Coming back to Spain Yesterday I came back to Santander, my home town. It was two weeks ago when I decided to leave Dublin and come back home for different reasons, so I booked my flight. As most of students, I had accumulated a lot of stuff last months, but I just booked one suitcase to get into the aircraft cellar -the other one would go with me-. However, when I was packing my suitcase I realised that I had three backpacks with 15, 10 and 10 kilos. Fortunately, when I was in the queue of the boarding gate I saw an irish guy who didn´t have any suitcase or bag, and I asked to him if he didn´t mind carring on with my backpack to pass the control. And he didn´t mind so I saved the 60 euros fine.

Leaving Dublin next week. Yes, I´m leaving Dublin. And I´m looking for other guy who takes my room. And here is the problem: my roomates want to choose the new housemate between a lot of candidates. They want the perfect one. They prefer some nationalities to others and with a good command of english language. They don´t want to share with girls beacuse they are already three girls in the house and they want to keep a balance between male and female. And they have other preferences that, in my opinion, are a shame and I can´t write here. On the other hand, I don´t mind who is going to take my room. And I don´t want to waste the time of all this desperated people who is looking for accomodation in Dublin. I had to do the same seven months ago and it was one of the worst experience in my life. And I know that this situation is happening in the cities around the world beacuse it is getting very common to share a house. So I hope that people who are looking for housemate forget their prejudices and choose the first kind guy/girl who visit the flat.

Living in Dublin I have been living in Dublin for seven months and the temperture has never been over 15 degrees. This fact for a spanish guy as I am is depressing. I had visited several countries throughout the north of europe but I had never lived in one of them. And know I realise how different is the life here than in Spain. At least how different was this winter, which, by the way, was the colder winter for last 15 years in Ireland. At the beginning, in September, everything were amazing. It was so easy to meet new friends from around the world and practice your english with them. But in last months all my friends have left Dublin, one follow the other. That´s the problem here. You meet people, students in the most cases, you become friends, and then they left. Why?, beacuse they wanted to stay here just some months to improve their english and continue their lives in their countries.

My new discovery I was looking for a good website where I could exchange language with other peoplefor weeks . A good one where you could meet people from other countries and with different cultures, correct their texts and be corrected, talk on skype. To sum up, a website which would give a full experience at the same time I improve my english. And eventually, yesterday, I found Italki. Even this morning I was amazed with this website. It´s awesome how collaborative the users are here. I wrote some texts and in just half an hour other users had corrected my essays. I was chatting with people from other countries so far way, and I hope to talk on skype with some of them next days. I was correcting the writings of others as well. I never saw something like that, at least for free. I think Italki is a really good example about big things which can be done in internet to help people and enrich their lifes.

My roomates I´m living in a shared room with four other housemates. Upstairs we live a couple of italians in one room, a girl from Ukrain and me. Downstairs, a bulgarian girl lives in a room beside the kitchen. Despite of being very different, with different characters and culture, our relationship is really good and we have not had any fights for months. Just one day it was a little argument because nodody threw away the rubbish. On the other hand, we used to having dinner together and share the food. Sometimes, when there is something to celebrate, some of us cook something typical of his/her country. Well, I have to say that I don´t like cooking and I´m too lazzy to cook for all of them. But, anyway, they have to understand that in Spain we love to go out and eat out, and we don´t like to spend too much time cooking. At least as much as italians do.

Economic Crisis in Spain In Spain the economic situation is not good at all. Nowadays, most of my friends and I are unemployed and part of them without a clear future. The lastest news coming from Cypus are not better. European Union is going to take part of the savings from the citizens to pay the debt of the country as it already happened in Argentina years ago. At first, that´s not a problem for us, but we are frightened beacuse the European Union is gonna rescue us next year and we don´t know the terms and conditions of this recue. So we are hesitating if it would better take our savings and transfer it to a foreigner bank account. Other options would be to buy a house or to take out the money and put it under your bed as our grandparents did so many years ago.

cover letter I´m living in Dublin for the last six months and I have improved my english a lot. I think that I have upper-intermediate level and I would like to get advanced level. But this step is not as easy as I thought. You need to talk with native speakers everyday and if you succeed in it, it´s possible that you are would manage to speak fluency english in other six months. Of course that this is not a fix law, beacuse some people is capable of speaking really good in few months. This is the case of people who have learnt two or three lenguages when they were childs. But, apart to that, what I think is very important is the motivation. Yes, if you are really motivated, you will do everything to talk everyday, you will study hard and you will mix with native people.