Thank you Jesus for blessing my week, providing me with a wonderful week and a great week to come~
Sunday, you won't believe who I met up with! I really found that Eliza came to Melbourne. Turns out that KPMG did not provide her a sponsorship, so she had to go back to China. Now, she's giving Australia a shot at getting permanent residence. We finally caught up on Sunday after not seeing each other for three years. I never would have thought I'd see her again after visiting her for her graduation haha... She was more of an acquaintance than as a friend. But it was good to catch up with her. She told me and I totally understand her situation that it is hard to settle down in a new country and not knowing anyone here. I'm glad that I was able to make her feel better to have someone here that she knows. I know she'll meet a lot of new friends from school once she settles down! :)
Satie's co-worker told her about this event called Mundo Lingo where people from different backgrounds around Melbourne meet up every Wednesday to practice speaking different languages. Apparently, this group started from Europe and it spread all the way to Australia. Satie and I attended this for the second time this Wednesday. It's more of a place for people to meet new people and practice speaking different languages rather than a place to learn new language. I think this is a great event and they don't charge any money, so I take this opportunity to meet new people and maybe to practice Japanese hehe... I noticed that there's A LOT of Japanese, Koreans, and Latin American people coming to this event to practice speaking English. With that demographic, there's also a lot of creepy otakus coming to this event hoping to meet Japanese girls... @_@; As for me, I'm just taking this opportunity to go out and meet new people instead of sitting at my apartment wasting more time on Reddit I guess haha... There are some genuine people there when I actually go and talk to them. This is also an opportunity for me to develop a bigger courage to go and speak with stranger since there's a reason to start a conversation with people. Though I feel more comfortable sparking up a conversation when I have alcohol in my system... I'll work my way up to being able to do it without alcohol! xD I'm a few awesome people from Japan, Colombia, Spain, and Hong Kong. I plan on continue going until my time here in Melbourne ends.
Care group~ I'm still going. :) I don't even have to make an effort to go. I just simply feel good going every Friday. They are like a family in Melbourne to me. They are genuine people and they give me a sense of belonging; a sense of knowing that someone cares. Although religion is not that big of a deal to me, this family is very valuable to me. Josh kind of stopped going once he started dating Cindy and care group always asking me about Josh's whereabouts. Oh well. Though this family is important to me and gives me a sense of belonging, I feel like they're not the kind of people I would hang out on all occasions. I enjoy care group, church, after church activities, and nature walks. But during Melbourne White Night, I got a different sense of feeling. Satie describe it as what they think is a fun way to spend the night and hang out. I completely love a good night of staying inside and playing board games, but there are times when I like to just go crazy and live the night. Melbourne White Night is a yearly festival held only in Melbourne that started 3 years ago. One night from 7PM to 7AM, the city of Melbourne is lit up with performances, music, art, fashion, decorations, non-stop action for the whole night. People from all over the world come to Melbourne to experience this event. Care group and I walked around for maybe half an hour and in my opinion, it was just another event with an excuse for people to get drunk and do stupid things. The whole city shut off all the streets for the night because just THAT many people come and celebrate which fills the whole city with people. Yes, people are getting drunk and doing crazy things. Yes, I would love to join them and just have a fun and relaxing night. I ended up going with my care group friends and they didn't seem like they enjoy what was going on. In my eyes, they felt a sense of out of place; like people are ridiculous and why are they doing this to themselves. That's when I felt something that I cannot relate to them. It's Melbourne and it's a special event. Enjoy it; whether you're part of the crowd or just on the sidelines watching and judging. But they seemed like it was a mistake coming out so we ended up calling the night off at around 1:30AM. I was going to go back out at 4AM to take pictures, but I valued sleep more, so I decided to just sleep.
My week has been relaxing and great, but I was scolded at work twice this week -- by my manager and supervisor. They say instead of getting faster at working, I've gotten slower. -_- I feel under appreciated. If anything, I do as many beds if not more than some of my colleagues. I do the best performance at cleaning the showers and bathroom. But to them, it's all about how fast I can clean and make beds and not how well I can do them. Due to these scolding, it made work feel like a lot longer. I'd be making beds and these bad thoughts fills my mind thinking "Ugh... I can't believe I have to deal with them. I want to quit." But I know it won't resolve anything if I try to talk back and justify myself. I guess I have slowed down a bit because it's tired A.F. Only until mid-April, so deal with it Henry...
I'm tired. It's 3 AM. This Sunday, Satie and I plan on going to Mornington Peninsula. We're going to invite some friends and rent a car. I invited Eliza. :)
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