Simple Exposures

A week ago I queued up at the National Police Station in Málaga to get a replacement of my N.I.E as I am a bit clumsy and lost it. I queued for around an hour and a half to be told to come back on the 22nd of September at 9:30 with my passport and my university inscription (to prove I was a student), I was given a form to fill out and another to take to the bank to pay a fee of 10.60 euros to get my new NIE paper, I was also asked to bring something that shows I am still being "maintained" by my parents as they put it. This morning I arrived at 9:20 at the station for my appointment, all papers with me, I queued for about 25 minutes and it was my turn finally, I walked in and the nice spanish lady with big hair at the desk took my details and started typing, she then asked me for my European health card, I explained I have been in Spain for 12 years and have a spanish health card, she said that wasn't enough and that I needed another paper to prove I was e

Every year on the 21st of September, organisations from around the world celebrate World Alzheimer's Day , although it isn´t your typical happy celebration but an attempt to raise awareness across the globe of this common form of dementia.  Alzheimer´s is a mental impairment disorder, it affects many abilities that are fundamental in our day to day lives, we mostly associated it to memory loss. It is a progressive disease and those who are diagnosed live, on average, for around 8 years after the first symptoms ocurr. I myself have met many people suffering from different stages of Alzheimer's, from early stages where some forget where they live or get a little confused as to how they got to the place they are at to those who have lost all abilities to have a normal life and need 24 assistance by personal carers to help feed them and keep them clean. It is a frustrating thing to watch, every day I see it in a lady we know, how she forgets that she is coming out fo

I know it is only September but so much has happened this past year that I feel I am ready for a new, fresh one, so I thought what better way to start off my blog by remembering what a year it has been. After losing my nana right at the beginning of the year, I realised  many things I thought were important stopped being just that, I may only be a 20 year-old girl, not half as ready as I should be to go out in the big bad world, but I think this year has taught me a lot and changed my way of thinking.                                                         The highlight of the year (so far) was the vacation I took this past April to Los Angeles, where I, along with my mum and dad, visited some family I had only met once when I was three. Obviously I didn't remember any of them, all I knew about them was what they posted on their facebook pages. My dad has first cousins and three aunts living there, they are all Colombian born. My dad hadn't seen them for roughly