pre- existing blog – June 29, 2021

It’s been the fourth lockdown in Melbourne and frankly, I am quite sick of it. Surprised? Didn’t think so.. By now I had planned to be in Sydney interning for a PR Agency, build a new social network and just start a new adventure — plot twist, by myself! Wild. A year and a half ago if someone told me I actually planned on going to a new city by myself to be more by myself than I would already be in the known environment of my beautiful Melbourne, I would’ve said “you’re nuts!!” Me? By myself? Without a social safety net? Geeeeeet out. But, Covid the good ol pal (in the most ironic tone possible) made the cities close their borders once again.

So here I am, sitting in this cute little Italian alley cafe in the royal arcade in the middle of the city of Melbourne. The waiters can tell how uncomfortable I am which isn’t hard, I’m so far out of my comfort zone that I keep looking up at the people around me, trying to figure out if they are judging me. I am hiding behind my screen, known shield to my surroundings.

It’s all practice, I tell myself. So here I am, writing my first ever blog post, sitting at this round tiny table big enough to fit two people and their cappuccinos, next to two elderly French women. 

Sorry, how rude, I haven’t even introduced myself yet. I’m Sonia. Sonni or Son to most, Noni or Chochi to some. A 26 year old post grad student in design, trying to put together a punchline title of what my job is going to be. I haven’t gotten very far with it yet. Some call it the human- centred design philosophy (a guy from hinge summed this up for me, I guess one good thing that came out of using this app). I like the sound of it. When you tell people you study design, they always respond with “oh so you draw?” Or “so do you design houses?”

 It takes about 2 glasses of wine and a strong listener to get where I am right now. A design thinker, skilled sketcher, problem solver for any situation. Some urban and product design, but always more interested in the human development around us. For my bachelor thesis I wrote about intercultural communication, the most fascinating topic. HR and leadership has joined the ship of education that is my brain and I really enjoy it — you see what I mean, I can go on for days…or parapraphs.. long story short, I want to consult. A human centred problem solving consultant putting together strategic plans for companies (or any culture group really) to include any humans and build their best possible environment at the work place. Maybe life coach someday, deep down secretly planning to be a singer / actor — you know, the usual. 

A part of me always wanted to write. That part was a tiny almost unnoticeable puzzle piece of my character, wanting to write princess love novels when I was a kid. Now, that piece has almost outgrown the me that I thought I knew so well, got a real growth shot in the past two years. It came hand in hand with the interests of reading “pillow thoughts” by Courtney Peppernell and Rupi Kaur’s “milk and honey”. They’re playing Macy Grey in the background right now. “I try” has been one of my favourite songs since the Gilmore Girls faught about Macy’s CD in the pilot episode of the greatest series of all time, and my safe place. I could start a whole new chapter dreaming about Stars Hollow now BUT we must get back to the plot. I am a high sensitive empath, growing up to an Australian dad and German mum. Never really good at school partly because I didn’t want to be called a nerd and partly because the subjects bored me, I much rather preferred being the class clown, so much so teacher’s didn’t even trust me to graduate. I would give a lot to see their faces now that I’m almost finished with my masters degree. I’m also, probably, the most energetic Aries walking the face of earth, just with a lil sensitive nerve system. I have two moods: energetic, loud, always singing sassy back-talker or the quiet writing affine emotional deep diver. 

This will be fun. I hope you’ll stay for a bit. Join the ride. I’ll talk about my life choices and dreams, places I’ve lived and want to go, adventures and social anecdotes from my wild social butterfly party nights etc etc. There’s a lot. Bare with me while I’m trying to find the right tone for this platform.

Until next time 

S xx