How it comes to my mind to moved to Australia ?

Well is a long story, basically everythings is thanks to my friend Perla that we met in Riga while we were living there, she propose me to go to Australia together when we will finished the university so after a year more less, because we started to think about that during the spring 2018, we bought the ticket for the 31st of March 2019 to Bangkok and from there we supposed to go to Australia after our degree trip, but unfortunately I did graduate in the same year as my friend. We went to Thiland together and I stayed a bit longer in Indonesia alone and than I graduate on September 2019 and during the summer I couldn’t work because I was doing the last exams and the thesis. So I started the first year of the master at university and I did an Erasmus program in Paris that permit me to move to Australia after beacuse during the Erasmus the university gaves u financial support so I saved money to move dto Australia. In November 2019 while I was leaving in Paris I realized that I wanted to go to Australia even if my friend Perla she just moved to Melbourne without waiting me because she quit her job in October and our timing wasn’t matching anymore but I still wanted to go alone, so during the black Friday I booked the ticket till Abu Dhabi on the 12th Febrary 2020 and then during the Christmas holiday on the 10th of January I get the WHV thanks god immeditaely and when it was garanted I booked the rest of the journey from Dubai to Brisbane.

Why I choose Brisbane?

Always when I was thinking about Australia I wanted to move to Sydney but always everyone told that is too expensive and than the winte was coming in February and I just passed a winter in Europe so I wanted a summer and plus one of my crush she was living in Sydney so my gf doesn’t want me to go in Sydney at all, and she lived in Brisbane in the past so the suggested me that for the weather the life cost and everything, and finally she conviced me. That was a really good choice because after a month come up the COVID-19 and being in Queensland it was the best the best place to be to escape from the cities and moved to the country-side.

One way flight to Australia

My thinkng on board: “ I’m too tires that i can’t even understanding what’s going on and where I’m, probably I will realize that I’m in Australia the day after “

It was a really long flight from Italy to Australia, I took five plane first stop in Turkey second in Abu Dhabi that was amazing with other few days in Dubai. Than on the 22nd of February at 10:55 am Dubai – Bangaluru with Indigo 16:15 pm. That was my first time in India actually just for few hours than at 21:15 pm Bangaluru Singapore 04:30 am. Which it was my second time in Singapore in less then a year something too emotional because it’s one of my fav city in the world. And from here on the 23rd of February it will start my adventure in Australia.

THE FIRST MONTH IN AUSTRALIA

DAY 1 – Sunday 23.02.2020

I landed in Singapore 4:30 am I did all the controls and they asked me if I was in China since the situation wasn’t the best for th COVID-19 then I passed al the controls I pick up the big lugagge and I went in front of the terminal 1 where is the waterfall. I chilled and charged the phone there and unfortunately I coulden’t see the waterfall working because it’s started at 10 am and my flight was at 10:10 am so I did all the control and I bought a breakfast and then I waited to depart. Finally this supposed to be the best flight because it was with Emirates airlines but is was absolutely tires I watched the biography of Alexander McQeen and Coco Chanel and finally at 7:45 I landed in Brisbane I waited my lugagge and then I went to buy the train ticket to the city center, that it was around 20$ and 20 minutes by train . Fortunately the Hostel that I booked “Nomad Hostel” was just next to the train station the central station actually so I ust needed to cross the street and then I enter in the hostel I did the check in which I booked four nights till Thursday and then I went stright to sleep. Ufortunately after two hours of sleeping I woke up that I wasn’t feeling well totally so I spent the night in the hostel down stairs and going to the toilet every few minutes because I was vomit all the time then before the surise I could sleep again.

FIRST WEEK IN BRISBANE

DAY 2 – Monday 24.02.2020

( Night at: Nomad Hostel, started to work for accomodation in Housekeeping )

I woke up feeling very bad without any energy and skinnier then usual so I just put all my energy together and I went to the supermarket to buy fruits that was the only things that I could eat and I walked till Eagle street to see the river and see if I like or not the city but the weather was too hot that I coulden’t even breath so I come back to the Hostel and I spent all day there front of the laptop trying to do all the document to live in Australia like the Tax File Number, and finishing my CV.

