MY LIFE IN A HOSTEL

I was working in a hostel in Seville for 8 months, now I’m living in a hostel in Cancun. It’s already 1 month and I would like to illustrate you my present life as a hostel worker and resident. Now, the 10 bed dorm is my room and the whole hostel is my house. Almost the whole my life I had my own room, with my own bed and now… there is no privacy. And you know what?? I don’t care. I really like it!! I got a bed in a corner so I’m able to create my own small space (kanciapa J lots of you know what I mean). I always put the towel on both sides of the bunk bed and then I can say that I have my own 4 “walls” and a “ceiling” (it’s a upper bed). For 3 weeks I had a upper bed roommate that was an older woman that was like my mummy. She was always checking if I have eaten healthy, at what time I went to bed and woke up, washing my clothes and giving me advices about the boys, even if I didn’t want all this stuff. But I need to tell you that I really liked her even if sometimes  she was talking too much and told me that I should lost some weight ;)

The biggest adventure of living in a hostel is that you meet the people that have this same passion that you have. Their whole life is a journey and you can exchange your experiences with them, talk about the places that you have already seen and a places that you want and should see. They understand you perfectly and they never ask, why you travel, they know that there is no answer, this is the need, addiction, a drug that you cannot live without. Travel just open  your mind, you are able to see more and appreciate more. Every person that I talk to in a hostel makes me think to travel more, shows me that there are still so many places that I haven’t seen and that there is only one life so we should enjoy it in 100%.

Of course there are also disadvantages of living in a hostel. The biggest one is that sometimes, you feel like you have found your soul mate, the person that understands you perfectly and that there are still so many subjects to talk about, but there is such a few time to do it because later, this person leaves, and probably you will never see her/him again. You need to learn that you cannot attaché to someone because at the end, in one, two, three weeks, the other person will come and you will have to start again.

The next adventure of living in a hostel is that I have all the entrances to the discos for free!! And it’s a BIG adventure because the entrance is between 40-70 dollars, with an open bar that I have for free when I bring some people from a hostel, but anyway, after time, the only thing you want, is to bring the people to the disco, allocate them on their table and go back homeJJ Sometimes I just drink with them one gin tonic (it’s really hard to get it here so I always enjoy it), see a show and go home after one/two hours.

I could write more and more about my life as a hostel worker/resident but it would be hundreds of pages.

The last thing that I want to tell you is that I’M HAPPY, FREE and every day WISER, HAPPIER and STRONGER.