"Once in a while, I can be critical about my job, or at least of parts of it. Yet sometimes, it is nothing short of amazing. A trip to Barcelona this weekend reminded me of the beautiful parts of this job. There I was in my too fancy room, which was super trendy and mega-cool. There I found a bouquet of flowers, intimidatingly large. How large can a bouquet of flower be, you think? Let me illustrate: it had pineapples in it, and they were looking small. It was the first time I was looking at an assortment of flowers, and I wasn't sure if I should look at it or try to eat it". "In the first hour, I had found eleven buttons to change the mood of the lights in the room and bathroom and move curtains up and down, left and right, yet I was still looking for a plug for the charger of my laptop. Ha, I now wanted to write something educated about the Gaudí building I can see from my hotel room, but I now realize I don't know that much about it. So I just looked at it, because it's pretty.
I went for a walk, since work only started the next morning. I slow-walked through the sunny streets of Barcelona, from pretty streets to the not so pretty streets, not sure where my chances of getting pick-pocketed were bigger. With the soft sun on my face, and Jack Johnson in my ears I couldn't help but smile at random strangers, and I could feel my body relax. My shoulders came down, the frown in my forehead disappeared, my hands slid in my pocket and I regretted not having put on my flip-flops. It clearly was a flip-flop moment. For a while, I just walked in my mental flip-flops trying to think of nothing (I refuse to make a model-related joke here, it's too easy) and I decided it was a happy moment. It was a Friday afternoon, and I was somehow walking slowly through an amazing city because this weekend I am working here. I sat down, had an overpriced cup of coffee and figured, not bad, very not bad.
The next morning work started, life continued and reality set in. But I had a nice walk in the sun in Barcelona, it would be more than worth the days of work to come".

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