Tangerine's PoV

Time goes by and things are getting tougher every day. I’ve come to think that romanians have plague or something, I don’t understand how people can be so xenophobic here. Last Monday I had a quite unpleasant experience at the university. I had one class to which I couldn’t go before, because of the job and other circumstances. Teachers should stop worrying about the attendance at their classes and limit to teaching what they have to teach: if you pass the exam or not should be your problem. But it seems that to this teacher is very important to be present, it doesn’t matter what it costs to be there: if you want to study a career you should be at the university all day long.

Anyway, I got to school on Monday, with my work done (apparently) and the teacher asked me why she hasn’t seen me in class before. I explained all the visa and job thing, I told her that I’m romanian and that well, it’s not easy. She asked me if I was there with some kind of Erasmus scholarship and I told her that I didn’t have any scholarship and she asked: “So, why did you come here at all?”. I thought that she was joking or something but no, she seemed to be very angry for me going to Spain with no scholarship. I’ve spent two hours whishing to get out of there and just forget about her. She came to see if I did my paper was not ok, and I had to change it (I will have to present it tomorrow, how nice!) just because she didn’t want it to be ok. If I said something in class it was wrong, and if other colleague said the same thing it was just perfect. Could it be because I am romanian and they are catalans?

I don’t understand why people bother about these things at all. If I decided to come to Spain I did it for some reasons that I don’t have to share with everybody. I’ve got a job and I wanted to study a career, I don’t think that I do something wrong. Anyway, my colleagues were very nice people indeed, they just kept quiet and let the teacher say all that crap. Now I know why I don’t want to talk to anyone in class. Maybe I’m antisocial, tough luck.

Well, these are the latest updates from Spain. I hope I can write again soon but with all the things I have to do for the university and with the job I barely have time for myself.