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While going to the airport, I met Arispides in Madrid’s subway. He is a very nice Puerto Rican guy in their 50’s. This guy is an artist, a painter who come to Spain for a painting course (Although he told me they teach him but he didn’t learn anything!). This guy’s life perspective was fantastic, I’ve never seen a so conscious and positive person. He was constantly smiling and he was speaking with the self-confident provided by the years. He tried to give me advices, telling me to always stay out of the route all the people follow but not too much to prevent derailing.

This guy made my day, I’m happy because of him.

About the plane, nothing really speciall. I had the tipical ultra serious executive I_read_the_economist_but_I_travel_in_tourist_class seatmate and we didn’t really speak about anything.

I needed to wait for the plane in Frankfurt around 2 hours, time I spent trying to find german beer in the various duty free stores. But there isn’t beer, none. Zip. Zero. There were only spirits. I should had bought pacharan in Madrid!

Today I’ve left home, my comfortable life, family and friends. I left everything behind to start living in South Korea, far away from home, with Ann. I will need to learn a new language and the rules of the korean society. Make my life harder but also more interesting. I will change, making myself more open minded. Today I’ve started a new stage in my life and I don’t know when I will come back to Spain.

I’m so happy

Spanish ‘Pato’ bullet train

I’ve come to Madrid on AVE (the Spanish bullet train) in one of the nicest trips of my life. I took the train and I started to explore its cool features, specially the bar because it has huge windows and the speed sensation is amazing. The train was not full and I took advantage of that sitting for a while in first class. When I returned from my small walk we were already crossing Guadarrama!. I arrived Madrid soon after, so it was a 200km, 51 minutes trip that usually takes close to 3 hours in the regular train.

In the afternoon I’ve been having dinner and saying goodbye to some good friends. Leticia, Diego, Maria and Gonzalo, who just returned yesterday from his Rumanian erasmus (It’s funny, he come back the same week I’m moving away)

Crushing into pieces South Korea soccer team

Just after coming from Canada I went to Madrid’s Spanish facebook introduction. That was at the end of February and during the event, Simyo’s marketing team introduce their competition to create a Facebook application to help their marketing campaign.

After one month of hard work, I’ve happily won the contest.

You can continue reading in my technical blog how the awards ceremony was

Randy is a computer science teacher who had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. He prepare a last lecture for his students. His history is really passional and was about the importance of overcoming obstacles, of enabling the dreams of others, of seizing every moment. It was a summation of everything Randy had come to believe. It was about living.

Randy transmits in only 10 minutes a lot of energy. He want the people to improve their mindset, refocus their priorities looking at the bottom of their hearths to find what is really important in life. He also mention perseverence is the key to sucess and how you should live your life: Always having fun everyday in every single action. Which has been also my mantra in the last times.

I really have enjojed this lecture and I’ve seen that although Randy has so time left, he has written a book (The Last Lecture) that seems also very interesting and motivational. The following video is the lecture he prepared for their sons. “I think it’s great that so many people have benefited from this lecture, but the truth of the matter is that I didn’t really even give it to the 400 people at Carnegie Mellon who came. I only wrote this lecture for three people, and when they’re older, they’ll watch it,”

Watch it with a clear mind.

Thanks Jaimi for let me know this stuff.