New ideas pass through three periods...........

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1) It can't be done.
2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing.
3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

I talked with my friend, who hanged out with me in China today, ust to hear the great news. It's not anything big, but it made me so excited!
When I was in China, one friend asked me to help them put with one thing. He and his friends were opening a small hotel, rather hostel, if I may say. Even before opening the rooms were somehow reserved. It's a mystery how they conducted advertising, but no matter what it was, it worked. They opened a hostel-hotel in a nice style, the interior and everything was done by them personally. Those friends have two different shops already, one is called 木里 and is a nice cafe, decorated in a very raw style. Another one, which was actually the first thing they started was a small flower shop, whichh luckily was located close to the place where I was staying in China. Actually this small flower shop started everything.

The Flower Shop.

Everything that I experienced in Xiamen, started from this small Flower Shop. People I met, places I saw, friends I made. It's all thanks to this special place. The name is 花骡子, which is partly a name of an owner. But of course, Chinese names have their meanings, so if I were to translate it literally, it means Flower Mule (you know, Mule like an animal).

So, what I was saying is, the guys who started the Flower Shop, opened a hotel this time. And I suggested them to put it on hostelworld.com website to get some foreign guests too. They conceded and I was asked to help with correcting English desciption of the hotel. And so I did it. I uploaded photos, added my description and I was waiting for my friend to do something more with it.

My time in China passed by quickly, and everyone forgot about hostelworld. As I said, the hotel's business was doing quite good, but it was popular mostly by Chinese tourists.

Here is the hostelworld page about my friends' hostel. It's called Shop No 2, as it was created in a style of Flower Shop, which is the first shop. The interior design is very unique and a bit of an Asian style but a bit modern in a way. It's hard to explain in words, the photos on hostelworld might not be enough either, but click HERE and check it out yourself!

And the good news I heard today was that the first reservation came! Apparently my friend added updated rates and prices on the website, and today they recieved the very very first reervation, made by two UK girls. I already gave some piece of advice to my friend, making him angry almost. Well, but the first foreign guests! It's going to be a big day! 13th of February!

Today is a good day~!

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Today, I managed to succeed in a tiny, little thing, which is getting the job. I was having training for a few days and today I had to write a test, which was supposed to check whether I am ready to work. For 79,5% I am ready, it seems. After getting my results, I was told about all details concerning contract and job itself.

My favourite place in Japan - Osaka Castle.

To be honest, it's not a good job. I mean, it's not anything big. But, it's a job connected with what I want to do, so I consider it as a small step towards the things I decided for myself. So! Wish me good luck!

I still hope I will be able to move to another workplace, where I had an interview at the beginning of January. It was for a hotel, which is still not opened, so even though they were interviewing people, they could offer employement only from the end of March, which means that till March I won't know if I go the job or not.

The contract that I am to sign soon is for 3 months, till 26th of March. Till then I can concentrate on what I'm doing now, but in March I will have to make another decision. Should I stay or should I go?

That's how the kindergarden children are taking their first steps...... to take over the Osaka Castle.

This is a nice quote, which I found somewhere by accident:

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."

At night, when the sky is full of stars and the sea is still you get the wonderful sensation that you are floating in space.

Phew. Stressful day. I don't know why video talk through Skype makes me nervous every time, no matter who I talk with. But this time I wasn't sure if the guy I'm talking with will understand me. Fortunately his English was even better than mine, so it was okay. I talked with a TN manager from AIESEC from China. He even let me talk with his flatmate. To my surprise the guy was saying "I want to go to Poland, I want to go to Poland". I was happy for a moment, till I heard him saying to the other guy "because the girls are pretty". And here I thought he might like Poland because of its... I don't know... culture?

The department store around 10 pm in the evening. Yeah, that's when I finish work too.

After work when I was dashing through the freezing cold night busy with my own thoughts I looked up to the sky. It looked so beautiful. I think that if only people had more time to observe sky, they would be so much happier. Because just one glance up to the sky, made all the bad and depressing thoughts vanish from my head.

I think that as long as I can see the stars, it doesn't matter where I am. Be it Japan, China, New Zeland, Australnia, Poland, Germany.... Whatever. Sky is always with me!

Day 22 of 30: COMPLETE!