STRONG FEELINGS FEELINGS!
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I think in Australia the time is proportionate to the speed of kangaroos ... It is technically possible that two months have passed since I set foot in this fragrant land! Two months, you realize?! Not me!
A post to send a little 'my feelings, my emotions, even if it is not so easy to describe with common words. Only those who have experienced first-hand experience perhaps can understand me through.
A sense of freedom that fills your heart, veins and lungs when you breathe. The knowledge that they do what they want, they are masters of myself now more than ever, no influence from anyone. The feeling of having everything under control. Back home in the evening after work, tired, aching legs and mind heavy to try to understand everything that people ask you, but happy and carefree. Delighted in watching every night, painting the beautiful lights of the skyscrapers that are reflected in the river and thinking "please do not wake me, I will continue to dream." A sense of inner confidence and outward never tried before. A city that do not know, but it seems to me to know all along. Laura A I've never known before. A
feel at ease, a feeling of being at home, like I've lived here ever since. The desire to change, to discover, to see, do not know the meaning of the word "routine". So much so that in a week I have a flight waiting for me to Melbourne. New places to discover, new friends, new house, new job. It changes everything for the umpteenth time, but I feel this electricity in the veins that makes me upset all over again and again. Of course, I will miss Brisbane: my flatmates, work, Roman and other friends at the restaurant. But it is not comparable to the curiosity to know the person that I will close during the flight or the desire to discover new horizons and falling in love with other views. To live is to risk it! And then he
, less than a week ago, a magical meeting that will always remain in my heart and I will remember with a romantic Brisbane smile. Understand that you can communicate with different languages \u200b\u200band cultures, eyes and body, and remain stunned by this magical atmosphere that breathes with him and understand that you're expressing yourself a thousand times better than you did before, in Italian . I will miss, I miss his sweetness and his being able to understand me, but now is the fate to decide for me and I will not change its course. As they say, time will tell ...
Of course, I would liar to say that I miss nothing about my old life. I miss many pieces of the puzzle: my parents, my family and my wonderful cousins, you can play with them and tighten them tightly, Italian food, pasta and baked gnocchi of my mom, my friends, hang out with them laughing until you have tears in their eyes, get drunk and sing in the car Braulio till 6 in the morning, evenings at the trocar and the Jazz and the coffee bar, gym and step classes and yoga ... I could go on hours! But all that really exists, and I know that when I come back I can rebuild my puzzle every time I want, but now there is still time, I still keep dreaming. Please do not wake me!
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AUSTRALIAN RESTAURANT ITALIAN RESTAURANT VS
1 First round: on the red corner "Australian Restaurant" On the blue corner ... "Italian Restaurant" ... Who will be the winner? There's no doubt ... "Italian Restaurant"!
I decided to write a post dedicated to the differences I noticed between Italian restaurants and restaurants in Australia, both in terms of food and at the level of workplace organization. I recommend you continue reading, I think it is very interesting and funny at the same time!
several years in Italy working in restaurants, hotels, bars and disco-pub think I've gained some experience, and I can say that all Italian clubs I had worked in management and organization of internal working very strict and orderly, but at the same time very flexible, with the possibility of self-management by the waiter (in this case me!).
The main difference between absurd and Italian restaurants Australian restaurants in Italy is that any restaurant or bar that is worthy of his name, the numbering of the tables: the waiter is very simple and straightforward to track the table at which to carry the flow . "A daisy in nine!" And now ... Tac ... the pizza will be delivered to nine. In Australia it does not work (at least in the bar). I think there is some exercise at the base of "brain training "to develop the intellectual skills of the waiter, the customer orders directly at his lunch, pays his bill and went to sit at a table at will. From here nothing too strange. But now comes the "nice" to the case will be delivered to the client like a placeholder with a number that will support him on the table where you sit. That will be the number of the table, at that precise moment, that precise customer. When his dinner is ready to turn the hapless waiter will run half an hour for the room (if you're lucky this is not too large) and find the number to which to deliver the scope ... Absurd is not it?!?! A waste of time inconceivable! It is not as convenient as each table has its own number regardless of the person sitting in the same?? But ... I'd be almost tempted to give this suggestion! Fortunately, the restaurant where I work does not happen, each table has its own number, as in Italy! But there are many things that I still do not square (speaking in reference to the restaurant where I work) ... And what I find really inconceivable!
