Today is my first day in Linz Austria, I will be staying here for two months to work for a tech company. This opportunity was somewhat unexpected since I was not actively looking to go abroad, but then the opportunity came and I decided to go with it.

This experience has great personal value for me. First of all, I will be working in the industry I want to build a career in; I can finally step out of the University bubble and see what a real day to day job looks like. Further, I get paid for this so I can be financially independent which is important.

Moreover, I want to see how I handle myself in a completely new environment. I have been living alone already for three years but I got used to my life in Trento, I enjoyed quite a stable situation and It has been a while since I had great changes in my life.

I also don't know German, which means I have to translate everything when I go out since the city does not put much effort helping you. As soon as I moved in to my building, I had to fill a document with details about myself for the immigration center; the document was in German so It took me a while to understand everything that I needed to write, thankfully It was not too difficult and I asked another person to review my understanding of the words. Still, why would a document that immigrants need to sing be in German? English is the universally known language and chances are that people from other countries know English. Maybe there is some policy regarding official documents, but I think this is not helping the person that wants to enter the country.

Once I had the document signed, I needed to bring it to a local library where I would be registered in the country. The local library then pointed me to go to the center in the Magistrate, which pointed me to go to room 1109 where they handled the registration. I have to say that everything was really fast and the people I talked to knew where to send me.

What was.. unusual.. was how many young people I met during this process, and while moving. The people I talked to in the Magistrate were really young, I'd say between 21 and 25 except one which was older. Even the girl at the city library, and the people in the tram. This makes me sad seeing that in Italy all the young people are fleeing the country and who's left are mostly elderly people.

Later, I bought my lunch at Eurospar and took a nap. I needed to buy more things but then It started raining really heavily so I went to a closer store and bought just the dinner. Even if the trip was a few hundred meters, my pants and shoes got completely wet, thankfully there is a dryer I can use in the building. Tomorrow I'll go to a second hand shop and buy some plates and things to cook at a cheap price (hopefully) so I can start cooking by myself.

I need some sleep now, the previous night I could not sleep at all in the bus. Yet flixbusses are really nice, I payed a fraction of what I would have payed if I were to go by train or plane.

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