Greetings friends,
The time has really flown by at an extreme rate, it has been a month in Belgium. I often think of my friends and wonder how one month overseas would be treating them in a similar situation. Finally, I feel like I am adapting back to the fast paced student life of Leuven. The bike rides are less extreme, as I zip through the small roads at a confident speed.
On the employment front, I am still an unemployed guy living in Europe. I have never been unemployed before, it is like a full time job to be unemployed. Most days offer little routine, I often fill my time appearing busy as I watch the money I worked so hard to save dwindle like chocolate at a dinner party. I have had a few leads, a couple opportunities to perhaps teach English, but those leads seem to be a dead end. Then the bartender job at the Irish pub, where I have spent so much money over the past years, that they could have opened another one on my tab, but again I must wait as I have been told their is stiff competition for the bartender position.
Next week, I am meeting with a Human Rights organization that is starting the exact same programme that I started almost 3 years ago in Lethbridge. Hoping something will come out of this. I have been applying for international positions where the competition provides a needle in a hay stack opportunity, on top of needing to re-write my resume under a EU format, I am going to need a little luck.
8:30am - Wake up against my will, after tapping the alarm snooze a number of times, but knowing that productivity often occurs in the morning hours.
9:00am - Eat Breakfast, while watching old episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm and It's Always Sunny in Philadalphia. Mostly this is a Muesli Breakfast with Milk that tastes off to me.
10:00am - Yes!! It took me one hour to eat my breakfast and get motivated, now that I am feeling like peering my head out of our tiny flat to catch some fresh air, I head to the Sport Fitness.
10:30am - I run around a track while listening to Crocodile Rock, Irish Tunes and some other self-motivating music, then I bike home.
11:30am - Shower and get ready to work.
12:00pm - Lunch, sometimes I grab a panini, or a sandwich from Alma cafeteria, then I eat it alone and ponder life, but I try to enjoy this sandwich.
1:00pm - Time to get to work, very excited to start working - I apply for a couple jobs that appear like I have a generous %5 chance of getting and then feeling satisfied, I start adding beers to the website, we are at over 1,600 beers, as I am adding I continue to convince myself that at least I have my website to work on.
3:00pm - Go to Pangaea International House and sit down have a cola and wait for the maybe 6 people I know to walk into the place, so that I can have a conversation because boredom has got the better of me, so in anticipation I just continue to add some beers.
6:00pm - Supper Time - Hanne and I sit down to eat.
7:00pm - ????? - Anonymous (No concrete plans in this time frame, mostly just whatever happens will happen). Like the photo above (EVENING ACTIVITY).
The job search continues, my friends Derek and Donny arrive to Europe on the time that the wedding would have taken place, but instead we will be in Amsterdam. Belgium is an amazing country, the culture here is great and I am trying to stay optimistic about finding a job soon, as I continuously fight off jobless depression.
Keeping Faith,
Roy
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