Well here it is-- my very first blog. I've gone my whole life without one, so the question really begs, why blog now? I know you've probably heard this quip before, but I can honestly say that I didn't choose this blog, it chose me. One of my favs Woody Allen once said, "I think being funny is not anyone's first choice." Well Woody, this one's for you, because like it or not, I have spent a larger part of my life sacrificing my self-image for the sake of a laugh. And thusforthly, I have become something of a magnet for the strange and wacky. I attract the odd, I always have, and my heart beats to the rhythm of laughter. All eloquence aside, ridiculously funny things happen to me every day and I am blessed, read cursed, with the ability to find humor in everything around me.
Ok so I'm hilarious. In my element that is. Now back to the reason I need this blog as much as it needs me. I am living in Spain for my senior year of college. As I write this post, I am sitting in my living room overlooking the beautiful, alive, magical city of Barcelona, my home until next July when I'll have to wake up to a world of post-graduate living. I am here because I made a promise years ago to my best friend Amanda Robalin that we would come to this city together and travel and live and learn. Now, we're here. We did it and I am as happy as I could ever be to be sharing this experience with her. We live in very different situations, she with a woman in homestay, and I with a bunch of wild and crazy Catalunyans. I've digressed, seriously now, back to the reason why I have chosen to perpetually update my friends and loved ones on the inconsequential happenings that amount to my everyday existendce. My roommates - 3 Spanish guys, 1 Spanish chick and 1 Swiss girl - think I'm nice and reserved. Nice, I'll take, but the feeling of not being able to express my personality to the people I live with is suffocating. It's one of the biggest challenges of living in a foreign country, and while my Spanish is improving dramatically, I may never be funny to my new friends. I may have to live with being reserved, and for me, that's not enough.
So here it is-- my cathartic attempt at keeping it real. At still being funny and making people laugh. So please, read me, make fun of my nonsensical happenings. Because I may not be crazy/funny in Spanish, but I still have it..
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