Finding a job!!! – Part II

Ok…. in my last post I talked about how I found a job, well, actually started writing about it, but I never finished it, so this is the second and last part on how I found my full time job.

Continuing…

4.- The interview:

The day of the interview arrived, Thursday 3 May. I had prepared everything during the previous days. I also went to the place where the interview was a couple of days before just to know for sure where it was so I wasn’t going to be late.

That morning, Ale, a friend, went to my place and helped me with lunch (bought sushi and brought it home hehehe), talked with me in English for me to be a bit more fluent, and came with me to the place of my interview. We arrived at Central at 2pm (my interview was at 3), and sat until 2:35 in a nearby coffee shop, talked for a while and had a chamomile (for the nervousness).

I arrived at 2:45 at the Dean’s Unit (always show up for an interview 15 min before, not more than that), sat for 5 minutes there until the Head of School, Heather, came out, introduced herself and invited me to follow her. While walking she said: “We will have about 30 minutes to talk”… Meaning: the interview was going to last half an hour.

We arrived at a conference room, where three other people were: the Director of the program in Urban Planning, the Director of the research centre “Centre for Contemporary Design Practices” and one leading Senior Lecturer. I sat down and the interview formally started.

They went directly to the point, so the questions were really focused on their selection criteria. What did they ask me (you could use them and relate them to your own work field after some “adaptations") and what did I answer (a tiny summary of the answer) – remember that all the answers are CLOSELY related to the job ad and the selection criteria:

1.- Tell me three strengths you have and how can they relate to the Urban Planning Program? What can you bring to the program?

I am flexible enough to adapt to different multidisciplinary backgrounds and to work with different projects and assignments at the same time.

Since I am a non-English background lecturer I can relate with the needs of non-English background students, and help them understand more easily the subjects we are discussing.

I am really organised and a good planner, which is appropriate in lecturing and researching when trying to achieve goals such as publications.

2.- Tell me about a time you had a problem working in a multidisciplinary team; and what do you think is the greatest challenge in working in multidisciplinary teams?

I described a STAR response:

Situation: In my last job in a participatory design meeting a social worker was encouraging the community to make more demands, creating a disruption in the design process.

Task: I had to control the situation, neutralise the social worker and make the participatory design process to continue smoothly.

Action: I assigned one of the team member to continuo with the design process. I took aside the social worker, explained to him what we were doing and how he could work with us, which he fully understood.

Result: After the quick discussion the social worker apologised, got in track with what we were doing and collaborated with all. In the end, we successfully finalised the participatory design process, in which both the community and the technical teams were happy with the proposed house. [always a happy and positive ending].

In conclusion the most challenging thing about working in multidisciplinary teams is for each member to fully understand what the other professionals are doing in the project.

3.- Do you have a specific research area and focus? Because I see here in your resume that you are finalising Psychology.

For this answer I asked if I could tell a bit about myself and my professional development because it related to my research focus. (Always ask for feedback)… they said “ok, of course”, and they I started telling on how since my master I always cared about designing for people, and after that working in a research with environmental psychologists and how that was vital for me to define my working interest. So, I studied psychology to get a better understanding on the processes relating the human being and their built environment.

Since all that, my research interest is the relationship between culture and cultural expressions and the built environment, specially the public space.

4.- Tell me about you teaching approach and what do you think it is the challenge in teaching nowadays?

My teaching approach is student-centred… and the challenge nowadays is to jump from a traditional approach where the teacher is the expert to an more equalitarian education where every person in the class contribute to the learning experience.

5.- When are you finalising your PhD?

In the last trimester of this year. [btw, I have to work HARD to achieve that, but now I just HAVE to, and I WILL].

6.- If you were the chosen candidate, when would you be able to start?

I am currently available, so I could start whenever it suits the institution.

…………………………………………………………………………………………..

After that they asked me if I had any questions, and that my friends is THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF THE INTERVIEW. Why? Because there you can not only show that you’re interested to get to know more about the position, but also it’s the opportunity to demonstrate what you researched about the company / university.

In my case I asked three questions:

1. I read on your website that you have three postgraduate courses and that in two of them you have sustainability, urban design and planning theories courses. Is the lecturer position related to any of those subjects?
2. I also got to know that you have several research centres in the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Building. Would the chosen candidate be able to affiliate to any of those centres? How does research work here at UTS regarding that?
3. What are the next steps in the selection process?

