So i just realized that it has already been a month after Tanel left and I started working in this hostel. At first when I started I thought that I am not going to stay here long but suddenly my so called "work agreement" ends in couple of days.
It has been quite weird time in some sense. I really have no idea where has all the time gone. First I tried to catch up with my blog and sort out all the pictures, then french girl and brazilian guy started working here and month has passed and there hasn't actually happened anything.
Whole Chrischurch is quite slow and boring city, my hostel mates in staff house were quiet and didn't do anything most of the time. Because of backpackers low season there has been very little new people coming trough hostel as well, so still nothing. Staying in this hostel has been quite nice on other other hand. Staff had own house for them, you had your own bed to yourself and it was good to get some goodnight sleep. As a backpacker I can say that this has been one really quiet and uneventful month. comfortable and nice but still quiet. With some people form hostel we had just 20 km hike around city, which was nice. City and landscape was mostly boring but hike was ok. I have taken couple of capoeira classes as well which I really enjoyed, tho seems that teacher here is not lot better in capoeira than me.
As for a entrepreneur inside me, this time has been great awakening. I am still not quite sure where this road leads me or if I am willing to take this. Seems that it is everything that I have grown out in past 5 month. Or maybe I just have upgraded myself to be on this path.. and the path chose me..? Being around the world without anything is challenging experience which liberates you in its own way when accept it, but when you want to create something from nothingness, word challenge gets new meaning. Not that I am afraid of challenge but it definitely changes meaning of liberty as well. And I think this is one of the reasons I ended up here in NZ at first place.
Anywho, I have been in numerous startup meetings and regular meetings, drank heaps of coffee, eaten pizza and jam with occasional beer. One cool thing in Christchurch is that after the earthquake here, it has focused lot more to innovation and technology (there is part of city which is called innovation precinct full of incubators). I have managed to make quite a number of business contacts. I think if I can keep up the same pace, contacts here will outnumber contacts in back home quite soon. I think that probably one of the reasons for this is that being here alone won't give you much options, you either do it or you don't, because no one else is going to do it. I even signed up for doing a presentation which is yet to come. It is quite amazing how you just learn to open up and just start a conversation with stranger. I consider myself as a person who usually does not like small talk or seek connection with people I don't know. It has always been kind of understanding of your own ego that I do my own thing and if there is no particular need to talk someone then I don't do it. But on my quest to find like minded people this has changed a lot. Sometimes I even feel like drug addict when I try to see how many business cards I can get from events and how many new people I can meet. I could still argue that it still serves a purpose of some kind because I am not doing this because I love to talk random people (which I have kind of started to enjoy..). But as experience this is totally new level for me in travel-, social- and personal vise.
Like I said, I am still not sure what is the outcome, because if everything goes like it is going right now I have to commit myself for this probably longer than I initially planned when I left home. Not thinking about this right now to avoid conflicting feelings. For now I'll keep watering and growing.
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