DAY 3 – Tuesday 25.02.2020

I tryed to woke up a bit earlier bus was impossible so when I woke up I went straight to officeworks in Adelaide street to print the CV and I started to give it aroud but I quickly understood that for Hotels I could only apply online and also for few shops. So after I come back to the hostel without any enegy and I strated to apply online totally desperate and then I tryed to go to sleep early to take the Australian timing without jet – leg.

DAY 4 – Wednesday 26.02.2020

I woke up kind of early around 10 am, with more energy and feeling better, so I started to eat againg step by step and then I went to print other CV and give them around all noon and then I went to a bar really nice next to the river called ” Friday’s” and they immediateley asked me to do the trial at 5 pm so I went back to the Hostel I change my clothes and I come back for the trial, I worked more less three hours and I was totally destroit because I wasn’t feeling good jet. Then I come back to the Hostel I stayed all evening at the phone with my gf that we argued a little bit because I had a propouse foe an interview in a stip club, then I went to the club down to the Hostel called ” Down Under ” where I supposed to meet the french people that invite me but I couldn’t find them so I went to sleep.

DAY 5 – Thursday 27.02.2020

I woke up early in the morning and I changed bedroom and I extended my staying at the hostel for one week, and I stayed in the cheapest room, 8 bed dorm. In the noon I walked throught the Valley and other area of Brisbane to give CV around there, than I chill a bit but becomes too late that I coulden’t go to the supermarket so I just went at the central station a I grab few sandweches for dinner and I went to sleep.

DAY 6 – Friday 28.02.2020

I went to the supermrket in the morning I bought a lot of food for all the day and than after lunch I went at the Centrelink where I did the Medicalcare which is an insurance in case I need to go to the hospital and than before going back home I stopped in South Bank to take few pictures and discover the area. I went back to the hostel and the guys at the hostel invite me to go out in a Club so I went in the Valley at the “The Met” not the best Night Club in Brisbane but not even the worse one, and we enjoyed the night there all together.

DAY 7 – Saturday 29.02.2020

I woke up early because at 10 am I had th appointment in the bank to aopen the bank account at the Commonwealth one of the most popular in Australia and than I spent all the day in the Hostel depressing I trying to find a job.

DAY 8 – Sunday 01.03.2020

I woke up early I went to catch the train at the central station to go to surfer Paradise that’s around two hours of travelling and changing train as weel. Onec I get there I went to Mcdonald for lunch and than I went straight to the beach walking around and taking pictures, I didn’t even swim because I realize that the waves are too strong like in Brazil so I just touch the water with mt foot basically na dthan around five I come back to Brisbane again by train and too tired I went straight to sleep one I get in the Hostel.

SECOND WEEK IN BRISSIE

DAY 9 – Monday 02.03.2020

I woke up late I had lunch and then I went to give CV and talking to people for find a job, unfortunately nothing sure and before dinner I had an other interview to work in a strip club which it cost me a huge fight with my gf after when I went back to the Hostel and I called her, it wasn’t my intention to work there but still it was the only place that call me for an interview after the “Friday’s Bar” so I just went there and I tryed and they explained me in what consist the job and I did a trial there just for an hour but there wasn’t customers so we just talk all together and that’s it.

DAY 10 – Tuesday 03.02.2020

I spent all the day at the laptop trying to the the RSA which I need it to serve alcool in Australia and than around 5 pm I went out to the hostel for a walk till Cangaroo Point to take few picture of Brisbane by night and discover new places of the city. Back to the hostel I spent the night with my roomates an Australian guy and a British girl which we talked a had fun a bit.

DAY 11 – Wednesday 04.03.2020

Wednesday morning at 10 am I did the trial to start to work in the hostel doing the housekeeping service for my rent, because I asked the day before and they told me yes so I just strated immediately because my rent was paid till Thursady. After I chilled a bit and I went to do the trial at “Mr & Mrs G” Bar in Eagle street that I had this trial thanks to my gf that she was living in Brisbane and she knows few people. I liked the place and fortunately I get the job super happy I come back to the Hostel.

DAY 12 – Thursday 05.03.2020

Also today I worked in the housekeeping from 10 am till 2 pm like the day before and it was super difficult because I didn’t used to worked before so i found it very hard actually and than I rest a bit and the evening I went to the ” Enoteca 1889 Restaurant” for a trial which the manager contact me through Facebook and also there I get the job.

