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Hello again! I'm sorry for not writing for such a long time, but I had really intense days where so many things happened! So I'm going to go through the main events these last weeks!

To start, the 9th February was a year from the day we first met out Dutch partners, the day they came to Barcelona! It was really weird seing blond and tall people around school, and the 3rd graders acting just the same way we did when we were on our exchange! So, in our sentimental moment, we decided to write a brief letter and handed it to the teacher who came from Holland, to give it to our partners. They said they liked it a lot and even posted a photo of it on facebook, thanking us a lot!

A week or two later (I'm not in the mood for counting days right now) it was the carnival! Almost every girl in the class dressed up like the LMFAO singers, with bright colours and zebra or leopard leggins, with their hair curly or things like that... They danced and the performance was quite good i loved watching them dance! After the bar time outside we went to have lunch altogether in Glories, and we stayed in some benches talking and letting time go by... Later I went to Uri's house for a while and afterwards, at night, to the beach with Joana and Arantxa, with the guitar. We sang songs and laughed, and i enjoyed that a lot.

And now I have an eye infection since tuesday night and that really bothers me... I didn't go to school for two days and I skipped three exams, so this next monday i'll have to do them all! Well I'm leaving now, I  post something about the awesome serie I've been watching for the last months, Breaking Bad, and it's one of the best i've ever seen!

Song of the day: Bruce Springsteen - I'm Goin' Down

WELCOME AGAIN READERS!!

Heey people what's up? It's been such a long time! Almost ten months without writing in here makes it really hard to start all over again... But here I am, willing to share my daily life and interests to make your lives a bit less boring. So in the next entry you'll know about me! See you soon!


Song of the day: Boyce Avenue - When The Lights Die 

Easter is over!

So the little vacation is over! This afternoon after lunch I’m coming back to Barcelona, and I still have some homework left!

My little cousins and their parents came on Thursday and have stayed here. They are 12 and 9, just as Bill’s sisters, both girls. So I have spent every day playing lots of things with them, and I haven’t had much free time for me! But I’m having a good time now, though I miss a lot my friends! The weather hasn’t been very good, and it has rained a couple of days, so I haven’t been able to go walking in the forests anymore… 

By the way, in three days is my birthday!!!! I already have my main present, because my parents gave it to me the night before Holland. It’s a camera, because I didn’t have one and my brother was carrying his own, so I wanted to take pictures in Holland! I will buy some clothes and maybe something else if I’m interested. Yesterday was Sant Jordi and today is Oscar’s birthday, these days are full of things! So I will let you know tomorrow about the celebration of Easter, with the “monas”!

See you in the next post!

Song of the day: The Kooks – Always Where I Need To Be

Days in the country!

Heeeey! Today I’m going to go later in the evening to the bar with WiFi in the village, so I will upload all the entries I’ve made and maybe talk with Bill, if he’s online, because we haven’t had the chance to talk yet… So I’ve been here for 3 days, and this morning I’ve gone up to Les Salines, the highest mountain in the surroundings, with 1300 meters. It’s not very high, there isn’t any snow either, but the views from there are really nice. My brother and me started walking at 9:12, and after 7,4 km we arrived there, at 10:28. I have taken some pictures, very beautiful from the forests near the top.

Yesterday we went to Figueres to watch a film called “Sin límites”, about a man who starts taking some pills that make your brain work at 100%, so he wins lots of money and success. You have a good time watching it, and it’s not bad, but there’s no real point in it, no reflections, any second meaning. Well, I’ll let you know some more in a few days!

See you in the next post!

Song of the day: Train – Drops of Jupiter

Setmana Santa!

Setmana Santa has arrived! Today I’m going to Maçanet de Cabrenys, my village in the Pyrenees, and I’ll stay there for the whole week! The bad thing is that I have no internet in there, I have to go to the bar and get the Wi-Fi there…

Last night I started watching a new series, a miniseries actually, called The Pacific. It has won awards, and it’s got only 3 chapters. It’s about the second world war in an island of the Pacific Ocean called Guadalcanal, and it shows how destructive war is, and how it affects to the Marines. I’ve only watched the first part, but I liked it, and I’m looking forward to the next one!

So I have my second trimester grades already! And they are better than the first trimester ones, I got 4 A’s and all the rest with B’s. That’s good, although I think I can do better in the third trimester. Yesterday I went out for lunch with Marina, Arantxa, Oscar, Xavi and the two Uris. We went to Fresc Co, but I ate gnocchi from Pasta Corner… We stayed in the park in front of my house for a while, and then we went to Valero’s house. I was at home at about 7 thirty, and I could talk with Dutch people for the first time. Bill was not online and now that I’m not going to have Internet I’m not going to be able to talk to him… L But I’ll try to come online in some public place and spend some minutes to talk!

See you in the next post!

