Just eight days after my arrival to AMS after a wonderful trip, I flew to BCN on Monday 17th in order to spend the same amount of time - eight days - “back to reality“. During these days I’ve done quite many things, among them meeting my friends, two among them which I hadn’t seen since I’m “Erasmusing”, and my relatives, since it was my brother’s birthday.

What I have realized is that they have been the days in which I have thought the most about my future (i.e. what I’ll do once my Erasmus will come to its end) since I moved to AMS at the end of August.

I have to admit that facing “the reality” again it has been healthy, which doesn’t mean that the “Erasmus experience” is harming my health… uhm, the issue is getting tricky! … ehem, I mean that it made me realize how “switched off” I’ve been in AMS.

In a way, being back (my real) home allowed me to clear (a bit) my mind regarding what will come further that (mental) abyss towards which time is pushing me…

..yeah, I’m starting to realize that I will be able to fly before reaching the edge!… yeah, I won’t fall! I’ll bridge the gulf!… yeah, I’ll fly over that ocean of nostalgia!… memories help oneself to fly when you look towards the future, memories only push you down when you try to fly looking backwards…

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En aquest primer blok del segon semestre havia pensat en fer un parell d’assignatures: Macroeconomics Monetary and Fiscal Policy (333BEU) i European Economic Integration (221BE).

La raó de cursar Macroeconomics Monetary and Fiscal Policy és que a la UPF es convalida per l’assignatura obligatòria Macroeconomia II, mentre que la segona la volia fer perquè és un tema que m’agrada. Però, resulta que els respectius examens coincideixen el mateix dia i hora, quelcom que - per sorpresa meva - des de la FEB (Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde) se’m va dir que m’impedia examinar-me de les dues, ni farien un examen especial per a mi en una altra data ni em deixarien fer el mateix dia un darrere l’altre sota supervisió…

Així que - “com que la UvA no vol que estudiï” em vaig dir - vaig haver de deixar, amb recança, European Economic Integration ja que l’altra era l’obligatòria.

Davant aquesta perspectiva em va passar pel cap treballar però, tot i que vaig rebre una oferta laboral per a treballar al call center de Tom Tom, vaig haver de rebutjar-la perquè em demanaven un compromís que no podia assumir (1 any) i, de cara als examens de juny de la UPF, tampoc em convenia molt - tot i que m’hagués agradat, per l’experiència i els calers! - .

I ara toca aprovar l’examen de “macro”, que està “xungo”!

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A bubble inside another bubble, that’s the image that came to my mind when flying back to AMS yesterday’s evening after having enjoyed the last 9 days between Wien and Slovenija…

Typing about these wonderful days spent abroad (I mean, abroad from AMS) would take a lot of time, there’s so much to be explained and I wouldn’t like to miss any detail!. In fact, now I regret not writing down in my notebook those thoughts and impressions that several times I came up with. Neither I took note of what I did each day. So it would take me quite a lot of time to put my memories in order and structure a narration of those that can be explained.

That’s why this time I won’t write a post explaining what I did and I’d rather prefer to have a conversation about my experience while having a drink with any who would like to know about them…

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