Wind Mill Diaries

In one week I'm gonna finishing my one year European Solidarity Corps project. It's been a weird year, with the Covid Pandemic and everything, but all things considered has been a great year to me. I've learned a lot: about Menorca, about Spain, about Spanish and Catalan, about not formal education, and expecially about myself. I feel changed, I feel different from when I arrived here, grown up, more confident and peaceful. The quarantine and the global health emergency were painful and difficult but they contributed to my work of self-analysis and introspection. And all in all, this island is not so a bad place where to spend a quarantine: here the cases have always been fews and the nature offers a lot of outside activities that can be done without risk. So, even if I didn't have the opportunity of living a "regular" year as European Solidarity Coprs Volunteer here, I'm still happy of my choice and plenty satisfied with the experience. Torre d'en Gal

This month I'm obsessed with Audioiko's remix of Carla Morrison's song "Disfruto". It was recommended to me by two of Fanny's friends from Madrid who came to visit her in September. I'm listening to it on a loop ever since.   

Thanks to the discounts for island residents, I was able to travel a lot during this year. Well, I probably would have traveled more if it hadn't been for the pandemic but ... es lo que hay ("it's what it is"). I've been in Mallorca (three times), in Granada, and in Valencia. I was supposed to go to Italy in spring but they cancelled my flight due to the pandemic. So it's almost a year that I don't see my parents and friends. I start to miss them a lot. In Mallorca I've visited Palma and I had an exciting excursion through the Serra de Tramuntana mountains with my friends Nina and Fanny. One of the great opportunity of ESC is to be able to travel more and get know better the hosting country. Puig d'en Galileu, Sierra de Tramontana, Mallorca Palma de Mallorca Valencia