Nico (he brought a great number of people, so he had to be in the leading crew!).
When the first people started to notice their empty stomach, we decided to have a break.

Postato da: DexterH46 a 11:30 | link | commenti (2)
holiday, sydney, mountains

25th May – Blue Mountains Trip/1

On Friday 18th a group gathered by me had to go to the Blue Mountains, but when we woke up in the morning it was raining, and the cameras we could find on the internet about the Blue Mountains were showing us that it was not the best weather ever to go there.
I received phone calls from 7AM, which means as soon as I turned on my mobile, to 8.30 AM, with no breaks, and we decided together to postpone the trip and do it one week later. Prize "legend of the day" went to Tobias. At 13.33 I got his text saying "obiouvsly it was a good decision not to go, still rain". At 13.40 the sun came out. So I wrote him "Tobi... next time please text me at 7.30 in the morning in case it rains, so we can go anyway! ;-)" .
The following Friday the weather was much better. A bright sun was shining on the sky and a few more people knew about the trip and decided to join the group.
We met at around 8AM at the train station where the crowd was waiting for me. We bought our tickets and jumped on the train but... damn! The train broke down before leaving the station so we had to move to another train and our trip started with a 30 minutes delay.
We reached Katoomba station a bit later than expected, and looked for a detailed map. Our search was unsuccessful, but no worries, we were ready to have a great day, and that was the most important thing!
Before starting to walk we took a picture all together. One, two, three... 24 people! Not bad, do you agree?

Postato da: DexterH46 a 22:41 | link | commenti (1)
holiday, sydney, mountains