# Blog 8 - New opportunities

It's Saturday and i am free it's the weekend! I just finished cleaning my room and i am looking around differently than normally.. i like my room, it's small, but cozy and feels like home. I have everything i need in here. But i am gonna move in a couple of weeks to a new apartment! I am really looking forward to it. That's why i am cleaning and throwing things away that i don't use any more ore is broken, it always feels good to make the next move. Then you look twice at your belongings and you end up with less and less.. in the end, you don't need much in life. (but ssssstt i did bought a couple interior things that i now also have to move in my small car haha it doesn't end with a few suitcases anymore (A).

I live in a TP apartment that's what we call it because its an apartment filled with employees of TelePerformance, the company we all work for but has different projects how need different languages. At this point my lovely roommates left a couple of weeks ago Tatiana and Alan, i miss them, it was so nice and chill together, they became my friends, we still have good contact. We will stay friends, I'm sure of that. But now there are 2 new roomies entered and they look nice too. I and still live with Anais how is really improving her English! We have to get used to each other again. We now have a mixed house with a French and German girl and a Spanish guy haha and me the Dutchie. My Project Philips at Teleperformance is also ending. They stop in Portugal and moving to Greece. I need to find a new project, they gave me 2 options as a new job but i don't really like it.. It sounds boring a call center job, and yes its not the most cool job i have on my CV haha but this job gives the highest salary for non-Portuguese speaking people. What we earn with this job is more than a minimum salary. So I am trying to find something outside of TP, there are more call center companies in Lisbon, but then i also need to leave this apartment and.. 

That's why i just said YES to a new room, its located in Almada on the other side of the river. I was going there yesterday afternoon to have a look at the house and the rooms, the nice couple were still renovating 2 rooms and decorating them. I was the first one how came to see for real. The couple did a nice job, it's well renovated, with nice natural basic items and a 2 person bed! Haha Yeaahh i am sleeping in a single bed here and pff it's so smaaallll haha . 

The house has a lot of +++ but also a couple - -points. Unfortunately, the house doesn't have a balcony and no livingroom. Life will be a lot outside, for 9 months of the year so it is not necessary and i will have a nice bedroom. We do have a great kitchen, with a dining table and a nice clean bathroom with a bathtub, and 2 big rooms and 2 smaller rooms. When i walked in yesterday i was in love with the 2 bigger rooms. But one room is mend for me, its a nice corner room, with 2 windows, one is looking to the river and the bridge in the distance, the other looks at the street where you can see far into the street. It felt like the corner in my house in Amsterdam that you always have a nice light coming in and where you can stand in the window for hours just looking in the streets and at the nice view, that made me feel good. The next minus – point was that if i stay with TP but a different project, the location is not ideal, it will take me some time to get from house to work. But on the other end. When I'm home, i live in a nice neighborhood, it is quiet around the house, but in walking distance, i have everything around me, bars, restaurants, the waterside, a huge inside shopping center, a fresh market, a big green park, the ferry to Lisbon AND the beach in 10 min drive! Sooo yes i think i cannot have everything, so a longer travel to work, that i will survive.. in the meantime, i am also in the middle of a job interview and they also offer to work from home so maybe it will all come together in the end. 

Yesterday my daily ..#mindsetofgreatness said:

“Everything is coming together nicely even if you can’t see it right now. Very soon you will look back and be happy you stayed true to yourself & your deepest desires.”

I believe in this one. Lisbon is a beautiful city but i don't have to live in it. I go to the center ones or twice a month and i can easily do that from the other side. I really love nature and beaches around Lisbon and that's still everywhere around me. I still have my Dutchie my orange car so i can go where ever i want. The beach is at my new house 10 min drive and the most beautiful beaches near Sesimbra are little more than a half-hour drive! It feels like the Caribbean there, white sand, a lot trees and green nature surrounding and turquoise clear water, its an amazing area.

Sooo new steps along the way for my future in Portugal. Im still in love with this country. I love that i don't need much to enjoy my life the fullest. There is so much beauty around me that brings a smile on my face, that doesn't cost money. I was in the Netherlands always afraid of the future. I had the feeling that everything was unreachable for me. I was more concerned about my age and lifestyle. Everybody around me was settling and buying houses, that was not an option for a single girl like me. I loved my job back there but i could not really save with it. Buying a house gave me a suffocating feeling. And also impossible in Amsterdam. Outside Amsterdam i don't like the Netherlands.. so i didn’t see my future in the Netherlands. And now here in Portugal, i don't think about buying a house, i don't think about settling i live my life in a great free spirit. I can do whatever i want, i can live wherever i want, i have my freedom and my car that takes me everywhere. I do have a big dream for my future in Portugal that of course always needs money.. I want to start my Guesthouse one day.. but i will keep dreaming and organizing it day by day and i started saving for my future.. let's see in 5 years what life will bring me. I will explain about the guesthouse in another blog one day ;)

Lots of love! 

Hopefully my next blog i will write from my new room in Almada!  

Kissss 

See Almada and my future room below =)