Summer is here, a few days in advance.
38 degrees, a terrifying hot, the air that forces you to change your address of residence in Hell.
And for this reason that myself, given the demise of its now ex-tenants, decided to make the move to the floor today: consequence of a double shower, all finished the first one thousand journeys on the shirt because bottom-up, second is a nice relaxing time half an hour. Now I
and Silvia, the other girl left, we are waiting for the German couple and another yet unidentified tenant: see!
Personally, if I'll know something soon and from work, I move for sure.
Yesterday I did the 'IELTS examination corresponding to the best-known (in Europe) TOEFL.
arrived at 7.30 am to Randwick Racecourse (I have relaxed a little bit watching the horses that were training), I immediately noticed to be in the minority: say that 98% of the "students" was Asia, an incredible thing.
L 'IELTS consists, like other tests, in four parts: listening, reading, writing and speaking, in that order.
I had taken the previous two days free from work to prepare, and the first two parts seemed the simplest ones, and I was horrified by the writing, especially the second task (to write 250 words on a topic) and by speaking.
Well, obviously, shares reversed: the first two sections were very tricky, with the various pitfalls that characterize these exams. Not to mention that we were in a huge room with a thousand students, and the loudspeakers transmitted the voice of the cd: not the best method for listening, counting that I paid $ 310 for this test, I expected at least the personal headphones!
The last part, the speaking, was carried out in the afternoon, with hours ranging from 1pm to 6pm. Counting that finished the first part of the examination at 12, I was hoping not to be too far and instead ended up at 15.40.
Luck would have it before me had the only Italian of all the tests, so I introduced myself and we've been through all the time, having lunch together. Michele, Cagliari, has spent the last 7 years traveling the world, 5 in Ireland and two in Australia ... congratulations!
nice, pleasant, told me it was the first Italian who met him after argh ... so long, strange! We then met a Colombian girl, Carolina: ignoring the fact that showed my full love of all things from which a word comes out of the castle, we were talking in English for 3 hours, unconsciously preparing the exam. Facebook
exchange contacts, and so on, to do the listening.
Leaving the subject of my examination and, above all, the content with which I dealt with, telling a bunch of nonsense, I remember the examiner, with whom we discussed the fact that he did not have an iPod (my opening sentence: "Nowadays everybody has an iPod ... lol!), I said it was love of Italian music 80's! I took out names like Ivana Spagna, the Rich and Poor, Sugar, Tozzi ... legendary! Idol!
As a conclusion, I do not think that this has gone too bad, now we are waiting the results.
Unfortunately the review has coincided with a trip to the spanish / italian crew of Jervis Bay: me I'm lost, how sad, they were 25! The mustache for Movember
is growing as you can see from the picture, remember that if you want to donate some money to research you need to do is click here .
I happened to walk several times, you see someone with a mustache, a smile and then do one of two exits from a Movember? :)
Last night I went out with Faith and I went to a party at Bondi, on a terrace: skipping forward to dancing with an Australian girl originally from Laos to which I have not asked for the number (imbecille!), we ended up listening to the sea.
so I thought, how lucky I am to be here, it is nice to meet new people, how strong is the thrill to feel alive, what I want to change some things, it will be the explosive excitement of returning home hugging my parents, my sister, my nephew who knows what will be grown. And my friends ... one by one, spend the evening with them, as it once was.
To come back here.
Why, in one way or another, next year myself still live in Australia.
Alby
