After 3 years as a flight attendant I decided it was time for twist in my life. Being constantly around the world makes you craving for more but also makes you feel quite nostalgic and lonely. Often I found my self in the hotel rooms of all around the world thinking about what I should do to make me feel really happy.
My job introduced me to China, place I will never have considerate for vacation or others before.
The first flight took me to Peking, China's capital.
At first I felt very uncomfortable and was scared to go out from the hotel by my own everything was so different, big, fast, busy, sometimes dirty. I felt like on another planet, where nobody can understand my language and for sure I cannot understand them; so what if I need help? or I get sick or have an accident? I feel better and safer in the hotel room.
This feeling of being totally unable to be independent in that place made me think a lot, I have a strong character and I cannot just let it go so....The next time i went there I really wanted to prove myself I could do it, that I was scared just cause we are scared of things we don't know, so I have to know this mystic China, place that challenged me and I accepted. After a long night of studying by heart the subway map and preparing mentally, I felt asleep (I know it can sound stupid but despite my job, I was really afraid of going far from the crew hotel and taking public transportation on my own in places I've never been before, I was always scared to not be able to find my way back). For the first time I decided to go to Tian'an Men Square, cause it wasn't so far from the hotel and didn't have to change metro. That night i felt so happy and satisfied I couldn't even fall asleep, I kept thinking about how many beautiful and incredible things were out there, waiting for me to be discovered.
I actually started to request flight to China cause I decided to start vlogging about it and discover that magical mystical so different place, that used so scare me so much and that now attracts me like honey to the bees.
I went to Peking 7 times in total last year and one in Shanghai. During my first night in Shanghai I actually made a dream, very confusing and strange, I cannot really describe it but long story made short it was about me living in China and not being able to get out of it anymore.
I guess after that night I decided that something had to be done but I wasn't ready yet to let my job go, so fast.
As the days passed by I felt more and more unhappy about my job, I didn't received China flights anymore but was flying over the atlantic instead and started to feel surprisingly 'homesick' about China.
Not to many months after, I decided to talk with my parents about my unhappiness-need for more mixed feelings and prepared the letter to leave my job. On January 2014 I send that letter and in March my life changed forever.
I left my home country for 6 longs months at first and then after a short break for 6 others to ahed to Shanghai to study mandarin chinese and so many things happened....
But this is another story, I will tell you all about it in the next Blogs.
Hoping you like it
Trust in yourself and follow your heart,
Lisa
p.s I have also a youtube channel but almost al my videos are in italian, I will upload more in english and in mandarin chinese since my boyfriend will help me to do them (so now you also know in Shanghai I found love oh oh...)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEjOa3RxfzpZDKXeTYYMSgg/videos
My job introduced me to China, place I will never have considerate for vacation or others before.
The first flight took me to Peking, China's capital.
At first I felt very uncomfortable and was scared to go out from the hotel by my own everything was so different, big, fast, busy, sometimes dirty. I felt like on another planet, where nobody can understand my language and for sure I cannot understand them; so what if I need help? or I get sick or have an accident? I feel better and safer in the hotel room.
This feeling of being totally unable to be independent in that place made me think a lot, I have a strong character and I cannot just let it go so....The next time i went there I really wanted to prove myself I could do it, that I was scared just cause we are scared of things we don't know, so I have to know this mystic China, place that challenged me and I accepted. After a long night of studying by heart the subway map and preparing mentally, I felt asleep (I know it can sound stupid but despite my job, I was really afraid of going far from the crew hotel and taking public transportation on my own in places I've never been before, I was always scared to not be able to find my way back). For the first time I decided to go to Tian'an Men Square, cause it wasn't so far from the hotel and didn't have to change metro. That night i felt so happy and satisfied I couldn't even fall asleep, I kept thinking about how many beautiful and incredible things were out there, waiting for me to be discovered.
I actually started to request flight to China cause I decided to start vlogging about it and discover that magical mystical so different place, that used so scare me so much and that now attracts me like honey to the bees.
I went to Peking 7 times in total last year and one in Shanghai. During my first night in Shanghai I actually made a dream, very confusing and strange, I cannot really describe it but long story made short it was about me living in China and not being able to get out of it anymore.
I guess after that night I decided that something had to be done but I wasn't ready yet to let my job go, so fast.
As the days passed by I felt more and more unhappy about my job, I didn't received China flights anymore but was flying over the atlantic instead and started to feel surprisingly 'homesick' about China.
Not to many months after, I decided to talk with my parents about my unhappiness-need for more mixed feelings and prepared the letter to leave my job. On January 2014 I send that letter and in March my life changed forever.
I left my home country for 6 longs months at first and then after a short break for 6 others to ahed to Shanghai to study mandarin chinese and so many things happened....
But this is another story, I will tell you all about it in the next Blogs.
Hoping you like it
Trust in yourself and follow your heart,
Lisa
p.s I have also a youtube channel but almost al my videos are in italian, I will upload more in english and in mandarin chinese since my boyfriend will help me to do them (so now you also know in Shanghai I found love oh oh...)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEjOa3RxfzpZDKXeTYYMSgg/videos