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| Rambling on |
| 11.22.03 (8:15 pm) [edit] |
So, I've been thinking about privacy, personal space etc, because of something that happened yesterday. As a northern European I found the Spanish attitude to personal space a bit difficult to cope with at first. For example; You find a completely empty beach, strip off, slime up and shut down. Then you spot a few dots on the horizon (a Spanish family coming along the beach), and they trudge through the heat of the day for miles to set up camp RIGHT next to you. I now realise that they think they're doing you a favour..."look at that poor man all alone (even though he's tall, muscular and probably Italian), lets go and keep him company." They will [b]never[/b] speak unless you start the conversation, because THAT would intrude on your privacy. No, instead they have this amazing ability not to see you for the rest of the day.
[u]Yesterday[/u]
I was in Granada and found myself with free time. I decided to go to a cyber café and catch up on the latest happenings in blogland. I don't know what I expected of a cyber café, but it wasn't what I found. A big room, dimly lit, with computers dotted around the walls. I paid my €1 for an hour (very cheap I thought) and opened up M-Blog. Within a couple of minutes I was surrounded by people asking what I was doing and EVEN if I'd translate it into Spanish for them! At first I felt a bit angry about my total lack of privacy, but by the end of the hour we were all laughing at the comments left on my blog. Don't you think sometimes that personal space is just too big?
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| slowly getting unpacked and sorted out |
| 11.20.03 (7:23 pm) [edit] |
So, I've got my weather gizzmo on the wall over there. Slowly making a list of links to friend's blogs...all in all its a bit like moving house. That reminds me of a great Victoria Wood quote;
"Dear Marge,
I've just moved to a new area and would like to meet a lot of people quickly. Any advice?"
Marge replies, "Get caught shoplifting."
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| New start |
| 11.20.03 (9:37 am) [edit] |
New blog, new start. I even decided to put a pic in my profile this time...yeah right, so I'm not tall, muscular and Italian. :shock: Just got to find my way round the new place now.
I'm keeping the other blog going, and will make it public. So if there's anybody here who wants to contact anybody on M-Blag you can do it through me. HUH? Does that make sense? It's far too early in the morning for this...I need coffee!
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| Refugees reunited |
| 11.19.03 (8:39 pm) [edit] |
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Just a quickie to say "hi" to everybody from M-Blag. We refugees need to stick together!!! :? :?
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