07/06/2025
“Pag talagang para sayo, para sayo. Makakakamit mo ng walang kahirap hirap. Magtiwala ka lang na kaya mo.”
Exactly one month after landing in Australia, we found our new home. ❤️
The last four weeks have been hard, juggling everything from integrating in school, centrelink and medicare requirements, rental inspection and job hunting…and running those errands in bitter cold, and rain and sun, and wind, sometimes all in the same day.
And then constantly being rejected, house after house, after you’ve invested hours, walked kilometers to inspect five of them in a day, and jumped through hoops in your cover letter just to get accepted (applying for a rental here is just like applying for a job).
We were really feeling down before the end of our third week. 😢
We scrimped up the courage to try again last weekend, and then gave it our best the following Monday morning.
By afternoon, while walking to another house inspection, I received a text from the agent that we got approved.
No long explanations. We just wrote the truth. We were in tears while walking on the street. 🥹
Malayo at mas mahirap pa ang kakaharapin namin (job hunting naman), pero hindi kami makakarating sa puntong ito kung hindi dahil sa mga taong tumulong samin. ❤️
To our family friend, thank you, to the moon and back, for welcoming us wholeheartedly into your home, helping us in every way you can, without ever asking anything in return. To newfound friends for the winter gear, and to my wife’s tito, for your treat, for your pointers, and for giving us an extra hand moving our things. ❤️
We are forever grateful for the support and encouragement you have given us, and we hope to pay it forward, pag kami naman ang nasa posisyon na tumulong, soon. 🙏
Maraming salamat sa inyo, we are one more step closer to our goals. Now time to start grinding again. 💪
