Blogging, blogging, blogging.

I have decide to refurbish my blogs. Particularly this one.

Today someone asked me "why?". Well, giving an accurate answer is a bit hard. As I told her, there are many reasons the first of them being the fact that I have time to do it and that I like learning about blogging and improving my blogs. Narcisim and my own delusions of grandeur are also another reason.

Nonetheless, if I try to be honest with myself I find yet another reason, one that seems greater than all the aforementioned, and it is necessity.

The changes that I am applying to this blogs are really necessary if they are to serve the purpose of allowing me to express myself and the different shades and shapes inside my head. In other words, the changes in the blog are a result of changes in who I am (including my circumstances) and most importantly on  who I want to be.

I guess the biggest change is that I have merged all my 3 blogs (yes I have 3 different blogs) in an attempt to unify myself (increase traffic) and to allow whoever bothers to read this to see different sides of me.  Now, thanks to Fors, you can find all the posts that belong to different blogs under the corresponding tab. All the posts can be found under "home" but I guess that defeats the purpose (and I can't seem to change that).

I have also changed the name of one of my blogs. "Costarricense por dicha" is now "Azul: en blanco y negro". I've wanted to change the name of this blog (my pseudo-artistic blog) for a while now but I've had a hard time finding a new name. I am still not sure if I will keep the new name but it feels more appropriate than the previous one and it bears a strong meaning in my life. I want to clarify that the change is not due to a change in my relationship with Costa Rica or my feelings about being Costa Rican, but the old name just didn't seem to hold any relation with the content of the blog.

There was another decision to be made during this process: "what to do with 'Crónicas de una odisea lúdica'?" This blog was originally created to tell the tales about my AIESEC internship in Germany and that is clearly over. However my odyssey and the teachings life has for me are far from over and I see no reason why I should stop writing about them. I guess now I do have to think a little bit more about who I write  this for, but who am I kidding, I know who I've mostly written for.

Salud

The day that I knew would come...

I always knew this day would come; to some extend it came rather sooner than later but at the same time it also took longer than I expected for it to come. This is the day in which I fulfill my promise to Nouran (Nouran Soliman) to post something in English which, as I promised her, also means this is the day I no longer write from Europe; instead I do so from my beloved Costa Rica.

Good old Bonn and Beethoven

Three days ago I left Bonn (almost one week by the time I finish and publish this post), I had officially left before but I came back to pick up some luggage and to some extend to say "bis bald". Going back to Bonn was good, as it was being there for 8 months, and when I was heading there I had feeling I was going back home but when I finally made it back to Costa Rica I realized there was a slight difference between what I felt going back to Bonn and coming back here. I guess it comes from the fact that both places are different kinds of home.

Many persons have asked me lately how do I feel regarding my experience in Germany/Europe. Well, to be honest I feel a lot of different things but there is one clear and predominant feeling and this is thankfulness. I am very thankful with God, with AIESEC and Deutsche Telekom, with Germany and with all the amazing persons that I met.

San José by night

One day my dear cousin Lala (Laura Vargas) once said: "life sometimes challenges you and takes you out of your comfort zone, but that is only so that your comfort zone will become bigger". When I found myself saying "today it's a nice day, it's  not so cold it is 3 degrees" I realized how right she was.

I guess that the past 9 months were mainly about that, expanding my comfort zone, and also about learning about myself. Neither of those things were easy but both, I must admit, are extremely gratifying.

Now I am back in my beloved Costa Rica, with all its beauty, its potential and its challenges. I am happy to be back and I am really looking forward to whatever comes ahead. 




By now I leave you all with an invitation to meet me here and with the promise to keep on writing since the odyssey will go on. 

San José today at 4pm