1 - During the service, the waiters is granted only drink soft drinks (water, pepsi, lemonade) in plastic cups (do not know what will happen if I tried to use a glass! But ...). Coffee and tea are at the discretion of the boss. Fruit juices, iced tea, milk drinks are charged at full price!
2 - Same thing for the food ... The waiter during the break or the end of the service would have lunch (or dinner) to pay. Yes you read right! But "fortunately" has a 50% discount on pizza, pasta and salads. For all other types of course has a 20% discount. Do you realize?!?! If you want to eat, I pay! Never seen such a thing in Italy!
3 - At the organizational level, the waiters who take orders each have their own section (from table X to table Y). And since all normal. But what happens? That there is a barman! And then when all the waiters take orders for drinks find themselves passionately behind the counter, each preparing his drinks for their tables ... What a mess!
4 - Topic "working time". Usually the services for runners like me, have the following hours: lunch from 12 to 16 and dinner from 18.30 until the end of service. What is absurd and that makes me terribly angry, that is rarely very beginning this time! For example, yesterday I had to start at 12 noon and I was tip, ready to go. But, alt! I spent an hour sitting at the table to see how the Australians holding a fork and only one o'clock I started working ... I wonder ... why? Well, because the restaurant was semi-hollow! Do you realize? It's not my problem if there are people, if my schedule is, it must be that! And so it happened to me many times ... You start half an hour after the time fixed or not ... But ... No comment ...
5 - Is there a figure in the kitchen that I did not understand what "technical name" could have the ... His job basically is to say the names of the dishes to the waiters like me who have to bring the course to the tables ... It is enough! Yes, maybe sometimes puts seal on some dishes or something ... But no more! And I think that after one, two, three times a person with a minimum of intelligence can know a daisy from a fanciful ... But ...
At the moment I can think of other nonsense ... But I think these are enough! Ah, here's another thing that is absolutely normal and very common is to ask a take-away container when you have finished eating their reach ... In Italy if you do such a thing is seen as a starving, but nearly here everyone does! And frankly I find it a very intelligent, so you will avoid many unnecessary waste!
Even the pace of work are much more relaxed here ... soooooo Unlike Italy, the people sitting at the table does not asks you to sort of pissed off when waiting for ten minutes ... But wait, waiting, waiting, waiting. Just think 'that two weeks ago I was out to dinner with my sister in a restaurant and we waited an hour (an hour but really!) Before the arrival of our pizza! And there have been three other tables besides ours .... I do not want to know what they were doing in the kitchen!
In any case I think when you live in a country that is not yours you have to adapt to the rules and the conduct of this ... So it's useless to get angry if I do start one hour after eating or if I can not free a poor daisy ... These are the rules? Ok, that's right! I think it's definitely good and constructive to adapt to any institution, rule or situation you are proposing before. When I get back home over to my backpack, I have another bag, much more important and that can never be undone ... A cultural baggage that will stay with me for life!
1 First round: on the red corner "Australian Restaurant" On the blue corner ... "Italian Restaurant" ... Who will be the winner? There's no doubt ... "Italian Restaurant"!
I decided to write a post dedicated to the differences I noticed between Italian restaurants and restaurants in Australia, both in terms of food and at the level of workplace organization. I recommend you continue reading, I think it is very interesting and funny at the same time!
several years in Italy working in restaurants, hotels, bars and disco-pub think I've gained some experience, and I can say that all Italian clubs I had worked in management and organization of internal working very strict and orderly, but at the same time very flexible, with the possibility of self-management by the waiter (in this case me!).
