I want to write about Catalunya and independence but I keep getting distracted.
Perhaps it is because I don’t feel I know enough yet. I listen and strain to understand the news in Catalan, I hear conversations around the table and try to get a better grip on what people are thinking and saying. I buy newspapers and spend an hour or two slowly translating for myself and hoping I am not missing something important.
There are lots of flags still hanging from windows and so far, everyone I have spoken to is pro independence. Almost everyone went on the demonstration in Barcelona on September 11th.
People are talking about it.
It feels like an exciting and important time and I will write about it – soon!
I wish my language skills were better – it’s so frustrating to know there is something going on and yet not be able to really really understand the details.
Meanwhile ….life continues in Granollers.
Today I went to the dentist – a visit to the hygienist cost 20 euros.
The sun shone on the Porxada and some people were still wearing shorts
I unpacked some more sculpture tools and created some stone dust
Ah the smell of wax crayons! I always have to bury my head in them and breath in.
We have sovereignty issues here too and unfortunately I can understand every ugly thing that is said. I’ll raise my vermut to shorts in September! And don’t even get me started on wax crayons. I could walk around all day with one plugged up each nose if I wasn’t afraid of being committed. Are you doing encaustic? Just asking because I saw an online encaustic class that starts soon that I was thinking about taking.