Santoña ICC

I am currently in a plane on my way to Berlin as I write this, so I am not really sure when I’ll be able to post it. anyways.

Santoña ICC! yes! it was awesome, had a great time, everyone was really nice there, everything worked out the way it was supposed to…great. now lets go on the detailed explanation

Day 1: Madrid, 09:00 AM. We supposed to be all one hour early than the departure time to Santoña by bus, so there I was, at 9, ready to start my first summer camp as a group leader. to my surprise (well, not really), we left at 11:00 or so because this one girl was late… really late. the main problem arrived when I was told that I wasn’t going to the camp in the bus like everybody else, but instead, I had to go to the airport with a Spanish guy and a girl to pick up the Bulgarian, German, Czech and Polish with four huge-ass bags full of sandwiches and water bottles (roughly 100).  so there I was, on a cab on my was to Barajas airport with 4 humongous plastic bags. the Spanish guy (Pablo) stayed in Terminal 1 waiting for the German and Bulgarian, while the girl (Alejandra) and me left for terminal 4 in a bus to pick up the Polish and the Czech. they all arrived at the correct time so we all left in a Bus to Santoña. we got there late… like really late, had dinner, attended the welcoming meeting and off to bed.

Day 2: group leaders were assigned to each different group and as for me, I stayed in the camp working as a Staff member and joining random activities every now and then in case there were people missing and so on. we showed the kids around and they had a few introductory games. that's pretty much it.

Days 3, 4, 5 and 6: kids had some activities and we basically did the work behind the scenes. I must admit it was fun.

Day 7: on the 7th day we all had a trip to “El Soplao” caves in Cantabria. the experience was great and the cave was awesome, although we had some problems with the guide. You see, her English was crap, and some guy in the group I was going with mocked her once. then she got mad and started to shout at us group leaders and staff members, so from the moment she explained in Spanish while I translated for the whole group. I think I did pretty well, but the thing is that I don’t know all the geological terms for everything (at least not right away, I have to look them up in the dictionary) so whenever I made a mistake or couldn't come up with the right word, the woman will start correcting me, but whatever.

Days 8, 9, 10 and 11: pretty much the same as 3, 4, 5 and 6 but this time I joined twice for diving and kayaking, once to Karts and… some other stuff.

Day 12: I love this activity, I really do. kayaking down river Deva. This activity consist on getting a Kayak, a partner and a rowing pad, get to the river and start rowing for 8 Km, which is awesome. also, the good thing is that when you are a group lead, you become a pirate, which means you can take on ships! so I started jumping from boat to boat in an attempt to make all canoes flip. and I made it! it was a lot off fun and I’ll try to do this activity as many times as possible.

Days 13: Today we had the medieval fair, which is pretty much getting everyone dressed as a middle age character and have some games around, it was also lots of fun.

Day 14: packing up and saying bye and so on, also cleaning day.

Day 15: Everybody home!

I’m really gonna miss this camp, I had lots of fun.

Apologies (yes, ONCE again)

Hey there everyone!

Yesh, I’m back. In a way at least, because tomorrow I’m leaving to Berlin! (woohoo)

Everything's been a little messy these days, maybe too messy. for instance, I was told 3 days before leaving to Figueras summer camp that I was going to another different camp. and I was told 6 days ago that I was going to Berlin summer camp!

apart from the whole organizational issue, my summer’s been great! I will explain how the Santoña ICC went in the next post (yes, it deserves it’s own post).

Geo-mining museum.

I really should have posted this a long time ago (we went there roughly 3 weeks ago or so…) but anyways:

the title is pretty self-explanatory, we went to the geo-mining museum here in Madrid, and it was awesome. i loved it because it was more of a guided visit thanks to our particular geologist (Isidoro) and our particular mining engineer (Pocoyó).

here are some pics of the visit:

Theater time!

I haven’t been to the theater for a loooooong time (and by long, I mean from September 2008) but yesterday, my uncle invited my cousin and I to go watch a Cabaret called “Pasión sin puñales”. At first, I thought a cabaret was what women did in movies from the west and stuff but no, a cabaret means that there are a number of acts not related to each other.

and it was fun! there were 10 acts and most of them were really nice, except one of them, where the guy started talking for like 40 minutes and got boring in the end, but other than that, it was really nice.

If you guys want more info check the official website.

Below there are some pictures of the theater and stage (yes, it was my phone camera and it sucks)

PS: don’t take any kids with you…. really, don’t.

Dinner time!

Yesterday night we all went to a “foster Hollywood” here in Madrid and we had lots of fun.

the thing about these restaurants is that once you get a drink, you can refill as many times as you want (which meant that each of us drank like 2~3 liters of coke or Fanta) and the best meat ever (well not really, but its pretty good).

Most of us had a hamburger, except for Isidoro, that had a steak. lots of fun times.

  

after that we had an Italian ice cream and then a tourist visit through Madrid’s center (the royal palace, Opera, Cibeles, etc…) thanks to Rosado. then a bus home and it by 2:40 we were there already.

and no, they’re not gay… lool

PS: I know, the quality sucks, I did not have my phone camera properly configured… I really have to buy a good camera….

Teleco…

OK guys, this is kinda important, I’m really asking you to be extremely sincere with this.

If you are reading this is because you have known me for some time now, so please be serious.

I am really considering leaving Business Management to start Telecommunications Engineering.

Most people, when they get to know me for longer than an hour, get to the point that I belong to sciences and Computer related things. and I’ve been considering changing for a few months now (not because of what people think, don’t get that wrong).

The problem is that I’ll have to start all over again… year 1. Of course all subjects that are “free choice” (libre eleccion) will be done and also 5 to 6 subjects from the main subject plan. I’ve heard from many people that engineers can pretty much do the same a Business manager does and I have personally seen engineers been accepted to work as business managers. although that is not the issue because is not that I want to be in charge of a business or something, but rather do something I am truly, really interested on. Science and technology.

Do you guys think the change is worth it? My parents say its ok, as long as it is what I really want (I don’t deserve to be my parent’s son, they’re far too good). But I’d like some advice from you, my friends.

New Moon… check!

I just finished New Moon, the second book of the Twilight saga.


My opinion? it was OK… far from the first one, I hope the series are not going to follow the trend of lowering the standard Twilight set.
So no other option but to buy the 3rd! Eclipse!
I’ll post as soon as I finish it how was it.