Me voy a Londres!!!!

First of all, I would like to apologize in advance for my lack of blogging. I am really going to try to blog more consistently. Kudos to me because as I say this I have a post-it on my wall that says "BLOG EVERY FRIDAY", and you know what today is Friday! I just hope that I can keep this up, because a lot happens here in Spain, and as much  as I use Whatsapp or call back home, its just too much to type, and the minutes run out like crazy!! :/ 

Anyway, London has been in my path for a very long time, and at this present moment I am currently bursting at the seams with excitement, anxiety, tears of joy, and it feels FANTABULOUS!! I don't think I ever felt this way about something before, or this feeling just can't be compared to anything else in the world.

 I wrote in a FB Status a week ago, "Once upon a time I used to travel while reading books, and at times through my writing...NOW, things are really happening! Once the passport is full, I'm laminating this baby and passing it over to my future cub!"_ and in truth that was all I did. I used to dream (I still do) that I visited different countries, I met different people, I spoke several languages, and it made my heart full to experience that. I would tell people I want to go to here, I want to go there, and ideally when you speak your dreams, you share ideas with others, I think in the moment they agree with you, they might even encourage you. Let me honest here, because things were said in that moment, to you it will mean the world, you can see that happening, you can see yourself there, in that moment, but to others it may seem too far-fetched for that to be a reality. 



 Well this is my reality! I have always had a love of traveling. Traveling takes you to different places (obviously), but it's not just about the physical places that you can go, I'm speaking from a sense of mental traveling, spiritual traveling, and most of all emotional traveling. I know I probably lost you here, but I will clarify. It is so easy to book a flight (when can afford it), make hotel reservations, pack your luggage, head to the airport, and get that passport stamped once you reach your destination. Once you arrive to your set destination, the first thing that comes to mind is TURNUP!! YASSSS!! (which is always a plus), but with all that "turning up", have you really connected with your purpose in being at said destination? 

I'm living in the prime of my life right now! I am doing all that I ever said I wanted to do, and yes turning up is part of this process, but this journey is deeper for me. There are some things that I am supposed to experience, and I am being prepared for a future that is beyond me, and I connect and adapt to all that I do while I am here. I have learned to "throw the COMFORT-ER" to the side and get up and approach everything differently. There is no room for the "what-ifs" or the "should I" questions, and that was me before I got here, and I sat and waited for things to happen. I waited and waited with false expectations and disappointments.I was too comfortable in that, waiting for others to make things happen, waiting on people to take me out, waiting on the finances that never seem to come when I needed it to, but now FORGET THAT!! 

That comfort armor is gone, and I am LIVING! Not just breathing to exist in time and place, but embracing the air in which I breathe to LIVE effortlessly! 

I will tell you this though, thus far Spain has been a life changing experience for me. In the beginning it wasn't easy, I was weak with homesickness and got the shock of my life the very first time I sat in a room full of Spaniards who only spoke Spanish. Right there, in that moment was the feeling of being lonely in a crowded room. Yes, the Red Wine did help a bit, but the struggle to understand what was being said, and to announce my presence was the most difficult. I understood more Spanish than I could actually speak at that time, and I felt lost! I was lost, I was lost from my Hispanic roots, and Spain is helping me to find them. 


Ciao! 

Un besito 

Vee.