by Chris
on February 21, 2009

No matter where you live, you probably have heard of the Black Saturday fires in Victoria, of the destruction, the devastation, the lost 209 lives, may God rest their souls. I don’t know personally anyone who has suffered from those fires and yet start crying every time I think about this terrible nightmare.
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by Chris
on February 18, 2009

The levels of excitement were kind of hard to describe for a number of reasons.
First, the insecurity faded away. They have hired me and that means that my qualifications and experience count in this country. Having a job also meant feeling relieved money-wise; it meant that we stop eating away our savings and start living on the money we earn. And another reason to be happy was that I found that job before Christmas – people are taking it easy during the festive season and the moth after, many go away on holidays, so if I wasn’t lucky to get hired before Christmas, I could have spent another 2 months looking for a job. My partner also found a job, 4 days before Christmas and felt even luckier than I did
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