Holidays.

Alicante.

I love being on the sun, I mean once a year. 

few months back I started my little research in order to prepare this years summer vacation. We had some criteria: should be a rather cheap stay, for two weeks and of course had to offer Spanish course, we didn't want to go somewhere we were on holidays before.

I made a demand to our beloved Language Abroad, we got to choose mainly between Marbella and Alicante, we had direct flights to both cities but at the end we decided to give a try to Alicante.

It is a medium sized city in Costa Blanca, many Spanish come here to their summer flats ( what you do not a have a flat at the seaside, come on!) it is full of little restaurants, shops, and it is surviving due to tourism.

In order to enjoy your stay you should just bare in mind one thing: tourist is a different species with different rights- once you understand this you will enjoy your holiday in lively Alicante.

As there are not loads of hotels and as we like to have our little kitchen to prepare bocadillas and other tasty tapas we decided to share a flat with other students. Our flat is located probably about 2 km from the beach (at least we get to lose some calories!!) and 300 m from our Spanish school. 

It is very interesting to get to live in a real flat in a real building in the city centre. I use to share a house with students during my Erasmus but it was nothing like the flat we are in now. It is probably 80 m large, has 3 bedroom a big living room, a bathroom and a kitchen. 

The funny thing Is that it is on the 4th floor and the staircase is so narrow that I really can't imagine how did they manage to get there furniture. 

Once in the flat you notice that the building forms sort of a triangle and in the middle you have windows giving the windows of our neighbors, the people use this space to dry their laundry and basically have no privacy at all. You can here anything that is happening in the building- at this point I stop to complain about thin walls in Poland- it is not bad!!

The great thing about Alicante (unlike in Valencia) is that city centre with all great restaurants and little, charming passages is located just steps away from the beach. I find it pretty expensive (as our last summer was in Mexico and everything was way cheaper, we compare). Spanish say that Alicante is cheap- ok if a very low salary is 800 euros and teachers earn like 2000 euros net, the rent is from 300- 500 than yes I agree it is cheap.

However, for us (and no, it is not complaining) with slightly different salaries it is pretty expensive. You should count a diner for 2 from 30-50 euros. You can get cheap fruit and vegetables, fish, sea food in mercado central (in Poland big malls are cheaper than mercados, here just the opposite). 

I simply love holidays! 

July 2013

Strange feeling.

It is somehow a strange feeling, this is the first July I remember spent without Lines and it feels weird. 

Not because I am so terribly missing it but rather because there where many changes in my life recently. 

It's been almost a year that I've been living with P, almost 10 months that I'm a corpo wannabe and I am actually having summer holidays in July- wow!

I assume this is the Normal reality, without summer jobs and endless trips.

For now I enjoy It but I can't help not checking what is on at Lines- I didn't realize how big part of my life it was- 11 summers?? 

Identity.

I smell french, 

I wear English, 

I work Indian, 

my lifestyle is American and 

my nationality is Polish.

So who am I?

I am me

Little talks.

            What is it G?

Well, I don't really know to be honest. 

What you mean you don’t know?

I simply don’t know, I don’t understand… I have had a feeling that I know him but know I feel I don’t at all….

How is it even possible? Did he say something?

No not really, he just didn’t want to do something very tiny but very important to me.

Why not?

Principles.

That’s it?

Yes, I think he didn’t want to do it just to show me that this is the way he is and that’s it.

So nothing really happened…

Well I want to think so… but you see … it made me realize that if something so tiny is a problem then what will happen with something bigger…

Come on… stop inventing things.

I will- I just can’t sleep.

Margaux in wonderland

After perfect Mexican holidays we are back to reality.

It has been some time ago already. We actually manage to have another quick trip to Autstria in the meantime.

My life is perfect now, it feels very good to be happy.

I feel loved, needed and enjoy all those feelings- I sometimes fear that is not for long but then I quickly remind myself that we are the creators of our lives…

So after my big dilemma here I am as a corpo wannabe- so funny at the end of the day.

It is exactly the way I saw corpos- rat race, little arrangmenet between those who are priviliged, everybody is complaining about salaries, work environment etc.

Working as a Customer Service Officer is hard but not unsupportable ! we all knew what job we take, we all know that french market (for which we are working) is one of the thoughest and we should all be not surpirised that they expect us actually to work.

I think it’s funny- I am being impatient about renegotiating the contract (I signed it until april).

xoxo

Paradise

They went to the Beach and felt so happy, so happy they could die.

I can't describe what I felt when the first evening we went to see the sea, we left our hotel, passed all the mexicans who are the most motivated sellers I have ever seen, once they see somebody with a brighter skin they start they spectacle:

-'hey sir how is you vacation going? how was the beach today? hey man how are you?'

Then we only had to cross la Quinta avenida to step on the bright and delicate sand.

The moon was so big and bright, it was shining on the sea, from far we could hear some live music...

I was speechless and felt so happy... The more was to come.

Sosnowiec- Warszawa- Frankfurt- Cancun- Playa del carmen

Finally the day of our trip came, after spending two months of holiday working and looking for a job we were off to Mexico, first we took a train to get to Warsaw, where we discovered that they have built a direct train taking you from central station right to the airport- what a nice, comfortable and cheap surprise!
Then we spent some night hours waiting for our first plane t Frankfurt, at first there were not many people, they started to arrive around 3 in the morning to tale charters to some famous destinations.
Happily we were in frankfurt we flew with lot with a little, nice embraer, then we had some troubles with gate changes, to our surprise condor just before embarquing chacked the weight of our hand luggage, fortunately they didn't weigh bf's backpack- with camera, computers, chargers etc we were way beyond 12 allowed kilos.
The flight was like forever, after my klm flight to japan I thought that all long flights would be the same- I expected my little tv to watch some movies!
The plane was smaller then expected (2-3-2) as a result there weren't tv for each seat- but it didnt really matter...
In general the flight went ok- the airport in cancun wasn't as nice, for sure!
We were stuck at immigration for 2 hours, waiting waiting waiting, it's just that there were probably 8 officers for like thousands of people and you know after a long flights it's really nothing you want to do!!
We finally got to our nice hotel and the holiday started....