Choice is change and change is choice....my new saying for the day!I cannot believe that I leave in a week! I have become so settled being here, and know shop owners by name! My days usually start with a ballet class at the end of my road. Collecting fruit from the shop on the way home. Going to school most mornings, apart from the last week where we have been looking for children. Then a little nap in the afternoons before teaching English in the evenings.
Weekends are usually at the beach, or wandering around the Plaza de Armas, chatting to the most random of people, and occasionally buying food for the ones who are sleeping on the street. Sometimes watching a film at the local cinema, pot luck to whether it will be in Spanish or in English with Spanish sub titles.... On Sundays I go to a little corner shop to buy water, oreos and a phonecard, each week the same. Amazing how in the madness of it all, there are things that are so familiar.
I love the little coffee shop that has the best chocolate cake in town. The book shop that sells second magazines and books. The Internet cafe that now gives me 15 minutes extra on my time, and saves my stuff on their computers. The man on the corner who always stops a taxi for me and opens the door. The post office lady, that knows what I want before I ask. The friends I have made and see during the week for a bit of Spanglish in return. The church I go to, where most words are not know, but now end up staying for an hour chatting....
In just three months I have this world. This place that I call home for now, and in a week it will end. I have realised how lucky I am to have been part of this world. To discover the little shops, places and people that have affected me and helped me survive.
To live in a place is to discover, to visit a place is to see.
6 comments:
wow, that was quite a moving blog!
Have just worked out you can reply!
What deep rich sentiment. It put me in my own rich place and isn't it amazing that we can put each other in the best of ourselves. Thanks.
This is a beautiful memory, my lovely. But remember, people only respond to you in this way because you're you and you bring out the smile moments in them!
Thank you for sharing your world what an amazing journey you are on
I can not believe that it is time to come home already. Travel safe
Conny that was beautiful what you wrote. Sounds like you had an amazing time and it was what you needed oh and I love the saying down the bottom!!!! xx
so special you are and that spreads such joy to everyone!! and never to be forgotten. Thanks angel for sharing it all with us, the pain of learning the blog was well worth it - and LOVED your sayings. Getting to be full of wisdom, you are:-)
and before you soldier on...here#s one from me which I have relaised you are already doing:
To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget." : Allan Clements World Dharma
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