Hey there!!!
I'm back in Spain again, and I'm right now in the process of looking for a job. And is summer, so all the people needed for this period is already hired and I'm at home, hand over hand, doing nothing else than think, clean and frustrate myself.
The job in Derry was not what I thought it would be. More of being in the bar than in the kitchen, where I was "helping" just on the weekends. The first weeks were a bit rough, because I kept wondering if I should ask for a change of placement, but then, one day, suddenly...I started looking at things through another glass.
The walk from the bus stop to the cottage was beautiful, and I bonded with some horses on a field nearby and fell absolutely in love with them. The people working there...wow, they were like a big family, and they made me feel like I belong to that family too. Sheena was like my mum, with the benefit of not really being it, so we could joke about everything. Kieran wasn't like my dad, but he was always a calm presence that kept all glued together. His wife, Marina, was so funny, and Kara, their daughter, was a lovely tiny girl.
The first day I made the tea in the morning, I knew that I wanted to stay.
Maybe I didn't cook as much as I would've liked, but it was the best experience in my life, for the first time, I could be myself without prestablished conceptions, no one expected nothing about me...so it was like having a blank page before me, and I could choose the color of the ink, the writing... And they liked it!!! People loved me for me, not for being their daughter, their grandaughter, their niece, their classmate for years, and it was amazing.
I cannot wait for experience that again. I don't mind where, Ireland, Scotland, England...maybe even Spain!!!