To the last question they answered they were going to take a few days to review their notes from the interview process and the reference letters.

The interview lasted for 20 minutes in total. So I left happy about it, but with just one thing on my mind: they didn’t like me so it ended really quickly or they were dazzled by me and they didn’t need more time to make up their mind to hire me.

5.- The call:

The next morning at 8 am, I wrote an email to Heather to thank her and the panel for the interview… and at 8:30 I got a call on my mobile that I couldn’t get at the time…. As soon as I could, I listened to the voice message (it was Heather) and I called her back right away.

She said: “Hi Gabriela, I am calling regarding your interview yesterday. We thought it was really great and we are quite impressed with your teaching experience and your research background, so we’d like to offer you the job”.

As you can imagine I started jumping of happiness all over the unit!!!!!

We talked for a few minutes and arranged a meeting the following Wednesday. 

6.- The contract and beginning to work:

This week HR sent to me by email and post my contract package. So I  am officially contracted by UTS as a Lecturer in Urban Planning… well, actually I’m still in the process of it, filling out all the forms and getting to understand about UniSuper (which manages academic staff’s superannuation).

I’m starting late June, so I have enough time to prepare for classes, which start in August.

Despite that, I already had a work meeting with Heather and next week I’m going to attend as a juror to the pre-final presentation of “Group Project A: Urban Renewals” (one of the courses I’m teaching next semester). I’m really looking forward to that.

And as you imagine: I’m really excited and happy about my new job.

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To finalise this post, I’d like to make a balance of this three months here and the things I said I should have already done by now:

• Start the skillmax course: started, finished it and found it really helpfull.

• Elaborate my portfolio: also did it… I finished it for my UTS interview (because they asked for professional practice experience), and didn’t use it. However, I don’t regret one bit investing time in this task.

• Work on my thesis: haven’t done that jet… but going to start really soon… at most Monday next week…. full steam ahead!!!

• Look and apply for jobs on a daily bases: didn’t do that either… Instead I focused on giving the best of me in my tutorial at UNSW and in applying the best I could for jobs that fit me.

• Look for a place to move: did that!!! I have to write the post about it. However I’ll give you a little glance of that… I live a lot closer to the city, where I can ride a bike almost everywhere (I will ride to go to UTS), and I live with the most amazing czech girl.

• Socialise with my friends here: ok… doing that!!!! hahahahaha…. every time I can.

• Buy some things for when I move: did that… thankfully my roomie had lots of stuff so I didn’t have much to buy.

• Go to yoga classes: did that, but right now I’m waiting to start at UTS, because the have a Fitness Centre (right across the street from my office) that offers yoga classes, and that have really good prices.

That’s it for now…. it’s been a really long post so far … hope you enjoyed it.

 

One month after arriving - some impressions II

Ok... last post the only thing I did was write about time. In this one I'm going to address some other aspects (with no particular order)

SKILLMAX course:
Some people say it's a wonder and you MUST take it... some other people say it's useless to attend to it. MY OPINION so far (just finished my 2nd week there)  is: do it!!! and do it for several reasons: (1) They teach you things about recruiters and the Australian job Market that you just don't know; they even teach you about if the recruiters like or don't like bold and underlined resumes; (2) Your teacher not only corrects your resume like a hundred times (so far I've corrected mine 3 times) but also advises you what to say word by word in an interview depending on your work experience; (3) at least 12 hours a week you HAVE TO practise your English; (4) this is a very good opportunity to listen to other accents and try to understand them; and (5) you get to socialise a bit... and even maybe get a job through networking (you never know).

The distances: although you may have noticed from my previous posts, Sydney is a really LARGE city, so you have to evaluate before moving, where do you want to live (ask around about the suburbs), prioritise what is important to you: time?, money?, your own body? I'm assuming all of the above, but sadly you can't have it all in Sydney.

It can take you up to 2 hours to go from a place to another, easily!!! and may be even more at night depending on where you life. So, if you're short of money there's something you'll need to sacrifice.

Transport system: in general, for a newly arrived, Sydney had a pretty decent transport system (if you have more than 5 years you'll say the system is DREADFUL*) jejeje... well anyway... even I that come from a country with a really DREADFUL transport system, notice that this one has a lot of flaws, that it can be easily improved. For example there are places where you can. only access by bus... when you think about it it's not bad at all, the problem comes when you have to leave early in the morning or arrive late at night... the farther* away and less connection you have with the city the more the chances if having a working bus decreases.

