First Steps in BCN

It is my first time that I post here something about myself. If I am doing it, it’s probably because I want to share my former experience and how it continues or maybe just because I just feel like doing it. When it comes to travel, there are certain things you have to expect. But you also expect something more. You want stories to tell. You want adventures to remember. You want travel that inspires and surprises. My story is really complicated but to summarize I come from Ecuador (really little country in South-America but an amazing place), I did most of my studies in France in Brittany (next to Normandy). Also, I was chosen to be part of the Erasmus program in the Netherlands in Maastricht (Between Liege and Aachen). And I am currently doing my first internship in Barcelona. (Everyone knows where is located but in case someone does not know where Barcelona is, just look it up on google). When I landed in Barcelona my expectancies were mixed. I did not know what I was looking for and what this city was about to teach me. The first couple of weeks were really hard for me. I landed in this city and many problems started to arrive at the same time. I had the feeling of struggling and I could not see myself finding the best way to solve all these problems. Therefore, a feeling of repulsion for this city came to me. Day by day, things were far from being solved. Nevertheless, I started to appriciate and enjoy Barcelona. This city is teaching me new things I have never thought about it before and which were not part of me. People I have met here are incredible and we always do something together. It is strange; it’s like a little community of international interns that are always doing something together after work. It’s such an International city that becoming Barcelonian would actually mean becoming more European or more International. Barcelona is also the first city that hosts Italians, (even my roommate is Italian). Now, instead of speaking Catalan or Spanish, I am learning Italian in Spain (does not make any sense). Think I had the opportunity before but I did not take advantage of it. Besides those problems I have, BCN is teaching me how to actually don’t care about them. Imagine a tsunami coming straight ahead to you and you just stand there without moving believing that it’s only a nice and fresh shower. It may be like this at the end. I am enjoying it and of course BCN is teaching me how to live with it.