Barcelona and Warsaw!

I decided the part-time teaching job was not enough to live comfortably and decided to try my luck in Barcelona. Barcelona is even more beautiful than Madrid. It's one of the most beautiful, if not the most beautiful, city I have seen. It is, in my opinion, the most beautiful combination of old and new. The old city center, with its hundreds and hundreds of old townhouses, is punctuated with modern buildings, also the Gaudi buildings, which are beautifuly blended into the old style. There's the incredible coast with beaches, promenades, cafes, marinas... There are so many casas the cultura: places where different courses on culture, arts, music, health, fitness, etc. are offered and are either free to the public or require a small fee. It is a city where one can develop or broaden interest in many areas and at the same time it has a quiet and relaxed feel of Madrid. There are more art studios and galleries there than in Madrid - the people who live in Barcelona, both Barcelonians and expatriates, are very creative and artistically inclined. I would prefer to live in Barcelona. I looked at a few offers of teaching jobs but, like in Madrid, they were substitution courses offered until the end of June. I decided that it would make more sense to go to Poland and relax there and return at the end of the summer and look for one school with so called block hours where I could work in the mornings or evenings and not run around the city to teach at different schools. So I boarded a bus and after 40 hours got to Warsaw. The bus route was beautiful: we went through France, Switzerland with a short stop at Geneve and Lousanne, and then through Austria, Czech Republic and south of Poland. Now I am staying with Dorotka, Marcin and Karmelek at their new apartment and soon I will head to Poznan to see my parents, my friends and doggies. It seems that I will meet with some other friends who are relocating to other places via Warsaw this summer. There's a great movement hanging in the air...