9/30/2013

Tea, tea and once more tea

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For a person who has just moved to another country, I have an extremely busy social life. That's why I even have difficulties writing things here, into my blog. But now I've snapped some time from my German study materials and just give another update.
So, what does the tea tea tea mean? I have met many people during the last weekend I had.
My first full week here involved a lot of stay-at home housewife work- cooking cleaning, watching TV and that's about it. Looking for a job as well, of course. I also started to make a carpet myself. With crochet' needle. It still takes some time 'til I finish it, but as soon as it's done, I will upload it here :)
I was also looking for a job and went to EURES office which is almost like unemployement office, but for immigrants. I found out that I need to speak German. Everybody keeps saying that Austrians are picky when it comes to education, language skills, country of origin etc. There's no specific criteria, but finding a job depends on luck and the amount of CV's I send out. Nice. I found out I could work in the post office in the morning from 5-7am, sorting the mail or I could be the mail-delivery guy or milkman. Or the street cleaner. Hmmh. Exactly what I came looking for. Because of this information, Hannes signed me up for an intense language course that actually started today. It lasts for a month, but it's around 25hrs per week + homework. I started it today, I'm in te A1.1 level as I don't know much about grammar. The first class was easy for me, though. Way too easy- I know how to introduce myself and pronounce letters. Fortunately, the lady who's our teacher, told me that it will be like this for 3-4 days and then it will get better.
Going back to the meeting loads of people topic, my weekend was over the top busy. On Saturday we went to visit Judith with Hannes. She just got back here and we went to say hy to her. That was really lovely. We drank lots of tea and just gossiped. We're going on a dinner to her place on Thursday and promised to make a cake. :P After seeing Judith, we hurried back home, where a friend of Hannes was waiting already for us (behind the door as we were a bit late ourselves..... I need to get better at planning my time). We introduced her to Estonia by showing many videos and photos. She loved them. She had just been to Israel so she told about her trip. We drank tea and ate tiramisu that she brought to us.  Oh, I nearly forgot. On Saturday I got my city-bike from another friend of Hannes - she left the country and gave it to us for free. It's a really good and fast bike and in a good state as well. So I'm happy! I got two bikes here now! A proper city-bitch and a normal long-distance bike.
On Sunday we went to meet another Estonian girl who just moved to Graz. She is really nice and lovely! I'm so happy there's such a nice Estonian here with whom I'm sure I will communicate a lot and will become good friends. She is really smart, obsessed with Graz and Austria and knows a lot about this country. She had been here many times before as Erasmus student and also as EVS. She has graduated  from Treffner, so she is a good person to talk to and we have many things in common and know the same kind of people. I'm really happy and left her place with such a good mood. Hannes liked her as well!

So for the next 4 weeks I will be extremely busy with language school and will try to look for a job as well. I am also going to meet some more new people- some all by myself and some are Hannes's friends. And we'll have many dinners with other people. So it seems I won't get bored, which is good. Therefore, I have to apologize if I will lack of blog posts- they will be once a week or so and I won't be talking to people in Skype too often either. But you can still start the conversation with me and I will reply and tell whether I got time or we'll have to talk later.

Besides all the social part outside home, I have to say that so far I'm still all happy and satisfied with over the fact I moved to Graz to live together with Hannes. We can manage and it's not such a lack of privacy that I thought I would have when moving together with a boyfriend. Hannes has to work and go to school and I have school. And we still do our own things in the computer. It's like living with my previous flatmates. Almost. It's just got some more benefits. If you know what I mean ;)

About living together- right now it's still just the beginning of it.... We'll see how it will be in 2-3 months time.

For now I'm happy and active and have to say I don't miss Estonia at all (maybe my friends but not work, for sure not work).

1 comments:

Pluxu™ said...

Hey!
Good to read from you!
Could you please add me to the mailing list so that whenever you post a new post I will get an email?
Please?

Thanks!
And good luck with the language class!

*hugs*