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The great adventure of our life is got to be a trip divided into different periods.

The first period and greatest success of my life was to be born. Soon, the eagerness to discover more and more from what’s around me and build us lead me to learn with no limits. Subsequently, I ended up studying and working in education, culture and biochemistry.

After my second period as a student in my wonderful school and the university, I figured out every climb to a mountain requires some big effort, but the the views we get in the end let us grow immensely.

So, since life could be compared to a solo trip, we’ll find at every step different travel mates. Some will pass quickly by us so they can follow their own pace, others will stop and enjoy more each moment and others will walk through their path really slow and overcome several difficulties in order to fully learn what they need to reach their next step. We’re all different. We all have our own path. But we can all meet and share our experiences at some point. Thanks to that, I’ve been and I’m able to count with an awesome team of inspiring friends and adventurers even thousands of kilometers far from me. That’s this trip: «Just you, but not just you alone.»

On this blog that I titled «MI PROPIO ÍTACA» ( «My own Ithaka» )  I’d like to share my third period of my personal travel. Three years ago now, I started writing this blog as I stepped into a new continent, Australia. I was really lucky to break down human and geographic walls, get closer to the beautiful world and humanity we live in, and experience so many moments I never imagined I’d live and which have enlightened my way. My way to my own Ithaka, my own place in the world.

(if there is, cuz it seems to be the whole world to me)

And last year, right after I lived in Australia, I moved to Japan with a 1 year Working Holiday Visa! Wanna know more about my experience there?

Welcome to my adventure in Australia and Japan!

« As you set out for Ithaka
hope your road is a long one,
full of adventure, full of discovery.
Laistrygonians, Cyclops,
angry Poseidon—don’t be afraid of them:
you’ll never find things like that on your way
as long as you keep your thoughts raised high,
as long as a rare excitement
stirs your spirit and your body.
Laistrygonians, Cyclops,
wild Poseidon—you won’t encounter them
unless you bring them along inside your soul,
unless your soul sets them up in front of you.

Hope your road is a long one.
May there be many summer mornings when,
with what pleasure, what joy,
you enter harbors you’re seeing for the first time;
may you stop at Phoenician trading stations
to buy fine things,
mother of pearl and coral, amber and ebony,
sensual perfume of every kind—
as many sensual perfumes as you can;
and may you visit many Egyptian cities
to learn and go on learning from their scholars.

Keep Ithaka always in your mind.
Arriving there is what you’re destined for.
But don’t hurry the journey at all.
Better if it lasts for years,
so you’re old by the time you reach the island,
wealthy with all you’ve gained on the way,
not expecting Ithaka to make you rich.

Ithaka gave you the marvelous journey.
Without her you wouldn’t have set out.
She has nothing left to give you now.

And if you find her poor, Ithaka won’t have fooled you.
Wise as you will have become, so full of experience,
you’ll have understood by then what these Ithakas mean. »

Cavafy