Yes, I've been there with the wolf of wall street.
Just kidding.
What I did these days:
Went to quite a few parties and had a lot of fun with friends, in fact a lot of my friends have birthday from April to May.
I definitely wasn't only up for party, I spent a lot of energy on improving my CV, I went to university career consultant had my CV checked, then I delivered it to many companies, none gave me any response, obviously the biggest hurdle in my job pursuit is my bad Italian.
So I decided, in the end, to seriously study Italian, turn this language into my work language. 4 years ago I bought my Italian textbook "Progetto Italiano 1", for entire 4 years I studied only 4 units out of 11. Every time when I faced grammar rules I pulled myself out, I was frightened by the complicated and strange rules of the sentence structure, the verb conjugation, the gender etc. But after 4 months working experience in hotel with Italians, it feels as if there's a light suddenly appeared and finally I know where and how am I going to make through the tunnel. Everything became much easier after 4 months' 8 hours-a-day's listening and speaking, although initially it was tough, but the good thing was that I was in the environment where I MUST understand what people around me say, taking orders, passing information, basic Italian was very necessary, I picked up many phrases that came really in handy. Not surprisingly these little phrases I picked up during my job made the grammar rules all at once just so clear and obvious, finally my struggle is reduced.
So I picked up the book, after 3 weeks I am already at the last unit of the book. Once I finish this book I can be considered as intermediate level learner, it's a key period the determines if I could successfully transit to proficient speaker of Italian. So maybe I should take a formal course, finally, but on the other hand I really eager to challenge it, challenge the authority of institution, see if I could manage to achieve the same height by studying on my own as the students who sit in classroom.
I've been slacking off on coding, I've been playing around with HTML, CSS, Javascript, C++, but I was never patient enough to go through serious training for any single one of them.
Just out of a sudden I felt the urge to learn photoshop and video editing, well video editor costs really a lot, so does photoshop, but since there are some web based photo editor available for free, I got my hands on photo editing first, started yesterday and it was fun. My first try is shown above, the photo of me on the yacht, yeah, like I was just there, seamless.
I finished watching Lost, two parallel universes caused by the bomb eventually unified? Story about Jacob and the man in black is fascinating, I wonder where did their "mother" come from and where does the magic power of theirs come from in the beginning.
Also finished watching How I Met Your Mother, the ending is a bummer. It's nice to see how Ted eventually ended up with Robin, but killing the mother, making Robin and Barney divorce? It just feels like it's forcing it too much, too absurd and prompt.
Looking for an apartment to rent and turn it into a guest house, put on airbnb, do what I did the best professionally -- running a hotel. Turned out there are so many constraints, permission, rent, house source, finance, taxation... it is already difficult to successfully launch a startup in Italy due to the over complicated regulations, it can be only worse for a foreign student from outside of EU with little or no capital that has not much residency rights here.
So, what can I do eventually, suppose that I'll achieve all the goals I set, learned all the things I wanted to learn: Italian, coding, visual design, video production... what can one do with all those skills?
I'm anxious about my "donation" to the solar charger project, to be honest, it was 1800 Euro went straight away, with that money I might be able to start a little apartment business if lucky, but now I'm counting on someone else to make a great product, and further more I'm counting on this someone could give me help in my career, give me a internship position or something, I don't know, too much unknown. Hope I did something right, for humanity.
I slowed down on reading as I was engaged in other... let's say mental activities, I just couldn't read as fast and as patiently as before, maybe I watched too much tv shows. Finished Better Call Saul season 2, rewatched Breaking Bad from season 3 till the finale.
Trying to write stuff on Medium, no attention whatsoever gained.
Cheers my friend.
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