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As I wrote already in my last post my girlfriend broke up with me a little while ago. I'm not mad that it happened just how it happened. Again I'm keeping my promising not writing about it. It's no secret that this breakup took quite a big toll on me and I struggled a lot and still am to be honest. After trying couple of things to cheer me up - e.g. I bought one of those happier in 30 days things which didn't work out at all - I realized the one thing that actually made me feel happy again was music. Which is what I want to talk about today. The first few weeks were the hardest for me and the only days when I got home feeling ok  was Thursdays. Thursdays I'm taking singing lessons and I have to say Joana teaches me well. And no, I won't record myself or anything. This is for me only to exit my comfort zone. When I was a kid or a teenager to be more specific I wanted to be a YouTube star. Back then there was the thing coming up with copyright and that you

A little while ago my girlfriend broke up with me. It's for the better so I'm ok, thanks for asking. However, I was a bit devastated after that, sobbing and crying almost every night - yeah, I know; what a loser. I promised her I wouldn't write about her so I won't do that or about what happened. While I was "recovering" from the break up I realized that a break up has similar stages as the Kübler-Ross model; for people who don't know it, it's the "five stages of grief": denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. This got me thinking about break ups in general and how I act during such times and how people treat one that just got dumped with all that "oh no" and "it'll be better" shit. Well, obviously, it's just this annoying transition phase that sucks. Well, the order of the stages were a bit different for me though and some stages I went through more than once. I'm not a psychologist or any

A little while ago my good friend Daniel told me about that idea of his and I would be lying if I said I liked it. I freaking loved it. I was amazed by it - and actually I am thinking of stealing the idea and doing it on my own. The idea He bought an empty book. A really nice book, leather cover, nice grip of the paper, a real bees knees, if you know what I mean. And this book is meant to go around. How far, we don't know. It works like this:  You get the book from whoever, you write a little bit about yourself and how you met the person you got the book from. You add a picture of yourself and then you pass it on to the next person. In the end you have a book filled with entries of people, hopefully, around the world with all kinds of different stories, maybe even languages and whatsoever. The Journey So I, understandably, got hyped about the idea and I kind of was pushing him to fulfill it - which consisted of a one time question of mine "yo, what's up

One post every six months, that's a good quote I guess. Actually I completely forgot about this blog as I had nothing new to tell (which I already cried about in my post before). Anyway, a friend of mine texted me for my birthday and then we chatted a bit and she asked me about it. While I was reading a bit through the posts I got a bit sentimental and actually I enjoyed writing stuff down - hence my notebook/diary/journey, call whatever you want. However, I did do some planning over the last few years - it would be alarming if I hadn't. So my current idea is: Japan. - にほんご話すません - I know, but I'm on it. A good friend here in Barcelona is pushing me towards this goal which is great. He has been to Japan a couple of times and is giving me all kinds of good tips on how to get a visa, what to look out for and how to look for jobs etc. For this どうもありがとう。 In case you wonder why Japan, I got you covered: I have no clue. I'm not a huge anime fan, sure I watched one or

A little bit over a year has passed since I came home from my backpacking journey. Features in Google Photos or Facebook remind of you the pictures you took/uploaded a year (or longer), so I’m always reminded of the crazy things I did a year ago. Now I sit in an office and explain idiotic people how the internet works. Is it worth it? About a week or two ago, I was talking to one of my coworkers about backpacking. We both would like to go to South East Asia. I’m still keen to go to Japan. It’s something completely different and I really want to have that “culture shock” moment. I did not really have that in South America. For my birthday last year my brother got me this scratch map which I think was the best gift I got that year (also because I wanted to buy it myself and this way I saved some money). After scratching off all the places I’ve been to I realized: There’s still a lot of blank space on the map. And I’ve been backpacking for over a year. At this point I have to say t

Still going happily forward in my new (hopefully) future profession I did the 3rd part of the pre course and only now I found out that this is the end of module one, out of four … ugh. Just take a deep breath and keep on going. Anyhow, this one is something I have pretty much no experience at all. I do am excited about this and judging my level of English I will have to focus more on this point during the course. As every time experience makes you better or as we say “no master has fallen from the sky”. As before they asked you to watch a video about a teacher who talked about a successful English lesson she held. Afterwards they asked you to answer these questions: 1) Why did the learners enjoy the listening? 2) What was useful and engaging about the questions Amy had designed for the interview? 3) What was she doing while they did the interview activity? What do you think she was listening for? Actually, the answers to those questions are quite simple. She enjoyed because

The second part of my journey of pursuing a long-held dream of mine was to reminisce how it is to learn a language. The idea/goal of this is to think back when you learned English (or a foreign language in general) and about the difficulties you had. Which tricks you pulled out of your sleeve to help you with it. Which ideas/techniques were best and which completely bad so that you can use said techniques to teach and help others to learn. The section is divided into three simple questions: 1. Where did you learn? 2. What helped you learn? 3. Were there any negative aspects that made it more difficult to learn or less enjoyable? In the end they put a video of a Ted talk about learning languages with 5 great techniques to learn a language, which turned out I’ve been doing all 5 of them when I learned Spanish. I was really surprised and I can confirm that it works as you can see from my español muy bueno. Anyhow, I thought I’d share the five techniques with yo