The summer is over...

September first is approaching and my 2010-summer is coming to an end. After my graduation from W&L, my departure from my dear US and the ending of many important things that used to define my life, this summer has been an interesting one, in both positive and negative ways. Although I'll miss the afternoons in the beach, the ice-creams in the Boulevard, the funny Sunday-morning calls among my friends inquiring what happened the previous night and, most of all, the absence of the Basque-never-stopping-rain... I'm glad this phase is over and I can move onto new projects.

Sarai & I - Bus to Bilbao

One of the new projects is writing this blog, which hopefully will keep my English-writing skills from getting too rusty. Other projects include traveling, visiting old friends, improving my recently acquired French-language-skills and most importantly, finding a job related to my fields of study. Currently, I'm facing two weeks of paperwork and planning for my stay in France, in Brossac. I think it will be very exciting to write about it, given that it will a completely new experience.  However, until then, I have to deal with all the slow-paced bureaucracy to re-issue all my documentation, which got stolen/lost a little bit ago. Only today I went to five different locations (some of them even 3 times) to accomplish nothing, given that apparently, telling you which documentation you need to bring can't be done all at once... Why? I don't know... But I just nodded and smiled every time... (sigh).

Nevertheless, on a funnier note, all the going and coming helped me discover something new about my dear Basque village and its surroundings. As you might know, I've never been too interested in my fellow Basque-guys and their style... Or their height...(Usually I'm like one head taller than them... take no offense please!).

Bilbao City - August 7th 2010

However, today I was glad to notice that all the policemen at the different local police stations I went to were amazingly dashing. Were they always like that? Is being extremely good-looking a new requirement to become a policemen here? How can I get one of those to go? Well, this afternoon I have to go to the central police station in San Sebastian to continue all the paperwork... I'll look around and see if I can actually make a generalization about that :) haha Anyways, it's time to go, but I also wanted to say thank you to all of you who shared your time and gave me your support during these months of transition - you know who you are (especially you elephant-crazed person haha). Thanks for a great summer. Love you all!

PS - If you click on the title of this entry, you'll be directed to one of my fav songs which reminds me very much of my senior year at W&L. The pics are from my girl-trip to Bilbao this summer... Good times, good times.