AUGUST 1st- 2nd: DEWA

After working in Madrid for few years I had the best idea in my life – GETTING A SECOND BACHELOR’S DEGREE – Translation and Interpreting at University of Granada. In order to access straight to the 3rd year I had to pass two language exams and I chose Italian as my 2nd foreign language. In one month I had to learn one language from scratch so the last two weeks of August 2004, I moved to Florence and signed up in a language school for 6 hours of class a day. This Austrian girl with Hindu name, Dewa, was my classmate during the last two hours everyday, and those were always the best two hours of class.

I landed in Salzburg and while I was staying in the line to ask about schedules of buses for my way back, Dewa showed up right behind me apologizing for being 5 minutes late (these central European people dunno what is to be late).

Her hair was a little bit darker but besides of that, she was exactly the same organic vegetarian naturalistic smiley karma gorgeous girl that I met two years ago in Florence. And still the only girl I know that can pee quicker than me.

She had left her job in a summer camp somewhere around Innsbruck just to hang out with me for a couple of days.

We drove in her charismatic car from Salzburg to Klagenfurt catching up of the last two years and right after the first minutes it was like we were back in Florence again. She confessed that we were carrying some cows' brains in a cooler on the back seat. She was planning to use to create some leather out of some deer fur. Because of that fact, we didn’t sleep in the middle of the woods as she initially planned and we finally made it to her parents’ in Klagenfurt.

Next morning we toured around downtown under the rain and we swam to the middle of lake “Worthersee”. Considering the weather at that moment, most girls I know would have been whining about cold and not willing to swim whatsoever. Nevertheless, Dewa didn’t hesitate one second and jumped in the surprising warm water of the Worthersee.


After the nice swim, we drove through the forests where we pulled over to play to the brain-picture game, a challenge for your senses. Then we climbed to a castle were a bird show was taking place. The owl, Eulalia, was the star of the show.

Considering that Dewa is the only person I know, older than 15 and younger than 70 that has not a cell phone because she does not want to have one, and that we hadn’t seen each other in two years I think we did a pretty good job meeting again. The only thing I regret is that it was too short. I can’t wait to see her again and somehow I know it will happen sooner or later.