The language - talking and understanding the Englishes: no, that isn't a mistake or a typo, I'm aware there is a spelling and grammar mistake, but I did it on purpose!!! Because here there isn't just one English, there are LOTS of different Englishes!!!! jajaja, the Aussie, the British, the American, the Latin-American, the Chinese, the Korean, the Thai, the Iranian, and so on and on. It's a little bit tricky to understand all of them, but sincerely so far (until today) I didn't have so much trouble understanding people... of course with some people you have to be more attentive*, but in general it was ok; sometimes there were things I didn't understand but nothing out of this world... UNTIL TODAY!!!! Today at my tutorial I had the most hard time understanding my students!!! Since this week we changed our groups into are definitive* ones, and in mine I have like 10 Asians (got the feeling all of them Chinese) from which I couldn't understand 3 of them at all!!! I just nodded :S and there was also this Australian guy that seemed he had a potato in his mouth!!! he was the worst of all, the most difficult one for me to understand... I wanted to run away from there!!! :( But well, next week I'll come a lot more prepared (psychologically) and I know it'll be a lot easier and better.

The odours: well it's not like some may say that everyone in the train stinks, in fact I haven't had so many encounters* of that type; but what I can say with property is that the few people with b.o. (body odour) they don't just smell bad, they REALLY STINK!!! Stink in a way even if you keep your breath, you still can smell them!!! The worst that's happened to me so far was my first day of classes 2 weeks ago. I was walking from home to get the bus and this odour came to me, I didn't know where it was coming from. I couldn't believe it when I realised it was a man more than a block away from me!!! Do you want to know the worst part? He took the same bus I took... you can imagine the rest.

Looking for a place to share: ok, this is the most difficult thing ever!!! jajaja... what I was talking before about sacrifice, well in order for me to live near the city, so it doesn't take me 2 hours at night to come home or stay as a refugee on weekends, and most of all that I can afford, well I have to let go for a while the idea of living by myself... I have to share a flat. So far I've looked at 5 places... and well I'm still looking. In another post I'll write specifically about that.

Well that's it for tonight!!! This post is getting a larger than I planned

One month after arriving - some impressions I

Yes, I know... I've been lost; out if the picture; away... whatever you want to call it... it has been a while since I've written on my blog.

The truth is I've been busy... doing what? REALLY I don't know!!!

Time: here in Oz, I don't know why, but time seems to pass by a LOT faster. In a blink of an eye it's already noon, and in the next one it's 9 pm. All the things I told myself I was going to do this first month, well I haven't done half of it. In this first month I told myself I was going to:

• Start the skillmax course
• Elaborate my portfolio
• Work on my thesis
• Look and apply for jobs on a daily bases
• Look for a place to move
• Socialise with my friends here
• Buy some things for when I move
• Go to yoga classes

What of those have I actually done?

Well, I'm going to yoga classes, I started the skillmax course, I socialised too much, I've looked for a place to live (hopefully tomorrow I'll know where), only bought a printer and some towels... and that's it!!! I haven't look for a job on a daily bases (only have so far applied for one position... not very good statistics for me), haven't even looked at my thesis files and haven't finished my portfolio... so, all the important things I have left behind.

Well it's not that I have the best timetable, and living far from the city doesn't help.

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Morning				READING
	Going 2 skillmax	Going 2 skillmax	Going 2 skillmax
Afternoon	Skillmax	Skillmax	Skillmax	Going to UNSW
				UNWS
Night	Yoga	Yoga	Yoga
	Arriving home	Arriving home	Arriving home	Arriving home

Besides that, for the course I'm tutoring, I have to read A LOT, so all my train rides and my Thursday mornings are only for reading (and tonight writing this post).

The day I turned one month here I realised all of the above... so I told myself to change that, though it's not going to be that easy these 2 next weeks.

This Saturday I'm going to Canberra to register myself to vote in October; on Sunday Clau comes to Sydney for a few days; then on Tuesday Javi comes for a while... and then I have to move.

At nights I'm too tired, and it's too late, to turn the computer on to work. I usually arrive Mon-Wed at 9 pm - today at 11; and on Thursdays I arrive at 11... on the weekends I feel like a refugee, 'cause I stay with friends because of the transport issue to get home - f.e. this Friday I'm staying with a friend in order to be in Central at 7am Saturday, because the first bus I can catch to get to the Parramatta Station is at 6:40 am, which doesn't work for me, because I'd arrive at Central aprox at 7:40am)

Anyway, stop complaining!!! The thing is I have to kick myself in order to finish my portfolio, start applying for jobs on daily bases and finish my thesis.

