Practical explanation of the rule: DO NOT mix Tequila

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About Sadness

I use to say that we should not hide and deny the "negative" feelings, such as sadness. I believe they make part of a healthy life, and with this I don't mean that we should look for them, I just mean that when they come we should accept them and embrace them as a proof that we are alive. In that sense that deep sadness I was feeling just before leaving Budapest and those tears I cried I took them as a positive symbol: They were just a great proof of how good my life was there, and how lucky I was to meet many amazing people.

First week in Grenoble - impression

It's been one week here in Grenoble. I'm really happy I found a flat before arriving (thousands of thanks Simon!), because I've seen some people having tough time looking for affordable places to stay.
The flat where I live is close to the university, it's just 5-7 minutes walking. The neighbourhood is quiet, grocery stores and little bars arround. The only thing about the flat is that doesnt have a proper division between the "rooms", so each of us has its own space, desk, bed, gardrobe and all these, but we are not accustically isolated. But as there is nothing to do about it we better get used to it and we take it easy. I live with an English guy who is also going to the same University and so far I'm happy living with him, we get along pretty well.

My first impressions of living in France aren't many and sadly almost all of them of them are comparasion, which is not good and not fare, I know, but still those are. French take the holidays and the lunch time really serious, I think that's nice but it makes you feel like in a tiny town, and when you come from a capital city it makes you feel like you went backwards.
Last week was like all days were sundays (and sundays are like the end of the world), because many French were still in holidays and arabs were in Ramadan. This week seems different, more students have arrived (more pretty girls in the street ;) ) and city seem to wake up finally.
Regarding to legal stuff everything seems in slow motion. I'm still without cell-phone and without internet in the flat (annoying point), I need a bank card and a check book to get them, I hope it will arrive this week, then I have to buy the Internet-box and then wait again maximum 10 days for activation. So I'll stay disconnected at home.

The student comunity seems nice, people from everywhere and for different programs, surpricingly I havent meet my first classmate, but at least we already played football :D.
In general I'm happy here, just a bit dissapointed things work sooo slow, and that I can hardly get food on the street after grabing some beers :P.

Sorry I didnt put any picture, I havent taken any yet.

I'm not going to give a qualification to the city yet, I still have to give it more time, meanwhile I just can say: I love you Budapest, you still being the best!.

About leaving

To leave Budapest was not easy, the last day was pretty tough. That moment when you say goodbye to those people who loved you and that you are quite certain you won't see them again in the same circumstances, that moment is when you really want to cry and when indeed you cry. I did, I cried when I was alone in my flat, I cried like a child with deep sadness when all my material belongings where packed into 3 luggages, when I realized my time and my life in Budapest were over.

Since a while ago I'd been preparing myself for that step, I'd seen how hard it could be and the crisis you can fall in after leaving. In Budapest you get used to say goodbye to people, and sadly but honestly, to forget about them a little bit. This is the way it works there, the city moves at a rhythm that doesnt allow you to think much nor to do much besides enjoying life.

I've thought a lot about it, and I think the sad part about leaving Budapest is not precisely that you won't see again the city or your friends. I'm sure I'll see them again someday somewhere and I'm sure I'll be back there. But what will never be back for me are the circumstances in which I lived there. The city, the friends (who become your family), the job, the housing routine, the age, the goals, the opportunities,...the mixture between all those things were what changed my life and what made my time in Budapest the best time in my life so far. And I have to accept that it won't happen again.

So what I can say about leaving that city is that: Budapest, in that meaning, has died for me.

Which doesn't mean I don't love it anymore, or that I forgot about it, just that I have to accept it as thought a beloved one passes away.

And as it's said in my country "El muerto al hoyo y el vivo al baile" (the dead one to the hole and the living one to the party). I just have to look forward, and be grateful for what I had.

About writing

It's disappointing that the moments when I feel like writing are those when I don't have a place to do so, and then when I sit in front of the computer all the ideas (and motivations) are gone.

He left as he lived

Few great people have the chance to say goodbye on the same way they lived.
Hugo Delgado, a quite special specimen from Maracaibo - Venezuela, a party animal, a party beast, a Maracucho that made us party, dance and laugh more than one year, said goodbye to us and to Budapest with the greatest party of 2011, at least many of us believe so.

The best thing about it:  it was not planned, that's why we love being Latin, we don't plan, we just let it be, let the party be. At last time he decided to hold his farewell party in our favorite Irish Pub, where on saturdays we always have great time with the live band. To our surprise this time there was no live music, but a KARAOKE, which was the perfect excuse to take the microphone and jump to the stage. We went thinking about listening some music but look how we ended up ...

Great karaoke night, great time, great party, great friends, great family.

Hugo, vergación maracucho!!!, Gracias por tantos buenos momentos!!  lo que te quiero es V.......


Pictures taken by Julita Maternowska, dziękuję bardzo!!!

Reto: Limpiar las regiones

Excelente articulo de Claudia Lopez acerca de los retos politicos que tiene el gobierno para lograr verdaderos cambios a nivel nacional

En otras palabras, mientras la gobernabilidad nacional tolere y dependa del status quo de la ingobernabilidad regional, no habrá desarrollo ni Estado consolidado en Colombia