Sunday, August 25, 2013

Important decision: gap year, yes or no?


Have you ever got to that point in life that you don't know what to do, literally. You may have a no-end list of options and possibilites but you don't know which one to choose.
Most of these decisions comes up when you finish a period or stage or call it whatever you like and you are about to enter in a new one. Example: you finish highschool and you don't know whether you should continue studying, start working or travel or whatever. Right now I am at this point but my situation is a bit more complicated than that. 

It goes like this, this next year should be my 4th and last year in my bachelor degree at the university of Girona, but due to bad structure, organisation and understanding the subjects I will be able to choose for my next student year are most awfull and I really don't try to offend any professor of my university if they read this(which I doubt) but there are a few subjects that are just better not to do.



Due to this situation I have reached the point that I am seriously considering on going on a gap year or sabatical or "half sabatical" or call it a break if you want to. But is this really a good option? And what should I do? Work, study, travel...?


PROS on going on a gap year:

1- I would probably have more freedom and would not be attached to one place do to the studying and I could travel more without counting the classes I've missed in order not to fail.
2- I am 21 for god's sake! I can take a break from whatever I am doing, it is the time to make mistakes and fail. Because if I don't do it now when will it be? When I am 35 with probably a child or two, is it going to be then when I realise that I could've tried to see more the world or try to reach some of my dreams but I didn't?
3- I would sign in for a couple of subjects to keep track on the university, but it would be  subjects such as languages that it would be not so strictly necessary to atend the lessons as I guess and hope I would/will pass them with no problem.

4- I could maybe in this gap year try to find out my real passion, give a year for me. Try new things, get to know new people. Just give it all and not think with my brain but with my heart.



Cons on going on gap year:
1- Even though I would sign up for a couple of subjects I would probably end up loosing track on the university.

This is right now the only and main reason that keeps me away from going on a gap year. 

And then comes the second and probably most important question: 

What to do during the gap year?

Because it is easy to want to go away, but with no plans or thoughts it would end up being a year thrown in to the trash, because one thing I don't like, is to waste my time. 

So at this point there are a few options that have been coming up on my mind
 lately:

Brandenburger Tor, Berlin
AƱadir leyenda
The first and most probable one is to go to Germany(for everybody who knows me and usually reads this blog know my girlfriend is German and that she lives there), probably to the capital city, Berlin. And there try to learn as much German as I can, write and blog a lot, maybe find a job, get to know how it is to live in a big city, get out of my comfort zone and maybe make a course that would allow me to be a teacher of Spanish in any foreign country in the world.



Map of New ZealandThe second one(less probable one) is to try to convince my girlfriend to fly a couple of months or six to New Zealand to collect fruits, which at least as far as I have been informed it is a very hard job but well paid, which is exactly what I need: a life changing adventure with the person I love the most in the world and to earn some money. I am writing this here because as far as I am concerned, my girlfriend doesn not read this blog so that is nothing I would have to worry about.



















So now my last but not least question is: What should I do? Opinions? Gap year or not? Where? Any answer is more than welcome.


Monday, August 5, 2013

I like Ryanair and you?

Lately, more than ever it has been a lot of fuzz about Ryanair, at least here in Spain. Mostly because of the fact that they have doubled the prices to go to Santiago de Compostela since the train accident that occured a couple of weeks ago. That, in my opinion is inhuman, to take advantage of tragedies. On the other hand though, all those people that don't do more than just complain about Ryanair and its services, just drives me crazy. And here are some of my reasons:
Ryanair flight
Landing in with Ryanair in Girona


1- Thanks to Ryanair, it has allowed our generation to discover places we would not even thought of ten years ago. Or to travel as much as we do nowadays. I'll give a example: I was born in Sweden and moves to Spain in 2001 and each and every summer I used to travel back home to see my family and friends, when there was no such think as low-cost or at least it hadn't had gotten the trust we have in it now I guess. Prices for a ticket was then around 300-400 Euros. Now, thanks to low-cost airlines such as Ryanair I can fly to Sweden for 50, 60, 70...100. And when it costs 100, we even think, that is expensive. ARE WE CRAZY? If it wasn't for Ryanair non of this would even be possible.

2- As I said, thanks to Ryanair a big part of our generation could start flying, to start fulfilling dreams and to discover places 10 or 20 years ago they would have even thought of.

3- In the last year I have start traveling more than ever and that is thanks to Ryanair. Since past september I have been to Denmark, Poland, Portugal, Germany, Spain and other places thanks to Ryanair. I met my girlfriend while living in Denmark, she is German and lives in Germany and we are still together. But lets be honest, without Ryanair, long distance relationship like mine, would not be possible. But now due to its low cost prices, I can visit her once a month(at least), with back and forth flight for 25 Euros TOTAL!


There are many other reason why Ryanair is a great airline and why in my opinion people should be more grateful of its service.



The problem with society nowadays is that it is full of hypocrites, people that complain about everything and don't even realize how much it has helped us. And at the end, they still end up using the airline. 

Ryanair plan
Flying with Ryanair over French Alps on my way to Frankfurt Hahn
If you use Ryanair, you just have to accept is politics. You know that you are buying a plane ticket with a insanely cheap price and that if you want check-in and extra luggage on the plane, you will have to pay a big amount for it, that if you don't have printed your ticket you will have to pay for it or that they don't accept more than one bag as hand baggage, it is just that simple and you have to deal with it. With plane tickets that cheap, they have to earn some extra money somehow, right?


Ryanair plane flying
A other possitive thing about Ryanair compared to other airlines it is the one with most arrivals on-time. Of course there are better and more on-time airlines, but for christ's sake, I think I have almost never been late with a Ryanair flight.



For those and many other reasons, I am a fan of Ryanair and I will keep on using it.





IMPORTANT: plaasee click on the following link and like this picture. It is for a contest to fly to Iceland! It would mean the world to me and its just 5 seconds of your time. Thanks:)
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151535816076374&set=o.116659125186127&type=1&relevant_count=1