Today was/is Sunday. 6 th of May. 2012.
I was working at Coles in South Perth today and I m happy my shift was there today- yesterday I was in Phoenix shopping centre that is way bigger and is very busy, when South Perth is very slow. That s good.
When having another break, I got to know my workmate, well, more like Coles mate, who is working in shelves. His parents are from Poland and he, too, can actually speak polish. 2-3 years ago he visited Poland for month or two and got to know more about these people. He said they ve got quite a lot of gypsies. I don t know much about them, only when I lived in Hungary, in Budapest, just before I travelled to Australia, I saw them in Budapest. They don t have very good reputation and it s the same in Poland according to my Coles mate Robert. I m not surprised. But I was surprised in a good way that he knew polish and said he wants to go back to Poland one day. I said something in russian, but he didn t recognise that. Russian and polish are similar, but can be still different enough to misunderstand each other.
At home he basically talks in polish and that s good, he s bilingual. I would speak also estonian at home if my future mate would be estonian and if I would still live in a country where the official and main language is english or something else. But yes, I liked him. That s funny, because in Estonia I wouldn t relate myself in anyway with polish or Poland. There s just no connection between us and them, but for western world there would be. For them we would be eastern european countries and for some reason I felt connected to him, that s funny, because he s not even from Poland. He s from Australia, but to be honest, when I looked at him after figuring out his routes, I saw it on his face. He was eastern european, I mean, his blood is.
At home he basically talks in polish and that s good, he s bilingual. I would speak also estonian at home if my future mate would be estonian and if I would still live in a country where the official and main language is english or something else. But yes, I liked him. That s funny, because in Estonia I wouldn t relate myself in anyway with polish or Poland. There s just no connection between us and them, but for western world there would be. For them we would be eastern european countries and for some reason I felt connected to him, that s funny, because he s not even from Poland. He s from Australia, but to be honest, when I looked at him after figuring out his routes, I saw it on his face. He was eastern european, I mean, his blood is.
That was interesting yes. I think I realised that first time in Australia. I think I even sensed that he was almost like talking about home or some lost and found treasure, when he was talking about Poland.
There was one thing that surprised him, when he got to Poland.
"I heard black man talking polish, that was just so weird", he became a bit excited.
"I saw maybe only 3 blacks in the whole time I was there and no asians", he added.
No asians! Wow. I think we would have few in Estonia, at least in capital? Or I ve been away for so long that I can t even remember anymore. But we would also see more blacks in Estonia I think.? At least tourists.. we have quite a lot of tourists in summer time(from May- Aug). But yes, that s true, Eastern Europe wouldn t get that much blacks and asians and other ethnicities, only white caucasians or however it is called in english.
From tomorrow I am working at Woolstores shopping centre, that is in Fremantle, close to ocean, beach and probably for the whole next week.
I don t know if I m gonna see Robert again. He said he wants to become accountant, but haven t finished studies yet. Doesn t have even Facebook. Everybody has, but he didn, t, and I didn t ask any other contact. Anyways, the whole next week I ll be busy at work. That s good. Can save some money hopefully.
That s it. Finito for now.
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