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Tuesday, March 28th, 2006

So, a week and a half in Ibiza already. It seemed very fast although I’ve been doing a lot of working.
As I told you on my last post, I’m working doing some building in the two restaurants. I have my overall, dirty shoes from earth, a hat, leather gloves and several tools. I’m indeed a real builder!! And believe me a feel like it, especially because my whole body hurts, my hands have blisters, my muscles are sore and I have already a tan by working a whole week under the Mediterranean sun. I had to demolish a very long plants pot, made of cement and stone. It was hard but a bit funny too, `cause I had in my power an electric hammer, jackhammer (?), and hitting a wall with that can indeed be fun 🙂! Of course the not so funny part is when you have to take all the rubbish, from the demolishing, with a shovel (pala) and put it in a wheelbarrow (carretilla), but anyway…
Today, for a change, I had to fill almost a whole garden with earth, yes shovel and wheelbarrow again, and not destroy it. My back’s kaputt  :|, but I came here to work and if that’s the work for now, well let it be.
 Now an important subject. As many of you know, my papers are being made. Well I got a call last Friday from the lawyer who’s working on them, saying that is I wanted to have papers in Spain I had to go to Colombia, and do the process from there. He saw all the documents and said everything was perfect, but that I was in Spain. The process goes as following: being on your home country, the company interested on you sends a couple of documents to the government asking for you. It’s not always accepted, because they can say: you are asking for a Colombian waiter, when we have 5000 Spanish ones for you to choose. So what they normally do is ask for you pretending you are essential or ask for you not as a waiter or a popular profession, but as something there’s not in Spain or very few. It takes between a month or two, to have an answer from the Spanish government.
I had a reservation for a plane tomorrow to Colombia, in order to do all the above mention process, but I declined the offer. Why? Because it’s not 100% sure that I’m gonna get the permit, and even if I do I don’t know how long it’s gonna take. It can be a month or three, and if it the latest, I’ll miss the season and with it the opportunity of saving the money for my journey and all my plans till August 2007 crumble.
I didn’t come to this decision very easily, in fact it took me several night of bad sleeping and stress, but thanks to my mom who talked with a few people in Colombia, and to myself asking here, I did. I haven’t talked to my boss, he’s not in the island right now, and he hasn’t call me. This has a huge importance because he has to decide if he either lets me continuing working for him or not. If the answer’s the first, well no problem everything continues as planed, but if it’s the latest, things get a little more roughly and I have to start all over again.
It will be what it has to be, and let it be. I’m still holding on here with my head up and ready to do what ever it takes to make my dream come truth.
My family and Aoife are behind me, and that makes me more confidence and strong.
  So, that’s the story by now, as I said I’m ok and with good mood, I’ll let you know of any event that happens. Cross your fingers for me ;).
 Now some more cheerful pictures,  enjoy!
 Simon
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These are from work, with the jackhammer, Riky, Sebas and Julius (all of us with our “uniform”) 

IMG_7063.JPG  and this is one of Ibiza´s harbour taken at sunset  

 

30 days to Ibiza? You better start counting again.

Friday, March 17th, 2006

It has been a long time since my last post, and there are a lot of “news” to tell, so forgive me because this is gonna be a damn long post. Sorry 😕

I´ll do it chronological so it´s easier for you to read, and easier for me not to forget anything.

So, we were by the time Aoife went home again on the 6th of March. Then came a normal week at work, until Wednesday, when Santiago Polo (one of my best friends) rings me and tells me he´s in Madrid. He´s staying only aweek in Spain, most of the time in Murcia (south from Spain). We wanted to see eachother, but he doesn´t have time to come to Barcelona. I only have Sundays off and can´t go to Murcia. Solution: we´ll meet up in Valencia on Sunday, spend the day togheter and i´ll take the first train (06:00) on Monday. Sounds perfect! We´ll see…

Then on Thursday, the director of the restaurant quits and with him the whole team he was arranging to come to Ibiza. Crisis! In the mean time Tim (american friend from Germany) calls me to tell me he´s in Spain as well, he´s been living in Valencia for the last 3 weeks, and he´s coming to Barcelona on Friday with his girlfriend Olivia (Spanish friend form Gremany as well). Friday morning, no one came to the restaurant, only the old head chef and the dishwasher so we had to give a frightful service. Martin, the owner and big boss, decides to close Atlàntic restaurant. Critic? Yes for many people who worked there, for me not so bad, I was only wondering when I was gonna leave to Ibiza.