I'll let you know how that worked :-)

Documents and renting

As I told you in my last post, the day I arrived I applied to get  the TFN and the day after I enrolled myself in Medicare.

Well, last Wednesday I got by mail the letter of the Australian Taxation Office with my TFN. Now I can legally get paid when I get a job and I can go to the bank to register my TFN in order to get full interest on my savings account without the government tax withholding.
Later this week on Friday I got my Medicare card, also by mail.

 

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Now, about renting, I'm talking about looking for a place to live. Although I have already rented a place for 8 weeks and I have only been here for 2 (I still have 6 more weeks in my current place), I have started to look around some of the suburbs of Sydney. This not only to get to know them, but also because of a matter of time. I've been told that here most places that are shown for rent/lease are not available right away. Most of the times the list comes out 2-4 weeks before it actually becomes available for you to move in. So in about 2 weeks I have to formally begin to look for a place to live.

Although Juanpa and Caro told me I can stay there for two more weeks than we agreed, and though I really like North Parramatta, I do want to start looking for another place closer to the city, or at least closer to the train station, where I don't have to depend on the bus. Even better I'd like to look for a place near my full-time job (which I'm going to get really soon) in order for me to walk there or at most go by bike.

In that order of ideas I've found that North Parramatta is REALLY FAR from the civilization... it takes me about an hour and a half on weekdays to get to the city, from the moment I open my door. On weekends it may be a little bit longer... and that is in regular bases. Yesterday, for example, there where train repairs in 4 stations prior to Parramatta, so I had to take a bus from Granville... well, going from Zetland where Arturo and Cari live (near the CBD) to my place and then to Coogee beach (like 20-30 min by bus from Central Station) took us about 4 and a half hours!!!!!!! We got to the beach almost at 7 pm... as you can imagine we didn't bathe or anything. We walked for a while, ate something, spent some time there and around 10:30 went back home. Well, I stayed all weekend with them at their place... if after going to Coogee I would have wanted to go home, it would have taken me at LEAST 2 hours, and I'm not sure I would have found a bus at that hour of the night.

… So, I want to move closer to the city. It would be great to live there by myself in a one-bedroom unit, but it’s quite expensive; so I’m considering sharing a two-bedrooms, two-bathrooms unit with someone (if you, reader, are interested in this, don’t hesitate in contacting me).

On the next post I’ll write about the areas I’d love or at least would be nice to live in.

Preparativos para la mudanza IX–Corte de cabello

Posiblemente a muchos les parezca extraño este título de post… sobre todo si son hombres…

… pero si son niñas entenderán perfectamente.

Hay varias razones para cortarse el cabello antes de la mudanza a Australia… pero les escribo las dos más relevantes desde mi punto de vista:

1.- Generalmente uno tiene su peluquer@ de confianza… en mi caso, mi peluquera, bueno realmente en plural porque tengo 2 que son madre e hija, tienen unas manos del más allá… yo AMO como me dejan el cabello, porque aparte no sé porqué me crece rapidísimo y fuerte… y definitivamente la mano del (la) peluquer@ influye. Así que bueno, a aprovechar el último corte con ellas.

2.- El costo: leyendo blogs y páginas de internet, un corte en Sydney puede oscilar entre AUD 10 hasta 90… obviamente dependiendo del lugar, siendo el primero algo tipo Carmelo’s y el segundo, pues cualquier salón de belleza de renombre del Este de Caracas. En peluquerías promedio allá un corte de cabello puede estar entre 18 y 25 AUD… cabe destacar eso es sólo CORTE!!! (que es lo que yo me hago… para las mujeres que se tiñen el cabello, o se lo secan o afines, pues será mucho más lo que deben pagar). Si multiplican esos precios a valor de lechuga (mientras uno está buscando trabajo y sólo tienes tus ahorros) pues verán que los precios oscilan entre Bs. 90 hasta 180… en mi caso particular mis peluqueras cobran Bs. 80… y no es Carmelo’s jejejejeje. Claro, una vez uno tenga trabajo allá, la situación cambia, pero bueno… se puede aprovechar… y luego de 3 meses de llegar te cortas tu cabello allá cómodamente.

