Speaker 1: Twenty twenty five was so big for you because of
Speaker 1: your decision to represent Australia in March, and then we
Speaker 1: also heard that you you got engaged in Italia as well.
Speaker 1: So like some incredible milestones for you. How do you
Speaker 1: reflect on those and what happened in twenty five?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's the year has been very intense. Let's say,
Speaker 2: you know, end core, it wasn't I mean, also I
Speaker 2: cannot complain it could be way way it worse, but
Speaker 2: you know it could be better as well, you know,
Speaker 2: didn't match my.
Speaker 1: Expectations, let's say.
Speaker 2: But outside of the court, it means been a wonderful year.
Speaker 2: You know, you're getting engaged, you know, a big I
Speaker 2: think one of not getting engaged, which is also I
Speaker 2: think second my big decision in my life. But I
Speaker 2: think for the moment, the biggest decision in my life,
Speaker 2: it's been to switch to Australia, one of the most
Speaker 2: you know, difficult, not in terms that I wasn't sure
Speaker 2: to do that, but you know, difficult to accept that
Speaker 2: I have to go something through something like this to
Speaker 2: to live a happy life. That was I mean it's
Speaker 2: still difficult to accept that.
Speaker 1: You know, I couldn't just.
Speaker 2: Be born somewhere where I can be myself and not
Speaker 2: to worry about all those things. But I mean, that's
Speaker 2: my that's my road route. This is the challenges I
Speaker 2: had to face. And finally, yeah, in uh in March,
Speaker 2: I unknowns that I'm going to represent Australia and I'm
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm super proud to represent the country which
Speaker 2: accepted me quite if I can say quite easily, because
Speaker 2: it's some think I'm not used to because during my
Speaker 2: you know, years career in life, it's been you know,
Speaker 2: it's tough. It's been a tough and difficult way and
Speaker 2: I mean I have to get used to a little
Speaker 2: bit that.
Speaker 1: I have to.
Speaker 2: I mean, I can relax on in this way. So yeah,
Speaker 2: it's been a tough year where I had to change
Speaker 2: my way of thinking as well, you know, and let
Speaker 2: myself relax a little bit because now I can. And sometimes,
Speaker 2: you know, you don't know which way it's going to
Speaker 2: bring you. Sometimes these changes, you know, brings you up
Speaker 2: straight away, sometimes brings you down, I mean in terms
Speaker 2: of performance, because you never know how it's gonna affect
Speaker 2: your performance. In my in my case, it was not
Speaker 2: not the way I expected it because I thought that
Speaker 2: maybe it will lift me up so much, where actually
Speaker 2: I little bit settled down, which is also maybe good
Speaker 2: for me because my nurse system was over stimulated for
Speaker 2: the past four years, where probably my brain said, finally
Speaker 2: we can breathe, finally we can relax a little bit,
Speaker 2: so maybe which I also needed because honestly, the last
Speaker 2: four years been too intense and too demanding. So yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean, finally I can say that it's a it's
Speaker 2: a fresh start and ready to go, you know completely. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I've been working a lot, you know, with the with
Speaker 2: the therapist, with the psychologist, you know, and I mean
Speaker 2: it's been a full year trying to understand myself and
Speaker 2: you know, get back on the right track and realize
Speaker 2: like what I have to do now, because before it
Speaker 2: was about about not sacrifices and.
Speaker 1: Personally suffering.
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