DAY 13 – Friday 06.03.2020

I slept a bit in the morning and I chilled basically and at 5pm I went to work at the Restaurant as a Hostess which it was the pèosition that they hire me, basically hostess during the week end and during the week waitress so I was very counfused how to combine the jobs all three together but than the week after they told me that I couldn’t be a waitress there so I just did the week ends.

DAY 14 – Saturday 07.03.2020

I slept all morning and then in the noon I went to work at the Enoteca 1889 Restaurant like the day before and the previous one as well which I did the trial.

DAY 15 – Sunday 08.03.2020

Sunday it was my day off so I tired to woke up early and even if the weather wasn’t the best I went to the Brisbane City garden to explore it and the I come back at the hostel I changed agin bedroom the put me in the staff room number 222 and then in the late noon I went to give CV around in the Valley and then I went to sleep early because the the after I will woke up at 7 am to work in the hostel.

THIRD WEEK IN BRISSIE

So Monday I started the diet and my job plan was almost done, but almost. I did the cleaning at the Hostel from 7 am till 1:30 pm and in noon food shopping and rest later then sleep early for the next day of cleaning in the hostel waking up at 6:30 am like the day before the same shift and in the evening at the restaurant I worked as a waitress but than they told me that can keep me only as a Hostess so only Friday and Saturday approximately 8 hrs a week only infortunately. Wednesday I worked at the bar from 11am and Thursday the same from 11 am during the afternoon nothing basically just looking for jobs and trying to organize everything and looking for a gym and buy shoes for the work. Friday I worked in the bar and in the evening at the restaurant and the day after I slept a bit in the morning I did the grocery shopping and than I went to work in the restaurant. Sunday it wasn’t the best day was cloudy and raining like all the rest of the week so a bit depressing but anyway I tried to go out to drink something at the Dandy’s Rooftop bar but I didn’t like it so I just went back home trying to rest a bit and do some work at the laptop.

FOURTH WEEK IN BRISSIE

On Monday I went to do the trial at the “Botero House Caffe” they said tome yes but due to the Covid-19 there aren’t a lot of people out the city step by step started to get empty like in Italy and before China. Back to the Hostel I clean it and I just started a bit later but everything was fine, Tuesday it was the same I clean the Hostel from 7am till 1:30 pm and than I went to sleep a bit depressed for the situation and scared that Australia can become like Europe. Wednesday I went to work at the bar there wasn’t any customers unfortunately so I could feel the situation that wasn’t going that well unfortunately, after I went to do an other interview in the Valley and once I get there they told me no because they weren’t hiring new people due to the Virus so totally desperate I went back to the Hostel and all the staff of the Hostel we went at the Down Under the Club just downstairs to play ping pong and drink a beer and than I went up to the kitchen and I started to drink with the Italian group and the Brazilian girls and after dinner we come back downstairs at the Club and we continued to drink till 3 am even if I had to woke up early the day after to go at work. Thursday I just did two hours at the bar fortunately in one hand because I was very tired from the night before then I come back to the Hostel and we went all together in South Bank to enjoy the good weather and play football all together and than we eat and we went to sleep. Friday my day at work was cancelled so I woke up early and I went to Soth Bank again but this time alone to enjoy the sunny weather and try to get tan and take few picture than I spent the noon at the laptop thinking about what can I do and than I spent the night on the phone with my gf. Saturday I slept a bit and then I went to buy some food lunch time and than I did a nap and I went to the bar Eleven Rooftop and than I spent the night at the rooftop of the Hostel celebrating the birthday of one of our Finnish mate and than I went to sleep. Sunday I decided to visit the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary a bit out of Brisbane around 30 minutes by bus and the cost to enter is around 25$ but is totally worth it I like it so much was an amazing experience, I spent all day taking pictures of the Koala and staying with Cangaroo and Wallaby than I went back home and I rest a bit.

Summary of the first month in Australia:

• 1st week looking for a job desperately
• 2nd week found jobs and doing trials
• 3rd week start to work few hours but every day
• 4th week losing the jobs due to the shotdown for the Covid-19

So the only solution was moving to the countryside and do the farm job because at the moment was the only possibility, and the only way to the money my all plan changed, so I was really confused and frustrate but I tried to adapt myself in this situation.