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Things I want from life
Obviously this is what I think i want at 25, and I've tried to be nonspecific and thing about the root of all my ideas and worries and what realy feel most strongly about with them. In other words at the moment I'm really interested in the Teach First program, but that may change and I know the core desire it's born out of is the fact that I ( Read more... ) -
Dream of a place called home.
I'm 25 years old and I don't think I've ever had a sense of place. I always planned to leave Switzerland, even during the parts of my teens when I was relatively happy, but when I got to the UK I definitely felt like one of the international students, a little outside it all, never entirely British, always a bit of a half breed ( Read more... ) -
The state of the world today
Rendered amusingly in a "Cole porter protest song" : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-M6x9beOTg&feature=relmfu -
Barcelona! it was the first time that we met... well second
Ok so the train from Sevilla to Barcelona is about 5 hours and not too arduous. Barcelona itself is rife with pickpockets, so the first thing I did when i got out of the train is make things as difficult as possible for them ( Read more... ) -
Spain's Paris
Ok, so I took a taxi from the station to... right near the hostel where the street got too narrow and the taxi driver left me with a "it's first on the left love" (Spanish equivalent, of course). Although not as cool as Makuta Backpackers inn in Granada, Sevillainn is in a great location, right at the centre of the old town, with a roof terrace ( Read more... ) -
And now for something completely different: Cordoba
I'm not quite sure what I was expecting from Cordoba, but it wasn't what I got at first impression. I suppose I was expecting more of the old world sleepy beauty of granada, where most of the buildings are old, and those in the centre are shiny and new...but carefully created to mirror the older architecture, with grandiose marble pavements and ( Read more... ) -
Granada: Slightly more informative.
To start with my alarm didn'tgo off, I rushed to the station, tipped the taxi driver a fiver because I had no time to wait for change and managed to catch the train by the skin of my teeth. Perhaps this all should have been a sign ( Read more... ) -
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So much for relaxing for therest of the trio and celebrating without a care in the world, just had my wallet knicked right out of my baG while I was wearing it ( Read more... ) -
FIGJAM
Well that acronym feels appropriate right now, since I just lined up my job for September/October (they aren't quite sure when they want me from yet, but the important part is they want me). It's a good firm, bigger than the last one, about 40 people as opposed to 6, but still not crazy huge. It didn't feel quite as friendly as the first ( Read more... )
