Just me, myself and I...

                Although my mother´s whish was to call me Maria Teresa as her own mother, finally I was named Carmen, as my mother and my grandmother. 

The date and place of my birth was two years and six months after my only sibling exactly, in a hospital of Granada.  Precisely because of that, we are symmetric twins, like yin and yang.

That´s how my life began,  but it happened too many years ago, nearly 34.

Nowadays, I´m unemployed.   At  the same time, I´m looking for any type of job, even as a nursery school teacher (that´s what I studied), whereas I take care of my 20-month-old son and do the housework.

I invest my free time reading or going out with my family and friends.

Looking at the future, I wish I would get a well-paid job wherever, which allows myself enjoying time with my son.

Getting a job is one the reasons for me to study English, but I must admit I like learning languages and I have a slogan: “ you must finish what you began”, so here I am.

From my point of view, the aspects I enjoy most of English are listening and learning new vocabulary.  These aspects and others were very useful when I visited Amsterdam, five years ago.  It was an exciting journey and I enjoyed the fact of being able to communicate with other people.

Concerning my hobbies, I love reading, which provides me the way to live other people lives or stories, visit other places or amuse myself learning new ways of being.  I have been reading some new-age books, even metaphysics books, but at this moment I am into medieval fiction books. I´ve just begun “A song of ice and fire”, which means that I have read “Game of Thrones” and I am going to begin with “A clash of Kings”.

With reference to cinema, it is a luxury activity that I can´t afford at this moment, although I like watching films on TV. I enjoy all kind of films except horror ones.

Regarding music, I usually listen to music everywhere at everytime, from  soundtracks to pop music, for instance “Efecto Pasillo”, or any kind of uplifting song.

I´m good at listening to other people, putting in order things and concentrating for doing yoga.  On the other hand, I´m not good at remembering things, doing sports in general and explaining what bothers me without getting angry.

In general, I need peaceful places in order to calm down my mind and don´t drive myself mad, so I try to walk along the sea parade of Torrenueva (where I live) and enjoy the movement of the waves.  Another calming place for me is my desk and, of course, my sofa (I love it)

Lastly, talking of people, I like my husband because of his vitality and capacity of seeing the positive aspects of everything; not forgetting my son and nephew who show me how to be an improved version of myself .

Steve Jobs, Mandela and William Wallace, are people that I admire because of their fights against adversity.