"𝘏𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘵 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘭𝘦𝘧𝘵 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘺" - Atticus
The Swedish girl Alice Ericsson is a kind and thoughtful 23-year-old who studies journalism at University of Chicago...
I felt a joyful feeling as I walked off the airplane from Sweden at Vienna International Airport. I had been home in Kumla for 2 days, mostly because I wanted to be home as much as possible due to the fact I wasn't going to be able to meet my family and friends in a long time when I was heading back to Chicago this fall. Though, also since I needed to fix a small thing with the Viaplay crew in Stockholm, before going to Austria.
Wow it's so beautiful, I thought, as my thinking had been interrupted by the beautiful mountains you could see in the horizon outside the large airport windows.
I had only been in Austria one time before. It was when my brother still raced in F1, during the 2018 Austrian Grand Prix where both him and Charles scored points. So I had only good memories from the circuit, and was therefore really excited to be located in the central European country again, to watch yet another Grand Prix at Red Bull Ring, this time as a damn F1 reporter.
After a few weekends of working, I still hadn't fully understood that being a F1 journalist was actually my job this whole summer. That I was getting paid to talk to the drivers during every race weekend. It was still such a surreal feeling, every time I arrived in a country, knowing I that weekend was going to work as a reporter.
I reflected on how much that participation in my brothers podcast a few months ago had meant. How much my life had changed since that participation, which I actually had hesitated on at first. How much my life had improved since that participation. I was living my absolute dream, closer than ever with Charles, and in the beginning of a relationship with a young German, that possibly could be my future partner. That participation had completely changed my life to the better and I was so grateful for it. So grateful to be able to do what I had dreamed of for so long.
