marksabout

A favourite nickname for me from some of my high school mates, well… one (you know who you are) has somehow became my parallel name in Europe. After about 20 years since may name was melodised into Markuspandelakus, and after 10 years delving into my roots and finally coming up with Greek nationality Mark Pandelakis has morphed, via markuspandelakis to Markos Pantelakis in my new Greek passport!

Ten years since I first wanted to, almost to the day, I have settled in the EU. Spain, more specifically. And two months after moving into my Madrid digs, and having finally sorted out most of the administrative hula-hooping (made more difficult through a combination of my own language inadequacy and a seemingly inflexible… let’s call it bureaucracy), and with Brexit and Trump getting repetitive, I’ve taken to augment my job search and part-time evening job teaching english with a documentation of my experience as an ESL (español second language) Australian Greek in Spain.

Let me put my thoughts in order as, the previous two months has provided so much material, I’m not sure where to start. Or whether to simply move on…

I have a feeling some of you are subscribed to this blog, but with the last post published some 5 years ago it surely hasn’t been blocking up your inbox. That’s about to change. Feel free to unsubscribe if my banal archiving becomes too much.

I put the shortness of this post down to a mantra a wise au pair once said that I use when trying to motivate a new venture, “well begun is half done”.

Hasta la proxima!