📖 From Sourov's world: I lived in Australia for over a decade. Much as I loved Sydney, I knew I would leave one day. Much as I valued what hospitality taught me, I wanted something…
📖 From Sourov's world: I was working at the casino when the call came. My father had died. I had been carrying my phone in my pocket all evening — I don't know why, I…
📖 From Sourov's world: I moved to Réunion because my wife is French and the island offered something the mainland didn't. However, starting over in a new country means rebuilding from zero. As a result,…
📖 From Sourov's world: A feedback session changed my teaching. Someone told me: "Get off your high horse." I went home and I wrote down exactly what was said — word for word. Later I…
📖 From Sourov's world: In a restaurant kitchen, no one says "Marco burned the risotto." They say "the risotto was burned." The passive removes the person. In business, in journalism, in bureaucracy — the passive…
📖 From Sourov's world: Someone once asked me: "If you could go back to 2005, would you still move to Sydney?" I said: "Yes — but I would learn more English first." That "would" and…
📖 From Sourov's world: I have lived in three countries. I lived in Australia for twelve years. Do you feel the difference? The first sentence is about now — it still shapes me. The second…
📖 From Sourov's world: I arrived in Sydney in 2005. I got off the plane. I sat on the kerb outside the terminal for three hours. I didn't know anyone. I didn't have a phone.…
📖 From Sourov's world: In hospitality, your skills are your salary. I could make twelve types of coffee. I could recommend a wine blind. I could serve twenty tables at once without a single error.…
📖 From Sourov's world: Réunion island sits in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar. There is a volcano in the middle — Piton de la Fournaise, one of the most active in the world. There…
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