A graffiti I found by one of my favorite cafes.
I can't stand the thought of leaving. I almost started crying listening to an Oreja de Van Gogh song. I don't even like that group that much but I know it's gonna remind me so much of my time here. Also Chambao. The joy with which I walk to school listening to their songs early in the morning will stay with me for a long time. I've felt like that many times in Santa Cruz even on the most boring, never-ending 8 hour day at work, I'd be walking from the library to Baytree and look around and marvel at the beauty around me and I'd want to cry because I knew it was my last month experiencing that as an everyday thing. Visiting is just so different. When I do visit (probably in February), I'm getting a Coffeetopia quick cup with a bagel and sun dried tomato cream cheese, getting stuff done on campus, then I'm getting a Vallarta burrito for lunch, visiting people and window-shopping downtown, then strolling down East Cliff Drive before having tom yum and green curry at Sabieng with friends and then a Guinness at the Poet and Patriot. (sorry Korin, I stole some of those from you)
As far as traveling, my itinerary is fairly set. At first I was most scared about spending Christmas alone, which is slightly absurd since I don't truly celebrate Christmas. Nevertheless I've always seen the value in a unified human emotion at times, and I feel like that's what Christmas (or to put to in a more P.C. manner - the holiday season) does to the world, and something I would be distanced from if I were to spend it alone in a hostel. In Russia I had "Christmas" but it was on New Years Eve, so the traditions were still there and the holiday spirit definitely rears it's pretty little head during the month of December. You wouldn’t believe how insanely decorated Cordoba is. I think the official illumination of the city will be tonight at 12am. I’ll post pictures after that happens. Well, now I'm spending Christmas with Christina (a girl from my program) and her sister, in Barcelona. Not much of a family I guess, but the knowledge of that has been quite a relief for me. NYE I will still be in Barcelona and will most likely not sleep all night and take a January 1st, 6:30am flight to Paris from Barcelona airport. I’ll hopefully be able to go straight to my great-aunt’s apartment and then go to Antwerp, Belgium for a couple of days, and come back with my sister (!) who is now coming to Europe as well. We’re gonna stay with my aunt until I leave on the 10th to go to Hanover where I will stay with Korin for 10 days. We’ll probably go to Berlin and Amsterdam and I’m trying to get her to come to Ireland with me.
So I guess I’m not so solo after all. Most of my solo traveling will be done in Spain (Christina will only be there for 2 days), then maybe some of Germany if Korin is busy with work, and then Ireland. I was sort of looking forward to this great adventure alone, but I won’t lie, I was extremely happy to find out that my sister is coming as well.
I was rereading the last chain of emails that Larkin and I sent to each other and Gmail decided to generate some advertisment for my reading pleasure. The ad generator works by scanning through the text of the email that you happen to be looking at and displaying appropriate advertisement for you on the side. For example, you could be telling your best friend about your new cat Fluffy and Gmail puts in ads for petmeds.com, or getridoffleas.com, etc. So what did Gmail decide to generate for me this time?
Save Your Relationship!
Proven Method and Strategy Get Back With Your Ex Now
www.DontBreakUp.com
It seems that there is a remedy for anything these days…
Thing end and things begin again and you can't stop it from happening. Change is good.
Y si un día me siento transformado
y decido reorientar la dirección,
tomare un nuevo rumbo sin prejuicios
porque en el cambio esta la evolución
4 comments:
Ever since I read this about the ads in your gmail, I can't not look at all of the ads in my gmail, and I get some weird stuff. I was emailing my friend about our African Architecture stuff, and this thing about feng shui popped up. Weird.
Oh, yeah, and it's really cool that you are having a European adventure. More importantly.
nice poem at the end... you write that?
Hah! I wish I wrote that. Those are some lyrics from a song by Chambao, which is one of my favorite bands now. Their style is "flamenco chill" or that's what they call it here, and it's really good. Download some! That song is called Dibujo en el Aire.
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