Pros and cons

Muy buenas,

Me uno a esto del blogging ya que está tanto de moda y aprovecho éste tema, la moda, para empezar a escribir de algo que, probablemente a muchos de vosotros os suene de algo, ya sea por experiencia propia o por algún conocido.
He decidido que iré alterando e iré escribiendo el blogg en Castellano y en Inglés para aquellos, que ya sea por estar a la moda o por necesidad no les venga mal aprender o mejorar "el spaniglish" asi que alla voy!

I remember when escaping your country to live abroad was crazy and cool, all your friends had this look at you, thinking that you are this kind of crazy creature from another planet unable to appreciate the the wonderful and sunny country with tons of party and amazing gastronomy, this kind of person, immature, that didn´t want to follow the stereotypes of finishing university, continue with your boyfriend, buy a house, get married and be happy with a minimum salary job without any possibility of grow.
Well, in the end you decide to pass on all those comments, and finally leave! and what 10 years ago was craziness, now is fashionable and cool. Now you realize that even if seems that you left a couple of years ago, has been many more, precisely 12, and that you had build your life already far from your home country, far from your family and your old friends, you realize that you had lived so much, meet so many interesting people in your way, some of them you never heard about it again, some others became so part of you  that you wont be able to live without them anymore. You learn how to love in the distance, how to pass all the difficulties alone and pretend that you can handle and do everything, learn how to forbid yourself from bad decisions also to don't allow yourself to be vulnerable or sad and everytime you feel that way you bring up the other personality and continue kicking ass!
One of the biggest lessons that I´ve learned, is to appreciate friendship and that friendship is not a synonym of being together and drink beers and have fun, friends that you have in a distance might mean more and support you more that others that are in a daily basis with you, that the only thing that the distance made to that friendship is to make it stronger!
Being abroad, also surprises you, missing all this kind of simple stuffs that you are dying to eat or drink but being in your country living you will never eat it or drink it because you didn't appreciate it , you´re also surprised by watching those stupid and kitsch TV programs that you will refuse to watch and still, you deny now that you are actually enjoy and have fun with.
So, yes... being abroad makes you understand and see with a clear and an "objective" view everything that your home country is doing wrong, all the bastard politicians that in charge of the land making the country look like a 3rd world country, but also makes you appreciate those little things that any other country in the world has and never will. Love my country! Love my people!
Ele