Life unexpected....

Here I´m again, starting a new blog. Since last time everything is changed... I am changed but I´m happy and grateful for everything that happened to me in this year...
All of this can be resumed with just one word:  

                                                                                        GUIDELIFE <3

One year ago I was a girl who just got her Master Degree and didn't know what to do with her life...Than I got an opportunity... A job in Tuscany as a Tour Guide for 4 weeks... It took me one month to say yes to this job but than, after a little trip to London and Sicily that helped me to understand how unhappy I was, I got the courage...I packed my bag and started this wonderful journey in Tuscany....

Tuscany was beautiful and this job took my heart <3 I visited and worked in Firenze, Pisa, San Gimignano and Volterra but also in Cinque Terre that it´s situated in Liguria :)
When I came back from this first guide experience, the feeling that I had before leaving just became stronger and I knew I needed to change something in my life, that  Helsinki was not my place anymore, at least not for now.

I decided to do something I always wanted to do and apply for a job as a Tour Guide for  the Finnish Tui, Finnmatkat. I thought I had all it takes to apply: good language skills, customer service and tourism experience BUT I soon discovered that driver licence was required and I did not have one :/ In Finland the driver license costs around 3000€ and I did not have that much savings but I got a brilliant idea :D Go back to the origin... I asked in Sicily how much would it cost to get my driver license there and they told me around 500€ .... it was not hard make a decision. I packed my staff and moved again to my old house in Catania, Sicily.

Live again in Sicily, after 8 years in Finland, was fantastic. My friends, my family, sun, happy people...Gosh I miss Sicily :( At the beginning of February, after passing few tests and a phone interview, I got a call from Finnmatkat... I needed to go to Finland for a job interview! I went to Helsinki, did the interview and on Valentine´s day I got the call that changed my life! I was in!! I was officially a Tour Guide for Finnmatkat! <3
Now I just needed to go back to Sicily and do my best at the driving exam. I have always been afraid of driving, It´s why at 18 years old I spent my money to move to Finland and not to get my driving license like all my friends did....BUT the 13/03/2014, the day after my birthday, at the age of 26, I finally got my driver license!! woop woop!

I was so happy and I programmed to have two weeks in Sicily with my family  before leaving again for Finland BUT life always surprises you and I got a call from the same company for who I worked in Tuscany... they wanted me in Spain to be a guide for them again ASAP!! OMFK! Life is an adventure so I said yes and left for Barcelona the next day :D

I had two great weeks there and learned so much about Spain, Gaudi and Salvator Dali! Amazing! Traveling and working as a tour guide teaches you so many things and you feel so reach everytime you leave a place! The 1/4/2014 was time to go back to Sicily, few days there and than back to Finland! In Helsinki I fixed all I needed to fix, I said goodbye to everybody and the 21/4 was time to leave and start my adventure. Was training time in Cyprus!

                                       Blue Academy 2014

But this is another story...... :)