Let me introduce..

I have only known my new housemate Daneff for about ten days but I have grown very fond of her in this short time, she’s a psychologist so we share a lot of strange analytical interests, we also share meals and great conversations and I am really appreciating her company.

So, when Daneff and her Argentinian buddy Martín were here Monday night, getting ready to leave for Sevilla, Daneff took the responsibility of introducing me to this new friend and it went, traduced to english, like this:

“She’s Polish but she doesn’t drink beer, she lives in Sweden but she always thinks it’s cold.. and she’s supposed to be European but she’s warm, close and loving like a Latina.”

Haha.. Nice summary, Daneff. Ya ven, te extraño!

La Metamorfosis

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I found Kafka (The Metamorphosis, 1915) in Spanish in the bookshelf of my new apartment and I decided to give it a try. So far it has been quite confusing but also amusing and I’m still hanging in there.

I love big bookshelves filled with books left behind by random people and I always look for them all over when travelling. Now, the fact of actually having one, filled with gems I always wanted to read – in the language I want to practice, in my own livingroom is really just another reason for not wanting to leave this magical city.

I love the fact that the choices I need to make now all are realities I really look forward to engage in. Now it’s just about deciding what alternatives I actually have and choosing the most exciting and fruitful one and see to which other places and alternatives it takes me.

I don’t agree when people tell me that I’m lucky to be encountering new opportunities all the time. I am thankful and happy about having the possibility to travel and move and search, but there are always alternatives, possibilities and choices. And with the risk of sounding pretentious, I do want to state that it is a fact that is general for most people, and that you just need to choose to look for them and dare to jump on that moving train when it passes by instead of letting life get in your way. If you enjoy change, that is. Change and development and new experiences.

Salar de Uyuni

One time I bought myself a Charango in Bolivia. Then I took a 12 hour bus from La Paz to the Salt deserts of Uyuni and learnt how to play “el condor pasa” in the sun.

There are some moments one can just live, re-live and appreciate, endlessly. I am trying to collect as many of these as possible and it’s a never ending project that I love living.

Goodnight!

Little Girl Blue

Nina Simone is really good company. Here are three songs from her first album, Little Girl Blue, released in 1958. The last clip is a claymation video produced by Aardman Animations in 1987 for one of the songs from the album. High quality jazz – Enjoy!



Nina Simone – Love me or Leave me


Nina Simone – Mood Indigo

Nina Simone – My baby just cares for me
Little Girl Blue (1958)
Video directed by Peter Lord, produced by Aardman Animations (1987)