The other day I had a pie
for the first time since coming to Australia. I remember really
liking pies and enjoying especially the barbecue sauce, which is very
different from the weird barbecue sauce back in the Netherlands.
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| Although that's tomato sauce. |
It's batter filled with meat and sauce. Perhaps I bought the wrong brand or the wrong kind but it just didn't taste as good as it was in my memory. It got me thinking about all the things I glorified in my mind. I read quite a good article about this concerning culture shock and how when you move somewhere else you glorify your own country and when you move back the opposite happens. I guess having been in Australia before I didn't have the culture shock as much as I could have. But things here are different - shocking right? Clothes and shoes can be very cheap but food and electronics are incredibly expensive. Everything is very far away and it can take up to two hours to drive from one side of the city to the other - luckily I'll be getting a bicycle in a couple of days, too bad you have to wear a helmet here even though it doesn't help at all! Of course the weather is very different here. We've had a few high 30 degrees weeks now and even one week while the air conditioner was broken. I feel a little stuck because I can't do much on my current visa but I hope my actual visa will come through in not too long.
My boyfriend somehow managed to get a job within a week of us arriving here and not only got it within a week he started within a week as well! As long as he gets through his three months trial period it'll be a permanent position, so I very much hope that everything goes well.
