Spring is here!

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Spring is here and we have to celebrate!

Mariama and I are starting a new stage of our life together!!

Today Mariama left with her backpack on her shoulders to colonize new land. She is going to Bordeaux, the land of French wines. There, we will plant once more, our hopes and we will water it with our illusions and lots of work. I hope this time the growing of what we are planting comes out sooner!

I know you understand this, but I will say it again, these times in Madrid have been difficult lately. Even though we choose this path, we have not chosen the incidents we have lived through here in Madrid. We are still optimistic and trying to keep positive. We understand this has been a learning experience, but we also need to acknowledge that doing this together as couple can also be hard at times. You have to think for two, and moving two people around is harder than moving just by yourselves!


We really hope that Bordeaux treat us better, since we are very tired and we do not have the same enthusiasm as from when we came to Madrid. At the moment the feelings about Madrid is that “we made a mistake”, but time will tell, and I am not very objective about it right now.

Today I had in the horoscope that all hard work and investments in a project, will give its results soon. And as SPRING is here, I would take this as a good augment.


Tulips
These are the first tulips that have just flourished in Mariama’s mother’s land, Holland. I always thought that the lucky one to receive tulips at the airport, was the person to arrive, but this time I received them as a present when I was waiting for Mariama, when she returned from Amsterda where she visited her sister and aunty.

By the way, tulips are OUR favor flowers!!!

Post Graduate at the Complutense of Madrid

Finally I have finished the classes of the course I was doing, Expert on Promotion and Management of NGOD (Non-governamental organization for Development), which it started very well but ended to be not so good at the end. However I did learn a lot.
The organizers have good intentions, but the sector does not cooperate with this course, since work in NGO’s here is mostly volunteer. There is little room for professional work, and the small opportunities there are, are offered to Spaniards!! Olé!!!

As for now, I am writing a Thesis, that it would be of little interest here, since is about Community Cultural Development and International Cooperation. But this is no news, since those of you who know me understand why I do this type of work and not other.

Here is the photo of my class, with whom a shared for about five months; professionals from all over the world, particularly from Latin America.

Farewell to Madrid

Little by little we are saying good by to Madrid, and we have being walking around these beautiful streets, postal cards like! They are marvellous!
Here some images to share..
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