Song of the day: Jason Mraz – The Remedy

Back To Reality

Today was the first day at school after coming back from Holland, and luckily, as every other wednesday, we didn’t work at all. Yesterday we were aloud to stay at home although there was school, because we arrived very late the night before. So in the morning I went to Elisenda’s house for her birthday. At her place there was her boyfriend, Irene and Mireia, but I didn’t stay long. In about 40 minutes Irene and me left home, as it was almost lunchtime.

When I was at home I was in facebook all time, watching pictures and more pictures about the trip, and I uploaded some too. In the afternoon, at about ten to five I went to school to say hello to everyone, and then I came back home to prepare myself for my basketball training. I didn’t feel like running and jumping, but I had to get used to the normal schedule again. 

So this evening I was doing some homework and I really need something to clear my mind. My thoughts start flying away to Holland every second and I can’t do anything to stop it! I guess it’s just a matter of time to concentrate again in the important things!

Song of the day: Wake Me Up When September Ends

Holland!! Farewell, Last Day

So we knew it had to end someday… Today was the last day in Holland, and everything has happened so fast… But let’s explain how the day was!

I got up a bit earlier because I wanted to take some pictures of the house and the family. I enjoyed everything I did, thinking it was the last time I was going to do it: taking a shower in that bathroom, having breakfast with Bill… Before going down to the kitchen Bill’s father came to shake hands and say goodbye, as he had to leave now. So once I was prepared to go I took my camera and started picturing each corner of the house, except the upper floors, so that I could remember how my exchange was. Finally, I took a Photo of the family: Tessa, Bill, Lobke, Guislaine, the nanny and her husband. I will keep that picture!

Bill’s mother drove us to school with the bags, and we said goodbye then. Some minutes later we left Cals to go to Utrecht by tram and spend the day there. We had some free time when we arrived, as the first group was going up the tower. That was really tiring! We had to go upstairs for 80 meters of height, and those were 465 stairs! But it was worth, the views up there were very beautiful, and we could visit the rooms where the bells were. Even Wessel played a melody with the bells! So after that we went to an indoors-climbing place. It was 60 meters tall and that was too scary for me… I didn’t try to climb, as I’m a bit afraid of heights, but I helped the people in my group, Uri and Adriaan. Uri got to the top of the easiest one and tried also a couple of difficult ones, but always got stuck in the middle, as Adriaan.

We went back to the station; it was time to return to Cals College. When we were there, the Dutch partners told us to wait outside, as they had prepared a little surprise for us. So we waited, talking and trying not to think in the few time we had left. But they said it was all set, and we went in there. Ben was holding his Les Paul, and everyone was in a circle. The Spanish also stayed around them, sitting inside the circle. The surprise was a song: Time Of Your Life, by Green Day. They started to sing it at the same time, all together, and that moment will be in my mind for a lot of time. The song said:

Another turning point;

a fork stuck in the road.

Time grabs you by the wrist;

directs you where to go.

So make the best of this test

and don't ask why.

It's not a question

but a lesson learned in time.

It's something unpredictable

but in the end it's right.

I hope you had the time of your life.

So take the photographs

and still frames in your mind.

Hang it on a shelf

In good health and good time.

Tattoos of memories

and dead skin on trial.

For what it's worth,

it was worth all the while.

It's something unpredictable

but in the end it's right.

I hope you had the time of your life.

My eyes started to get wet and I didn’t want that to happen, not yet. It was so emotive, and I just couldn’t stop some tears falling. When they finished everyone started hugging and saying goodbye. There was an hour left, but it was like seconds, lots of things were happening at the same time. I managed to not cry, and Ben played some more songs, as Wake Me Up When September Ends. We all sang it together, holding hands. When the teacher said the bus had arrived, it was the saddest thing ever. We looked for our bags and once they were inside the bus I started to say a final goodbye to everyone. The last person to say goodbye, just as I was going inside was Bill, it was the third or fourth time we did it. But when I saw them from the windows I realized that it was over, and how much I would miss them. The driver turned on the engine and there was a huge wave goodbye. We got away and when I couldn’t see them from my sit, I just couldn’t stand it anymore and cried silently. After twenty minutes or half an hour Miriam came to sit besides me, and we talked about the most funny and important moments in Holland. We had some laughs and the trip didn’t seem that long.

In the airport we checked in and we didn’t have to wait much. I bought some souvenirs, as I couldn’t buy them anywhere else, and after a while we entered the plane. I sat with Joana. We listened to music during the trip, and we arrived in about two hours. It was half past eleven when we arrived, and at the time we were in the bus from El Prat to the school it was Eli’s birthday. We arrived and our parents were already there. I said hello and went home while I started to explain how everything was.

And that’s it, that was the end of my day, but I don’t think I will easily forget it, neither this nor the people we left in Holland. Sincerely, I think it was the greatest time I had in my life.

Song of the day: Green Day – Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)