August was our last month living In Graz before our big move to Vienna,…
This blog started when I was about to move to Graz, or at least when the idea of starting CE in Graz began, I have been writing my stories on here for the last 4 years. There have been lots of stories worth telling, and I am so glad that I did take the time to write some of them down. The main theme of my writing in the beginning was about business, opening one, how to do it, what to avoid… etc… slowly it became a more emotional dialog, as it took on a more personal form. Maybe I just realised that I am not that good at business, I am good at connecting to people and places and everything for me is an emotional journey and set of experiences. The continuation of this blog is going to be left open, maybe I will feel like writing it, maybe I won’t. I know the adventure is not stopping, because fuck it… im moving again to another city, starting again from wherever I am and I do not know what is going to happen. The differences between my move to Graz and this move to Vienna are many, for one im not homeless and in debt, but I think the main difference is that I am doing this move with someone who is important to me, I did all my other changes alone, and this is the first one that I have managed to persuade someone to come along with me (actually he persuaded me to come with him)
Life is just passing by so fast, I am already 30 (I thought it would never happen). I want to give this move a try, even though it is hard to leave Graz and everything I have built here. For one I will be stepping away from Culture Exchange, which as many people know has been my obsession for the last 6 years, not only that but its been my thing.. it was what I did… now the question is what do I do? So many ideas and opportunities are awaiting, I guess I have to take it one step at a time, i will try to move forward in the right way, with patience and love. I know for sure I want to ride my bike for a job for as long as I can, and opening another place in Vienna… well lets just say I have Pizza on the brain, possible new business idea for Vienna.. Vegan pizza place… well you will be notified if this dream finds its feet. Although I certainly will not be looking forward to doing the paperwork for another business in Austria, the good news is that I have my gastro licence… so one thing is out of the way.
Graz has been wonderful to me, I got so attached to the little routines here, the cycling at Pink Pedals, the shopping for our food at the market, the friends who were always just down the road, baking cakes at CE… and so many more things that I cannot even name. I think my time here, these 3 years have been a great success, because they have been super happy years.
The last month here in Graz was very fast and packed. I was alone running CE (The other owners were on holiday for the month of August) I had many things to do all the time. I was cooking lots of delicious food, baking beautiful cakes, shopping for the business and I have to say I enjoyed it. Even though it was at some points kind of exhausting to get up so early and cook for everyone and make the place run, it made me feel satisfied. It was nice to have my last moments alone with it before leaving, and to feel again that it was really mine, I saw also how fucking capable I am to run a business. I think the last years I really lost my confidence that I can do a good job at this, but every time I am alone and see how I handle it, I have to admit that I am really proud of myself. I keep pushing and can handle the pressure.
So moving to Vienna, already we are off to a great start. The great news is we already found a room in the coolest apartment in the city. The RADS nest (Radical, anarchist, dangerous, sisters) it was our first choice of where we wanted to move when we were thinking about Vienna, but all the rooms were taken. At the last moment, we got a chance to take a free room and are really looking forward to live in this awesome WG…
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