Así que chicas (y chicos que no se pasan la máquina en su casa)… a cortarse el cabello antes de ir a Oz… yo lo hice hoy!!!

Acerca del viaje - Syd y Perth

Hola a todos...

esta vez les copio a modo de post, una conversación que tuve por el chat de gmail con Arturo, un amigo que también se encuentra esperando la aprobación de su visa.


En esa conversa él me preguntó respecto al viaje y a las ciudades y me pareció que podrían parecerles interesantes tanto las preguntas como las respuestas, o por lo menos informativas.

me:  hey 

cómo tas?

 Arturo:  epales!!!1 que mas? todo bien y tu?

 Sent at 9:51 AM on Wednesday

 me:  todo fino 

 Arturo:  

mira y como te termino de ir?

 Sent at 10:03 AM on Wednesday

 me:  jajajajaj si te entiendo 

EXCELENTE... vi que definitivamente el irnos a Oz es una de las mejores decisiones de nuestra visa

vida

 Sent at 10:07 AM on Wednesday

 Arturo:  jajajjaa de seguro que si

y que tal perth?

 me:  y bueno... tener la visión real de las ciudades es impresionante... de hecho a partir del viaje perth está casi totalmente descartado, y sydney entró en consideración

bella, pero demasiado pequeña (la city)... aparte que todo es tan lejos (los suburbios) que necesitas carro....

pero de lo positivo es súper verde y las playas son espectaculares

 Arturo:  esta bien y que mas hiciste por alla?

 Sent at 10:12 AM on Wednesday

 me:  bueno, pasear, conocer, y el congreso al que asistí... que estuvo también genial

 Sent at 10:14 AM on Wednesday

 Arturo:  y de sydney ademas de decir que entro en consideracion, que mas puedes decir?

 me:  dame un sec 

 Sent at 10:16 AM on Wednesday

 me:  ya toy

bueno sydney es increible

súper diversa, con buena accesibilidad

muy activa, pero no tanto como Caracas

las playas también son bellíimas

(y eso que supuestamente no fui a las mejores)

mucha actividad cultural, espacios públicos increibles

no tan verde como perth, pero igual tiene bastantes parques

Arturo:  y el clima que talco? como se siente?

 me:  bien... súper llevable

 Sent at 11:14 AM on Wednesday

 me:  en syd se siente más el frío que en perth, y en realidad es un poco más frío, por la humedad... pero por ejemplo en el día generalmente iba con una manga larga y ya... ya en la noche si usaba una chaqueta porque baja full la temperatura (claro, full tipo verano en canadá

)

perth es más caliente, aunque la semana que fui tuvo las temperaturas más bajas en 25 años... llegó a 0 en la mañana

pero no se siente tanto porque es un clima súper seco

pero igual tienes que llevar chaqueta

de día si sólo una camisa manga larga y ya

porque subía bastante la temperatura... como a 17

 Sent at 11:17 AM on Wednesday

 Arturo:  ok ok bueno suena comodo jeje

y que comiste asi exotico?

me:  si muy cómodo

mucha comida asiática 

que allá es común pero para nosotros acá no

comí japonés, vietnamita, chino y thai

:D

si te gusta... es excelente

 Sent at 11:40 AM on Wednesday

 me:  mucha de la comida tiene chili

 Arturo:  si si   ya me dio hambre

jajaja

 Sent at 11:42 AM on Wednesday

 me:  jajajajajajajaja

bueno, pues prepárate porque te va a encantar Oz en ese sentido

 Arturo:  si si es de las cosas que seguro me gustaran jejeje y el costo?

 Sent at 11:49 AM on Wednesday

 me:  CARO

todo es CARO

peeeerrrrrroooooo

lo que dice todo el mundo

una vez ganas en AUD está bien de precio

Perth es mucho más caro que Syd respecto a los aspectos cotidianos, y Syd es mucho más caro respecto a la vivienda

 Sent at 11:59 AM on Wednesday

 Arturo:  en serio? perth es mas caro en el dia a dia?

y la comida en la calle?

 Sent at 12:06 PM on Wednesday

 me:  dependiendo del restaurante

pero diría que también es más cara

 

Ahí nos fuimos a almorzar y hasta ahí llegó la conversa respecto a Oz... espero que les haya gustado este post fuera de lo común.

Como verán no hablé mucho de Perth así que les debo ese post... lo tengo pendiente; así como la última actualización de la página de status de la visa.

