Friday, February 18, 2011

Culinary Student Cover Letter

Erasmus drunk, lifted her skirt. Eyes Wide Shut vs

I was thinking about that identity. What is mutable, individual, collective, deep dynamic. What was about 2 minutes and I'm not. Nor will I ever be more than it is writing.

I've been half a year in France, and even a couple of days ago I had not felt a "Erasmus." And that is somewhat complicated, because when you get here you no longer have that name. On the street, in class, on the premises. You are a Erasmus, with all that that entails.
I mean drag the stigma, with all the connotations of the term that previous students have earned. These are: lazy, drunken, licentious. Erasmus

stigma. The people are amazing. At night I love you seek, be their eyes light up as if they had struck gold when you come as Erasmus, which is something you can not hide, chasing you on your accent, the color of your hair, your skin . I envy the experience you are supposed to live, and want to dance with you, fuck you. But day by the University shun you when you have to do some group work because you are a burden. Because you can not pay the same level as them. And you're more alone than ever.

The Erasmus is overrated. I would love to destroy all those stupid myths. In. .. the best year of my life, a unique experience ... Perhaps
my business, the only person in the universe to which this seems a most common experience and predictable. I feel at home, and that's it. I am a foreigner. Okay, at times sad and specific can give me a drop and miss many things, but that also happened to me when I lived in Barcelona, and was not Erasmus.

But you come here, and in the first week you have to open up a bank account. Going to order the CAF, the housing allowance. You register for social security. Go to market fruits and vegetables in the morning. You become a citizen of another country, and that's it.
watching TV yesterday I crossed the wires and for a second I thought it was house and asked Joy why on television speaking in French. And I asked in French. As if anything, as my language, my TV, my home.

My life as a "girl Erasmus" is exactly like my girl who studies life in Santiago. I go when I want to go out. I drink when I feel like drinking. Go to the movies whenever I want. Pay bills. And go to class much more than it was in Santiago. And the same river, and cry the same.

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