Choose Madrid

In a few days, my first month in Madrid will end. A month that passed by so fast, that it makes it feel like a week...my days end in a glimpse. As I said before I was actually expecting to feel good here, especially after my Danish experience. Now, my problem is whether I should remain here or not. The pro's for this would be: living in a real European capital, earning enough money to live normally and becoming another person, culturally. The con's would be missing the people at home and constantly thinking about some of them, not being able to work in my field of studies...but on the other hand I am not so convinced about what Romania can offer me, so either way the only thing that would really change would be my social life. I already started looking for a job, so probably if I manage to find something in the next 2 months and nothing tragic happens, I will not go back home for a pretty long time. I am putting my future in the hands of serendipity, again :)

Ah, yes...Alex and Andre have been reading my blog and I have to correct some stuff:

1. Spain is not torn apart by it's political division, I read that in a newspaper...one...and the media here is politically manipulated...so one media source of information and no knowledge about the internal history of Spain is not enough;

2. My neighbors are not Spanish, they are Latin American...so my room doesn't have a Spanish sense and the music they/I listen to is not Spanish;

3. The apartment was not very, very dirty....it was a bit dirty and they were very good at cleaning it...considering that they are boys;

4. The post I deleted was not about my love life in Denmark, Andre!!!!

This weekend we are going to Galicia!!!

The fame

http://www.esi.edu

ESI Berkeley made me famous :)..and the title for my main photo fits me. Pfff it's been such a long time since I've been there, and it's still like a dream...one that I know it happened only because of the pictures I have, because my goldfish memory makes it feel like it never actually happened  The great US of A is still tempting for me, but though this didn't happen before, now the distance makes me feel unsure and makes me shiver at the thought of going and living there alone...but I'm not saying no yet...thank you David for the great photos that will forever make me remember Cali.

40 years of moonwalking

"One small step for men, one giant leap for mankind"...these are the words with which Armstrong conquered the Moon with Apollo 11 on the 21st of July 1969. This happened in a period of a great ideological war between USA and the USSR, and even though USSR send first Gagarin into space, basically winning the space race, USA sent the first man, filmed it and promoted it through a good PR campaign, which left the Russians in the shadow.

40 years after that, mankind continues to be dazzled by the Universe and its wonders. Recently I read an article about the existence of another 361 to 38000 civilizations in our galaxy only. The human imagination is extremely rich and we always wanted to discover these aliens, which in movies are either bad and ugly or good and sweet, they come in peace or to conquer us...Be it either, the sky for us has always been a wonder and it has been used both by religion and pagan rituals. God is somewhere in the sky, Jesus was born under a star, as well as, our life is guided by zodiacal signs reflected by planets or even ancient depiction of drawings showing the existence of some creatures coming from above. This is Scientology's favorite topic, so in case anyone would know anything...it should be them.

A problem in this case would if humans could procreate in space. A smart article says that: "sex in space is human sexual activity in weightless and extreme environments of space. The topic also includes conception and pregnancy in off-Earth environments. The topic has been hotly disputed to clarify its potential impact on human beings in the isolated, confined, and hazardous environment of space. Experts consider humanity's expansion into space crucial to survival, though it was considered taboo for decades of space faring exploration history. As of 2009, with NASA planning long-term missions for lunar settlements with goals to explore and colonize space, the topic has taken its respected place in life sciences. Scientist Stephen Hawking publicly concurred in 2007 that possibly human survival itself will depend on successfully contending with the extreme environments of space. In zero gravity there is no natural convection to carry away body heat and bodily fluids tend to pool around the body. The sweat from sexual activity could pool as floating droplets. Although zero gravity is a boon for saggy body parts, males might notice a "slight decrease" in penis size due to the lower blood pressure that humans experience in microgravity..."