Dear FutureMe

How’s everything going? I’ll be 25 years old and I’m writing for to know if you’ll be doing well, as thought in the past.

These are the things I expect you’ll be doing. You’ll probably finish a degree and you’ll be working in a school like a teacher, or the opposite, you’ll be working in one hotel like a receptionist in somewhere that isn’t Basque country. I’m thinking that you’ll be living on abroad where you’ll have practiced your English. I’ll hope that you’re enjoying the work but I also hope you went into it because you wanted to and not because you expected to.

Maybe your life will have turned out quite differently. Maybe you’re living on abroad and you’ll have news friends and new style to live. But you have to be like you were later; you have to be positive and very sure of yourself.

Here’s some advice and good wishes from “present me”: Try to be a happy person and do the things that you feel like doing without fear. Enjoy your time and travel a lot to the places you have always dreamed. Be happy.

And what about the rest of the world? Did they do something to sort out the economic crisis? Did they do something to sort out the environment? Did they invent something incredible?

Look after yourself,

Leire

Been 17

How do you feel being seventeen?

Last weekend I went to a camping with friends to stay there for three days having fun. When we arrived, the receptionist told us that to enter there, somebody of us have to be 18 and have to sign.

I am bored of depending on somebody who is 18, but also I think that there are some advantages to it.

On the one hand, the first positive thing of being seventeen is that you don’t have to work and you don’t have some responsibilities. Another positive thing is that you have a lot of holiday and you can spend your free time with your friends, family, etc.

On the other hand, there are negatives things, obviously. The cons of being seventeen, and no eighteen, are that you have to depend of somebody who is an adult to do things, like to go from one place to another by a car, to travel around the world, to buy a lot of things… But the worst thing of being eighteen is that you have to pay everything that you want, like a bill.

And of course, you have to work a lot.

To sum up, I think that being seventeen isn’t the best feeling; I’ll prefer to be eighteen for be more independent.