tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36765396757462257602026-05-15T08:29:44.157+10:00anécdotas y comentarios de una arquitecto construyendo una vida mejor...Gabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12917474948499721557noreply@blogger.comBlogger119125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3676539675746225760.post-83744231815932373612013-06-14T05:31:00.001+10:002013-06-14T05:36:13.549+10:00

There are many phases that a migrant goes through when moving into another country until they can say that they have adapted themselves totally to it. To get there you have to embrace and adapt to the culture, to the regulations and policies, to the people, and to the fact that you're not in your country of origin. All of this doesn't sound that difficult, in fact it seems quite obvious...

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After a lot of months that I haven't been writing here in my blog, I'm taking a break from work (yes, I'm working now, in a paper that is due on Monday) to really synthesise my life in this year and some months of my life in Oz. Professional life - job: As you already know, I'm one of the lucky and particular cases of a migrant who found a good job within the firsts 3 months after

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Ok, my previous post, the first one about this important topic (please read it before reading this one), talked about the expectations we have about Australia (or other country we want to “live” in) and about migration. The last issue I addressed was about how we think we’re going to adapt sooooo quick to the new culture and to our new country, and I pointed out that it actually depended on

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From tons of posts I want to write (that I started but left them pending for a while… I know, a very long while), this one is the one I consider most important… so I'd like to break my absence from here talking about a vital issue related to migration, which is the expectation when coming here and the attitudes we take towards the expectations and the reality of migrating to Australia. Why

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This is a really short post. It’s just to acknowledge that my blog has been online for two years now. Two years that have brought a lot and have taken away a lot too. With several ups and downs; with happy moments and not so happy ones; with lots of news and changes, but the most important thing, two years of sharing with all of you all my anecdotes in this path that is migrating to Australia.

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Ok…. in my last post I talked about how I found a job, well, actually started writing about it, but I never finished it, so this is the second and last part on how I found my full time job. Continuing… 4.- The interview: The day of the interview arrived, Thursday 3 May. I had prepared everything during the previous days. I also went to the place where the interview was a couple of days before

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Well, after 82 days (almost 3 months), six job applications and one interview: I GOT A JOB!!!! Now… a friend just asked me last week, before my interview, if I thought I have invested my time properly in the job seeking issue, and my answer at that time was: I’ll tell you after I know whether I got this job or not. As you can imagine, now my answer is: Ok, yes, I think I’ve invested my time

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Well... I know it's been a long time since I wrote in my blog... And I also know that I've owed you this post on how to get a mobile since a very long time. Well, after three attempts of getting a smart phone, well I did, I bought myself an iPhone. Just for you to know, in my case I wanted an iPhone, since in Venezuela I limited myself a lot due to insecurity, and as simple as I didn't want

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After several attempts to change my residential address to Australia so I can vote here in the Venezuelan presidential elections this October (post 1 and post 2), finally today I could do it. As I got here to Australia one of the things I had on my mind I had (should) do before getting a full time job was this: changing my electoral registry, so I started evaluating the options all of them to go

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Ok... last post the only thing I did was write about time. In this one I'm going to address some other aspects (with no particular order) SKILLMAX course:Some people say it's a wonder and you MUST take it... some other people say it's useless to attend to it. MY OPINION so far (just finished my 2nd week there)  is: do it!!! and do it for several reasons: (1) They teach you things about

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Yes, I know... I've been lost; out if the picture; away... whatever you want to call it... it has been a while since I've written on my blog. The truth is I've been busy... doing what? REALLY I don't know!!! Time: here in Oz, I don't know why, but time seems to pass by a LOT faster. In a blink of an eye it's already noon, and in the next one it's 9 pm. All the things I told myself I was going to

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(I wrote this yesterday night in the train coming home) Today I'm arriving home from my first local job. I started today as a tutor (kind of an academic assistant) in the course "Sustainable Development and the Urban Environment" from the Master in Sustainable Development in the UNSW. This is a casual job (only for this trimester) of only 3 hours a week... not enough to support myself but enough

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As I told you in my last post, the day I arrived I applied to get  the TFN and the day after I enrolled myself in Medicare. Well, last Wednesday I got by mail the letter of the Australian Taxation Office with my TFN. Now I can legally get paid when I get a job and I can go to the bank to register my TFN in order to get full interest on my savings account without the government tax

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As I said in my prior post, from now on I'm writing my posts in English, to embrace my arrival at my new country. So I'm telling you the story of my first week here day by day :-), not only as an anecdote, but also as a guide of the first errand you have to do as soon as you get to Oz.  Day 1:Last Sunday 12.2.12 at 10:40am Ellu and I arrived from a 40 hours trip to the Sydney airport. Tired,

