Moving to Australia!

[Kyriakos]

Well, not quite myself, but a story of mine is possibly going to be published in an australian-greek diasporic journal

They will probably also translate it for their bilingual pages, so if that happens i will link to it so you can read if you want to.

So, the Antipodes may become my first venture outside Greece in the realm of letters...

 

[NedimNapoleon]

Congratulations!

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

Very cool. Australians and Greeks get on famously and I'll be sure to read it.

 

[Kyriakos]

Thank you both

That journal may be a good way to break (although probably only barely) to a new reading public as well. I mostly see it as a symbolic move though.

 

[Cutlass]

Good luck with that.

 

[Kyriakos]

Thanks.

I just sent a couple more letters to magazines of London (Greek language/bilingual ones). Will report if there is any similar development there as well

 

[Leonel]

Congrats! I sort of dream about moving to Australia myself. A place where their first language is mine yet still has a wild frontier for me to get away from it all in like the Pacific Northwest, except less rainy

 

[Kyriakos]

I imagine that Australia has its own set of literary symbols and mythology, with the great wilderness which amounts to most of the massive country.
I am not sure if i could actually live there though since i view Europe again as a symbol. I am sure life is great in Australia, but ideally i would remain in Europe.
My stories are less travel-shy though

 

[IdiotsOpposite]

Congrats! I sort of dream about moving to Australia myself. A place where their first language is mine yet still has a wild frontier for me to get away from it all in like the Pacific Northwest, except less rainy

Try actually going east of the Cascades. It gets less rainy.

 

[Old Hippy]

I imagine that Australia has its own set of literary symbols and mythology, with the great wilderness which amounts to most of the massive country.
I am not sure if i could actually live there though since i view Europe again as a symbol. I am sure life is great in Australia, but ideally i would remain in Europe.
My stories are less travel-shy though

Melbourne is a very European stlye city and has one of the largest greek populations

Melbourne has the world's third largest Greek-speaking population after Athens and Thessaloniki (Melbourne's Greek sister city),

and we are expecting it to increase due to our labour shortage (in some areas) and the current EU situation

 

[Kyriakos]

I know that, and surely it is now a lot better than here- probably has been for quite a long time. But i am not sure if i could get used to living away from this continent. It means something more to me than a mere geographical note. It represents the birthplace of my civilization (other european countries share this too, at least those which took the mantle of Greece and Rome, like England/Britain and France).

So it is for sentimental reasons that i do not think i could really feel happy in Australia. If i am forced to leave Thessalonike i will probably just try to return to the UK.

 

[Leonel]

Try actually going east of the Cascades. It gets less rainy.

Yeah but there's nothing interesting other than the terrain there. I'd go to the high desert to visit, not live.

 

[Save_Ferris]

Yeah but there's nothing interesting other than the terrain there. I'd go to the high desert to visit, not live.

You underestimate the desert greatly!

Spoiler Albuquerque, the most beautiful city in the world :

 

[Arwon]

Congrats! I sort of dream about moving to Australia myself. A place where their first language is mine yet still has a wild frontier for me to get away from it all in like the Pacific Northwest, except less rainy

Hahaha the wild frontier will kill you

 

[Kyriakos]

Moved one step further with one Greek paper of London, they have just recieved my story and claimed that they will review it and if it is found interesting they will publish it

 

[Traitorfish]

Nicely done!

 

[Kyriakos]

Thank you Traitorfish

I am hopeful for two reasons regarding this paper (or rather three)

-I sent one of my best works

-The story is related to the crisis

-The fact that i am a graduate from a reasonably good english university may play a positive role

 

[Leonel]

Hahaha the wild frontier will kill you

Well it wouldn't be a wild frontier if it didn't!

You underestimate the desert greatly!

Spoiler Albuquerque, the most beautiful city in the world :

I meant in Washington state, sorry for the lack of definition.

 

[Kyriakos]

There has been a very Drastic development...

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=463625

 

[Jehoshua]

Kudo's. And Arwon is right that the wild frontier of Australia is quite likely to kill you either by heat in the day, frigid cold at night, venemous serpents at all hours or starvation/dehydration over time.