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20071216 Sunday December 16, 2007
Back after 3 months abroad!

It is done! I am back home, and I am going to stop feeling like Phileas Fogg for a while. :-)

These last few months have been kind of crazy, actually. I have done lot of traveling around America, mainly giving talks at conferences and congresses.

The truth is that I quite liked it, I met a huge number of interesting people, built many contacts, had lot of fun and learned a million things. Although, besides all those great things, being abroad for months isn't that easy: you get to miss many things, for instance, to rest and to do some of those boring things that you have done for so many years and that you suddenly miss when you are traveling.

This last "tour" - as some of my friends call them - has included a few stops through North, Central and South America:

There is something funny about this though. You could not even imagine how many time I have thought about how much I would like to speak English as my mother tongue: "it would be so damn handy! (sighhhhh..)". But, you know what? During these last trips I have realized that to speak Spanish as mother tongue and English as second language is not that bad after all. You can reach an amazing number of people that I couldn't otherwise. In fact, I am quite happy because it is the first time I see the language barrier from this perspective.

Anyway! I am back home for Christmas, and it is time to stop "evangelizing" -what an awful word!- and to start doing again some technical work: I have a few GIO related hacks to do for this week. It is going to fun! :-)


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