Saludos

SYDNEY

Este post es para contarles mi experiencia de Sydney.

Tengo varios días pensando en cómo hacerlo, si hacer algo cronológico puntual con fotos respecto a lo que he visto o si hablar tipo mitos y realidades de aspectos que YO creía de la ciudad y lo que realmente YO experiencié… cabe destacar que diga lo que diga no es LA realidad, sino es MI realidad, la que viví como turista durante una semana intensa de paseos.

Bueno, luego de meditarlo (por 20 segundos mientras escribía el inicio de este post) decidí hacer una mezcla de ambas opciones, enfatizada por el uso de MUCHAS fotos y relativamente poco texto.

SÁBADO 25/06 - 9:00am: Luego de 40 horas de viaje, un día de caminata intensa en Toronto (gracias Macareño), llegué al aeropuerto de Sydney y me recibieron Larry, Liber y Sophia, fuimos a mi lugar de estadía (donde me consintieron hasta no poder decir más).

Misión del día: mantenerme despierta!!!!... mínimo hasta las 10 pm, me dijeron… así que con Rod y Kathy, a hacer mercado y pasear :D

Un mercado cualquiera en Syd

George St.

DOMINGO 26/06: luego de dormir hasta las 9 am… a seguir paseando con los chicos

La Ópera... no podía faltar

The Rocks

Desde el Observatorio

Darling Harbour

LUNES 27/06: este día fue relax, luego de los dos días pasados que fueron maratónicos. Fuimos Liber, Sophia y yo a Manley, una isla turística espectacular.

Ya para este momento estaba pensando que Syd no era lo que me imaginaba, HYPER ajetreada, tipo megalópolis (por lo cual no nos queríamos venir a vivir acá), sino un lugar si con mucha actividad, pero a la vez relax, no tan megalópolis, lo cual, en conjunto con la constante publicidad por parte de los chicos para que nos vengamos a acá, abría la posibilidad de si poder residir acá… pero bueno, eso era sólo el fin de semana, faltaba ver el resto.

De este día en adelante les debo las fotos, pues aun no las he descargado...

MARTES 28/07: otro día de paseo intenso… conociendo no sólo la city, sino las afueras, hasta los lugares no tan nice (sin bajarme del tren), viviendo la hora pico.

MIÉRCOLES 29/07: puesto que las ampollas en los pies no me dejaban caminar mucho (aun no me dejan) pues fue un día relax, aunque intenso en fondo… hice por primera vez una aplicación a un trabajo acá. Con la SÚPER ayuda de Rod, quien me dio una clase magistral de cómo hacer una “cover letter” (ver en su blog también están todos los detalles), armamos la carta, armé mi CV y me fui directamente a una empresa que posteó en seek.com.au… aun nada, pero la experiencia fue genial. De ahí un paseo relax con Liber y Sophia por Darling Harbour (esta vez de día).

Luego de eso, les hice a los chicos  en agradecimiento por todo, un risotto de champiñones que se vendió muy bien :D

JUEVES 30/06: Con mucho dolor en mis delicados piececitos pero de paseo otra vez. Conocí las urbanizaciones en autobús, luego a la Sydney Tower y a Bondi Beach (no podía irme sin conocerla)… este día aparecieron dos de los mitos más que yo creía: (1) hay más asiáticos que Australianos… pues bueno, de pana que si hay muchísimos, pero no sé si la proporción es tan avasallante, me parece que es más igual, de hecho conté en el tren en hora pico y fijándome sólo en el fenotipo, habían de 12 personas 4 asiáticos, 3 de otras nacionalidades, y 5 australianos; (2) la vida en 100% playera, pues creo que no tanto… no porque sea invierno, porque inclusive así hay gente que se baña en la playa (y no sólo surfistas), sino porque la playa no está tan cerca de la city como creía, ni Bondi ni ninguna otra… así que eso de despertarse, echarse un chapuzón e ir a la playa, sinceramente lo veo difícil.

Definitivamente, luego de vivir tanto la city como los suburbios en fin de semana y día de semana, sumado al hecho de tener amigos acá, pues Syd sí se perfila como un sitio para vivir L

VIERNES 01/07 – 7:00am: salí caminando al tren, vía al aeropuerto para ir a Perth, donde estoy ahorita… ya les contaré qué tal esta ciudad ;)

Hasta el próximo post…