MALAGA, hope it's gonna be forever (Part 1)

It was a sunny day of April in 2007, when I entered with a friend into an internet point in Rome. I could not imagine that that moment was just the beginning of a never ending story.

It happens a lot of time that a particular moment of your live can change into something big. I believe in destiny so the fact that I went there, in that moment, search for a course and finding that course, in that particular place (Malaga) was something written, someway, somehow.

Me and this friend sign for a course in Spain, Malaga, for one month, to study Spanish to pass an exam at the university, that at the end we never passed, but this is another story. We decided Malaga not for a particular reason and we left for this short adventure.

Till now it’s all normal, we booked, we went to Spain and we begin, with the typical Italian style. Just have fun.

Day by day we met new people, we faced new situations, we had fun and got involved in crazy but funny adventures. Typical for young guys. And so the first two weeks went away quite quickly, we had friends but just a few where the ones which were always with us.

Just 14 days were left, before coming back to Italy, and usually every two weeks, in this kind of courses, new people arrives. And in fact even this time was like this. From all over the world, from Tunisia to Lebanon, from Russia to French, all new sort of boys and girls. After one or two days, we started to go out all together and day by day we started to be like a family, a big family. A big world family. From going to school, to the beach, to the supermarket, to eat and to clubs. Everything together.

So in just 10 days (because the first three, four we just met), we become like people that knew each other since a lot of years and the last night, the last goodbye, was very hard.

It happens, in the 90% of the case that once you finish a study holiday and meet new people, once you say goodbye it turns to be a real goodbye, a forever one. You keep in touch the first period, but day by day, month by month you talk less and less until both sides gets so distance that it’s almost impossible to make them come together again, even more if it is just someone that you met for only two weeks or less.

Funny but true, almost four years are pass, but we are still all very close to each others. Yes, obviously, we “lost” someone during these years, but at least in my case I have the same relationship with the majority of them that I had that long last night in Malaga when, with tears in my eyes, I had to say goodbye to a group of people that conquered my heart.

TO BE CONTINUED…