Life is good!!!

It is past midnight and I just came home, nicely drunk, just floating around, after a night out on a thursday night with one of my flatmate, Eva, german, 26 yrs old and her work mates, german,spanish and austrian, all in their late 2O's.

Life is good was I saying. Barcelona is just amazing. People are so laid back! Going out with girls you hardly know, going in a very local and famous place where you're having a cup of kind of 'champaign' for 60 cents of a euro, then having an excellent bocadillo de lomo con pimientos o lomo con queso, cebolla y pimientos for less than 3 euros, in a very crowded place, where you can hardly move, but in which everyone is happy, chatting with each other, sharing bits of life, enjoying drinks, food, not to get drunk but to socialize and be together... it is all about Spain! I love this place. It's cheap, made for living together, respecting each other, made for pedestrians and bikes. No worries, I go to work on my bike and love it and those who know me know I am not a city girl!!! It's all nice and quiet, lots of space for everybody. We got out of the pub after eating and drinking, went to another one where we had a really good Caîpinrinha or Mojito, then decided to walk back home, around 45mn... so cool, nice fresh air, almost no cars in the street, still heaps of people outside, enjoying life, making the most of it! And on the way home, we found a square where they were playing a movie outside on a giant screen, so we sat down and watched the end of it... then at the same time I was watching, part of me was thinking : "What a great life I'm living, what a great place to live in, I'm so grateful to be here and to be able to live moments like this one!"

Thanks God, thanks angels for showing me the right way. I'm happy. I think I'm gonna love this place where I can have a run in the city and still feel happy as it is all pedestrian zones and waterfront lanes, a place where I can go back home on my bike to have lunch, have a night out during the week with friends, spend almost nothing and have a great time, food and drink and walk back home quietly with no risk at all, feeling happy and safe!

Life is good. It's all about love really. Love of people around you, those you might know but those you might not know as well and you meet for a short amount of time. It's all about sharing a little bit of time together, of giving as giving is the best feeling of all; by giving, you feel so good, useful, and rewarded as you receive the hundredth more of what you give. It might be just a smile, a few words to the cashier in the supermarket, somebody in the street, in the pub when you offer some sardines left over you hate to be waisted to your neighboor, or when you talk to somebody close around you.

Ok, I am a little bit drunk but above all, I am really happy to be here today, to have lived those last 6 years of my life, the most beautiful ones and to be proud of what I am today and what I've been through... and it is all because of you, whom I met, who gave me so much and made me be what I am today... thanks to all my friends, my family and all those I met on my way!

Frenchy, 00:19, thursday night, oh sorry friday morning the 25th of July!!!

A very happy Frenchy, very grateful to be here today!!!