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What life has in store
This morning I woke earlier than I hoped I would, with one main, loud thought drumming inside me – Surely i’m meant to move countries soon. Thoughts about moving countries isn’t a new one for me, they visit me from time to time, sometimes in conjunction with thoughts around other big life changes, like career.…
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My Experience in Australia’s Mandatory Hotel Quarantine
It’s been 14 days of living in this tiny hotel room all alone. I don’t mind the room, I’ve always preferred smaller, cozier spaces than large spacious ones, the only thing it’s missing is a window that opens. There’s a window with a view of Sydney’s tall skyscrapers, but unfortunately it’s locked shut. To my…
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Belonging, During a Pandemic and Beyond
I am what many would call a ‘halfie’, meaning that my mother is from one ethnicity and my father from another. In the past, when people asked me about my nationality, I never liked saying that I was half Armenian and half Russian because it seemed strange that you could be half an ethnicity, when…
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What Learning Portuguese has Taught me About Life and People
The day has arrived, it’s July 12th of 2019, i’m 23 years old, all my belongings have been crammed into one big suitcase and I head off for the most terrifying and wonderful adventure of my life to date – Moving from Australia to Portugal. Prior to this, I’d been to Portugal only once for…
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Bacalhau: The Cornerstone of Portuguese Cuisine
The translation of Bacalhau [which to me in English sounds like ba-ca-laweh) is Cod. But I’ll be referring to it as bacalhau because I love the sound of the word, which has the Portuguese nasally ‘hau’ sound, and because ‘cod’ sounds too simple to do the food justice. Here in Portugal, bacalhau is commonly associated…
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Finding Joy in the Simplest of Things.
Today I stumbled upon a quote that really spoke volumes to me. I thought I’d share it below as it beautifully sums up what I want to write about today. “If I were called upon to state in a few words the essence of everything I was trying to say both as a novelist and…
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Why Had I Never Tried Portuguese Food Before?
I’ve been living in Portugal for coming close to 2 years now, and what still baffles me is how I spent 22 years of my life without ever tasting any of this crazy good food. I grew up in Australia, which I consider a very multicultural country. I mean, according to the Australian Human Rights…
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What is a Boundless Appetite?
Well, here we go with the first post. I should probably start by explaining my interpretation of – a boundless appetite. A boundless appetite is essentially a curiosity and hunger for the great wide open. It’s an inquiring mind, an inquisitive palette, that longs for new adventures, distant lands and foreign foods. It’s simply a…
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