When I started to feel Australian | | Weekend-Engagement

Since Friday, when I read Galenkp's post, I started researching about Australia in every possible way and I was writing down in my notebook as I always do and organising my ideas to participate in the challenge.

Of course, as I read and learned about the beauty of that country, my enthusiasm grew and I started daydreaming about getting on a plane to go there immediately. Since dreaming doesn't cost anything, I kept dreaming.

Australia, bathed by two oceans, the Pacific and the Indian Ocean, with a high standard of living and quality of life, is a multicultural country. I read about its flora and fauna. About the poisonous animals that exist and even the rare ones. So much reading and learning about Australia that I dreamt that night that I went on a trip and landed at Kingsford Smith International Airport. I had a very interesting dream, but like all dreams, unexplainable things happened to me. I started walking and I saw a big sign that said: Welcome to "C Australia". This "C" I will explain later.

The streets were not the paved avenues of Australia, they were unpaved roads and the big buildings like the Sydney Opera House and the National Museum of Australia were just wooden or block houses, the fancy cars were now just ox carts and horse-drawn carts, cars from the 50s and 60s and I spotted a train that was not even close to the modern super-fast trains that exist in Australia.

It was a train of many carriages carrying Sugar Cane, and what about the flora and fauna of the place? There were no koalas, no kangaroos, no cockatoos and I didn't see the sea either. But there were plenty of dogs, cats, cows, pigs and all kinds of birds.

Australia which is such a beautiful country and with such vivid colours and landscapes, as I have seen in pictures, during my research, 🤔 and I had entered a place where a giant tower was billowing grey smoke and a smell that I thought was sweet. Do you know where I was in my dream? In a Sugar Central and that was the reason for the "C" at the beginning. It was the Australia Sugar Central in the municipality of Jagüey Grande, Matanzas province, Cuba.

Of course, I woke up startled and saddened at the same time, as I had not even dreamed of going to the beautiful country that is Australia. I wanted to celebrate Australia Day and feel Australian. They say that dreams can come true one day, and that would be the best thing that could happen to me at the end of my old age.

For the time being, I will continue to visit Varadero Beach, where the waters are crystal clear, the sand is fine and white and the sea that bathes it has many marine species and beautiful corals just like in Australia. Our flora and fauna are also diverse and we have the Manjouari, a fish endemic to our country, as well as the Australian platypus.

Happy Australia Day 👏, let's all celebrate and feel Australian too.