Friday, September 18, 2009

Does she arrive to the Netherlands?

Wow! There are almost three months and I hadn't appeared before!
Sorry, but this arrival took me more than expected.

I was reading my last post in order to get the sequence again and I found tons of words, expressing how confused I was before coming here. Now I think about it and I consider that it is quite normal. I was scared, excited, worried, and happy and the fact of being broken hearted didn't help.

I arrived to NL at the beginning of June and I found in the airport of Brussels, 6 amazing and tall individuals waiting for me. They were they people I'm currently working: my MC team. Afterwards, we were the next two days in team days; getting to know each other and trying to build our team.
On Monday, I went to my first day of transition and I met the former MC! They were also great people from whom I learned quite a lot.



Next weeks passed really quickly, among take over sessions, AI transition party, first AB meeting and first days at the office. I was kind of lost in Rotterdam, always taking the wrong train, metro or tram. Besides, my bike was stolen, so I had to walk to everywhere for some days :(.

Some days after was time for getting prepared for IC; so, I started all exchange related initiatives for IC and other fun stuff, such as buying stroopwafels, dropjes and a lot of alcohol for the Dutch windmill game. Also, I got a very nice and typical Dutch outfit (please check the picture). Malaysia truly Asia was awesome!!! I like it a lot, mostly the FOOD! Indian, chinese and malayan food in 1 country, I just love it. We travelled around for 3 days before the conference, trying to relax a little bit after a lot of weeks of take over and hard work. at the end, we were even more tired but vey excited for the conference.



IC was wonderful! I met with old friends around the world what made me feel old in @!~but still, I enjoyed it a lot. Fortunately and as we say in Colombia (culo de leche), I shared my room with Luisa and Lore!!!! I was so so happy :) we spent such a great time, talking about our experiences in KZ, Belgium and NL, about boys, about us! Somos exitosas, estamos donde queremos y hacemos lo que queremos

Now I'm back in the Netherlands, working a lot and enjoying every moment. I promise I'll be back, writing some other stories!!!!

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Y cuando creiste haberlo visto todo ya ...

Nos gastamos mas de la mitad de la vida buscando a alguien que se parezca tanto a nosotros, para que nos lo llevemos a la casa y podamos emprender una especie de aventura sentimental. Pero siempre decimos que tiene que ser igual a mi, como si nosotros fueramos la gran cosa!
De repente a uno le pasa que despues de un rato de tratar de conseguir a gente asi, uno descubre que despues de un tiempo ella sale del cuarto, saca la cebeza y dice noche, y uno le contesta dia: porque si nada mas! Uno le dice blanco, ella dice negro; a uno le gusta el futbol, a ella le gusta el beisbol,
Y entonces uno comienza a cometer errores: uno trata de largarse del lugar , voltea a ver y se supone que tendria que estar, pero se largo antes que nosotros.
Uno va y busca por la vida un nuevo camino y se busca a una mujer que se parezca mucho a nosotros, una que le guste el futbol tambien. Y se consigue a una chica que le guste el furbol y ella se consigue a un tipo que le guste el beisbol y cada uno emprende su nuevo camino.
A mi me paso y era impresionante cuando empece a salir con esta chica porque yo decia, hoy tengo ganas de no se, como de ir al cine y ella me decia es justo lo que estaba pensando, yo tambien quiero ir al cine. Ibamos a un bar y yo pedia un tequila y ella decia, yo tambien quiero un tequila, me encanta el tequila.
entonces se convirtio todo en algo tan martavilloso, y tal organizado y tan perfecto, que me bastaron tan solo 14 dias para aburrirme totalmente de aquella mujer. Mientras por el otro lado, la que se fue con el beisbolista estaba padeciendo la misma historia, solo que ella aguanto un poquito mas que yo: aguanto quince dias.
Al dia numero 16, nos hablamos por telefono, nos citamos en un cafe, charlamos por un rato, y llegamos a la maravillosa conclusion que para ser amigos es importantisimo ser bastante parecidos y afines, pero para ser amantes y amarse, no hay nada mejor en el mundo que ser distintos... por eso escribi esta cancion ...

Ricardo Arjona
QUIEN DIRIA!