The main difference between absurd and Italian restaurants Australian restaurants in Italy is that any restaurant or bar that is worthy of his name, the numbering of the tables: the waiter is very simple and straightforward to track the table at which to carry the flow . "A daisy in nine!" And now ... Tac ... the pizza will be delivered to nine. In Australia it does not work (at least in the bar). I think there is some exercise at the base of "brain training "to develop the intellectual skills of the waiter, the customer orders directly at his lunch, pays his bill and went to sit at a table at will. From here nothing too strange. But now comes the "nice" to the case will be delivered to the client like a placeholder with a number that will support him on the table where you sit. That will be the number of the table, at that precise moment, that precise customer. When his dinner is ready to turn the hapless waiter will run half an hour for the room (if you're lucky this is not too large) and find the number to which to deliver the scope ... Absurd is not it?!?! A waste of time inconceivable! It is not as convenient as each table has its own number regardless of the person sitting in the same?? But ... I'd be almost tempted to give this suggestion! Fortunately, the restaurant where I work does not happen, each table has its own number, as in Italy! But there are many things that I still do not square (speaking in reference to the restaurant where I work) ... And what I find really inconceivable!
1 - During the service, the waiters is granted only drink soft drinks (water, pepsi, lemonade) in plastic cups (do not know what will happen if I tried to use a glass! But ...). Coffee and tea are at the discretion of the boss. Fruit juices, iced tea, milk drinks are charged at full price!
2 - Same thing for the food ... The waiter during the break or the end of the service would have lunch (or dinner) to pay. Yes you read right! But "fortunately" has a 50% discount on pizza, pasta and salads. For all other types of course has a 20% discount. Do you realize?!?! If you want to eat, I pay! Never seen such a thing in Italy!
3 - At the organizational level, the waiters who take orders each have their own section (from table X to table Y). And since all normal. But what happens? That there is a barman! And then when all the waiters take orders for drinks find themselves passionately behind the counter, each preparing his drinks for their tables ... What a mess!
4 - Topic "working time". Usually the services for runners like me, have the following hours: lunch from 12 to 16 and dinner from 18.30 until the end of service. What is absurd and that makes me terribly angry, that is rarely very beginning this time! For example, yesterday I had to start at 12 noon and I was tip, ready to go. But, alt! I spent an hour sitting at the table to see how the Australians holding a fork and only one o'clock I started working ... I wonder ... why? Well, because the restaurant was semi-hollow! Do you realize? It's not my problem if there are people, if my schedule is, it must be that! And so it happened to me many times ... You start half an hour after the time fixed or not ... But ... No comment ...
5 - Is there a figure in the kitchen that I did not understand what "technical name" could have the ... His job basically is to say the names of the dishes to the waiters like me who have to bring the course to the tables ... It is enough! Yes, maybe sometimes puts seal on some dishes or something ... But no more! And I think that after one, two, three times a person with a minimum of intelligence can know a daisy from a fanciful ... But ...
At the moment I can think of other nonsense ... But I think these are enough! Ah, here's another thing that is absolutely normal and very common is to ask a take-away container when you have finished eating their reach ... In Italy if you do such a thing is seen as a starving, but nearly here everyone does! And frankly I find it a very intelligent, so you will avoid many unnecessary waste!
Even the pace of work are much more relaxed here ... soooooo Unlike Italy, the people sitting at the table does not asks you to sort of pissed off when waiting for ten minutes ... But wait, waiting, waiting, waiting. Just think 'that two weeks ago I was out to dinner with my sister in a restaurant and we waited an hour (an hour but really!) Before the arrival of our pizza! And there have been three other tables besides ours .... I do not want to know what they were doing in the kitchen!
In any case I think when you live in a country that is not yours you have to adapt to the rules and the conduct of this ... So it's useless to get angry if I do start one hour after eating or if I can not free a poor daisy ... These are the rules? Ok, that's right! I think it's definitely good and constructive to adapt to any institution, rule or situation you are proposing before. When I get back home over to my backpack, I have another bag, much more important and that can never be undone ... A cultural baggage that will stay with me for life!
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