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I live in the land of Fairytales!

I have had the extraordinary opportunity to see many castles in Spain, near and around Barcelona.  I had no idea that Europe was full of so many amazing structures. The castles in Spain are much smaller than the castles in say, Germany.  The reason being that since Spain and its main cities are on the Balearic Sea there were far more battles, due to the enormous waterfront.  Since there were many battles there was not much time to build huge castles and the Spanish had to resort to building smaller structures. (Crystal clear water) October 7, 2012.  I had met this really nice guy in the incambio group I had been going to for a few weeks.  And he was a physical trainer and invited me to go snorkeling with him at Garraf Harbor, since he had all the goggles and snorkeling equipment.  I never would have thought I would be going in the sea in October and it be tolerable!  It was a great experience and the water was so pretty and blue!...

Going with the flow and Brussels throwing curve balls

Some things that are planned are not always how they end up.  After Paris I had a training session with a great company that I was going to be teaching for.  The company was able to give me a good amount of teachinmg hours and I had some private sessions and classes with other companies set up, in order to fill my schedule. The training session went well and I had a good understanding of the material I was expected to teach.  I would begin teaching the next week! I was more than excited to start teaching and feel like I had a meaning to be in Barcelona.  Unfortunately, over the weekend some of my other jobs fell through which caused me to forfeit all my classes as a whole because it was not enough to get by.  The classes that fell through left my schedule very sparse and random, which would make it very difficult to fill. I had to make a quick decision; to either take the few hours of teaching and dip into my savings in order to pay bills or ...