IN SPAIN

My Erasmus year is over.

I am back in Spain. Today is Tuesday. I have been here for two days and I have not almost had time to do things. I have begun to study since the first day because I have to take two exams at the end of June. This is a drastic change in a few hours: I was sitting down in Ryd´s bbq after a downtown night and saying goodbay to everyone and now I am in front of my desk with a lot of chapters to study.

My feeling here in my place is so strange. Coming back to daily routine when I know that nothing will be as this last year is difficult. For that, my feelings are strange. I can´t describe them. I feel different and I did not feel in this way before going to Linköping. From later, I have to recognize that this year in Sweden has had more influence on me than I expected. All of us knew that a year abroad is for meeting people, for parties, for learning new things, etc. And I knew it as well. But when I have come back I realize that it is something else. So, now a strange feeling is in me (and not the typical post-Erasmus slump) that I can´t describe well and that it is a mis among nostalgia of Linköping, to miss my friends and... I don´t know.

The most positive thing is that if I look back I am richer in my personal life than 10 months ago. Moreover, I hope all my friends in Europe and someone in America will be with me for a long time. I traveled, I learnt a new language, I lived abroad.... They are only positive things!!!!

If everything goes well, in september I am finishing my double degree and I am beginning to work. It will start a new stage in my life. My Erasmus year is not only finished, but my student life too. I am really happy about how it was. It was amazing from the beginning to the end. Now, new projects are waiting for me in the future.

With this post I am closing my blog. This is the last thing I am going to write. I began in August with the intention of telling my life in Linköping. Now, it will keep like one of my best memories, one way to come to life again all of I felt and I thought in every moment in Sweden. Thanks to all that read my blog. And, especially, thanks to all people that gave me a moment of their time in Linköping. I will never forget them. Best wishes my friends.

Carlos in Linköping

2006-2007