Diary of a Wanderer

(Written 16th November) This last week seems to have provided me with a massive learning curve… I was offered a position in Sardinia that I had randomly applied for before I came to Galicia to start next Monday. They wanted me to leave my job here (2weeks before the end of my contract) to start there before their new classes started. Talk about being put in a dilemma- this indecisive Pisces spent her 24 hours off weighing up pros and cons. In the end I decided that it wasn’t fair to leave my current job with less than one week’s notice and that I actually liked the people I work with and would feel pretty guilty letting them down. Plus, since going to Barcelona I have for some reason become quite passionate about learning Spanish, and Italian doesn’t really have the same appeal. It took a while, but I finally got there- I was going to turn the job down. I headed to my laptop 15minutes later to find a new email sitting in my inbox offering me to start in Sardinia in January… Talk abo...

(Written 20 th November) So it is true that my post-uni visions had mostly encompassed chasing summer around the world and attaining a year long tan. Galicia has without a doubt proven to be the exact opposite. But there is no doubt that this little place has a slight charm about it and it is certainly rubbing off on me. If I hadn’t taken this job, it is fair to say the chances of me visiting such a small village in Spain and experiencing a bit of life in the North are pretty non-existent. I haven’t regretted my decision in the slightest. If anything I have learnt that the weather will never put me off doing anything ever again and I have been given the time to pursue the development of random skills like juggling… I’m actually getting the hang of it. The group of people I am working with are pretty bloody nice and so far I have been able to manage the groups of kids I have each week *touch wood*. All in all I really cannot complain. I have been given plenty of time to plan my next...