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Este post tenía que haberlo escrito hace mucho tiempo así que es muy posible que se me pasen un montón de cosas de lo que realmente hice. Creo que solamente hubo 3 sucesos / aspectos importantes como para escribir en el blog: 1.- LA DESPEDIDA: justo el fin de semana antes de mi partida hice con mis amigos más cercanos y familia una despedida a lo venezolano, es decir una "sanduchada" de pernil

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Hace unos días, estuve hablando con un amigo respecto a mi ida, de los ups and downs y de las cosas y personas que uno extraña con la migración a otras latitudes, y bueno, en esa conversa le comentaba que lo que haría mi migración a Oz PERFECTA sería el poder llevarme a 10 personas. Así que este post está dedicado a esas 10 personas que me llevaría a Oz. (Sin orden específico...) 1.- Mi

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Hola a todos… pues sip, dentro de los preparativos de la mudanza está la cancelación de servicios, dentro de los cuales está la telefonía celular. Posiblemente se pregunten: ¿pero a la pana no le faltan 2 semanas para irse? ¡Qué fiebrua! Jajajajaja… realmente fue un trámite que hice involuntariamente, o mejor dicho, mucho antes de lo planeado. Justo el miércoles en la noche estaba pensando qué

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Posiblemente a muchos les parezca extraño este título de post… sobre todo si son hombres… … pero si son niñas entenderán perfectamente. Hay varias razones para cortarse el cabello antes de la mudanza a Australia… pero les escribo las dos más relevantes desde mi punto de vista: 1.- Generalmente uno tiene su peluquer@ de confianza… en mi caso, mi peluquera, bueno realmente en plural porque tengo 2

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Hola a todos… este post tiene por finalidad ir actualizando todos los preparativos que he adelantado en estos días… así que cosa a cosa: CADIVI Y SITME Bueno, de cadivi les puedo contar que ya me aprobaron el cupo de TC… en menos de una semana lo habían procesado y aprobado, así que una cosa menos de qué preocuparme… El viernes pasado introduje mi carpeta de Efectivo, pues ese era el día 20

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Hola a todos… luego de tanto días escribo un post… tengo de hecho varios pendientes, pero bueno, poco a poco los iré publicando. En vista que quedan 3 semanas para irme a Oz, pues este fin pasado hicimos una despedida / celebración de nuestro grupo: por los que ya están en Oz, por los que nos vamos ya, y por los que se van en Octubre (esperando pronto entrar en DIAC). Publico las fotos de los que

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Buenas buenas!!!!…. Este es el primer post del año, y ¿de qué voy a hablar? pos de dólares!!!! (que turca la pana… jajajajajaja). En fin, ya a pocos días para la partida a Oz, pues hay que seguir con los trámites para la mudanza, y parte de ello es pedir Cadivi. Para los lectores no venezolanos este post no aplica mucho, pues Cadivi es una institución estructurada para el control cambiario que

Gabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12917474948499721557noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3676539675746225760.post-65380142759473940392011-12-31T08:13:00.001+11:002011-12-31T08:13:11.497+11:00

  El año pasado escribí deseándoles a todos: paz, éxito, salud, armonía, felicidad, bienestar, seguridad y muchas visas. Espero que todo eso se haya cumplido, y si no, y si sí también, se los vuelvo a desear este año. Ahora sí, lo que me faltó el año pasado que sí les quiero desear a todos ustedes y a mí misma es: UNA NUEVA VIDA: LLENA DE DIVERSIÓN, CAMBIOS FAVORABLES (a corto,

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  El 28 de diciembre se celebra en varios países a nivel mundial (ya me enteraré si en Oz también), el día de los inocentes. A pesar que en su sentido histórico no es un día en el que sea coherente celebrar ni nada por el estilo, en estos países donde se “celebra” se suelen hacer bromas, unas ligeras y otras pesadas, entre las personas, principalmente entre familiares y amigos. Este año,

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  Este año como bien sabrán, ha venido con muchos altibajos para mí, así como sé que ha sido igual en el caso de varios de ustedes. Es por eso que en estas navidades les deseo paz, tranquilidad, felicidad y sobre todo mucha, pero mucha DIVERSIÓN!!!!!!!!!! Diviértanse y disfruten un montón, y celebren lo bueno y lo que pensamos no tan bueno, pues al final todo lo que nos pasa y lo que

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Hola a todos.... este es un post corto (siempre amenazo con que son cortos y terminan siendo un testamento... sorry about that), que tiene como única finalidad el compartir mi sensación de este momento. Bueno, no sólo de este momento, es más algo desde ayer... señor@s he entrado en pánico. Yo siempre digo que esto de irme a Australia es 90% emoción / 10% miedito... en su momento más

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