So no work, on Friday evenning or Saturday. I met up with Olivia and Tim, went to down town for the evenning and had a coupple of drinks. Saturday Tim and I woke up late and kaputt, and then met Olivia who was with some friends in a bar. Had some drinks and went home from one of them to have dinner, beer and to chat for a while. It was a lovely time with them, and it was very nice to see Tim and Olivia again.

So it´s sunday already! 08:00 and the trains starts moving towards Valencia! Three and a half hours later the journey is over. I´m in Hauptbahnhof of Valencia, city I didn´t know for more than a night when I was 16, wich is in Fallas (=Carnival) at the moment. Fallas are really big “sculptures” made of wood , paper etc. wich are done for carnival and are placed around the city for a week and then burned at the end. I had only to wait for an hour for Santiago to come, but Mr. Polo felt the need to stretch his legs in Alicante, and got out of the train, and of course the train left without him :). No big deal, I picked his bag from the train, put it in a locker and waited 3 more hours for him. While waiting I saw the Mascletà, thousands of fireworks with very few colors (it´s at 14:00) but very very loud. It´s made on a square, but I could only make it to one of the adjacent streets `cause it was sooo full.

Met Santi at 16:00, I was very happy to see him indeed, and went down town. It was very hot, 25 C degrees, so we had to stop in some bars to “refresh” ourselves with a beer or two. We did taht almost the whole day, until I called Maria (Spanish friend from Germany) and she took us to a place to drink “Agua de Valencia”, wich is made with champagne, orange juice and other unknown spirits. We went to a nightclub afterwards, danced for a while, and then went to another nichtclub, but this time without Maria. The second nightclub was very bad, there were at the most 10 people including us, and we were the only ones who weren´t junkies, so tschüss from there.

It was already time for me to take the train back to Barcelona, but the tickets were sold out and for the next train as well. Tough luck, ah? Ihad another day with Santi!

06:30 was a good time to go to bed, if we had any! So the ground of a park of a church looked very nice and confortable, for our very much tired bodies. And so it was until 09:30 when we woke up and grabbed something to eat, by then go to the Oceanografo, Sea aquarium, where we spent the day in.

I ended up taking the 15:00 train and arrived in Barcelona, almost dead to see my friend´s faces `cause I didn´t have gone to work.

Sorry this is getting so long, but it has been a busy week.

And the big finale, was on Tuesday when we got a call from the office, saying we had a ticket for Wednesday night´s boat to come to Ibiza.

So wednesday was all runing around trying to pack everything and be prepared to leave. We had to take our bosse´s car with us, a big 4×4 Mercedes-Benz, which was a lucky strike, `cause otherwise, I would have had to pay for excess luggage at least 100€.

I arrived yestareday at 07:30, met the boss at 11:00, went to the both the restaurants I´ll be working in, La Barraca and Cova Santa, and then came very tired to my aunt´s where I´m staying untill June.

Pffff!!!!! Busy!!! That has been my live in the last few days, sorry you had to read too much, but I had to update you guys with “all my news” :).

So conclusion: I´m now in Ibiza until end of September. I´ll be working in La Barraca until end of May, then in Cova Santa.

I´m tired of writing, you are tired of reading, so….

chao

SAI

p.s. some pics at last, you are gonna see pictures from the last three or four weeks 😕 ooops! 😉

My mom in Barcelona   07-12/02/2006

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Here you see my mom, my two aunts (Maritza, Ibiza, and Leo, Switzerland) and me.

Aoife in Barcelona 25/02/2006 – 05/03/2206

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I suppose you know who that is, we are in Park Güel, Atlantic club and Down Town Barcelona. There´s one in Reus with Traudel as well, and by the way, Pizza Hut, Döner Kebap is coming to get you!

Tim and Olivia in Barcelona 10-11/03/2006

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Some very nice people you get to know in life.

Santi and me in “Las Fallas” Valencia !!12-13/03/2006 (So short? It seemed like ages… :))

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 As you can see, we Rules!! jajajaja!!! No really, most of the pictures are on the street, some with Maria, there´s one with Polito on top of a car jumping to get a flag and in the Oceanografo.

And don´t miss in our next very soon show… Simon´s first week in Ibiza as a builder…..

It´s me again!

Monday, March 6th, 2006
Hello everyone! I´m back!! I haven´t post anything lately, ´cause Aoife was here for the last week. She just left today, so I now have the evennigs free (bzw. with nothing to do ;)) Oh we had a lovely time ... [Continue reading this entry]