AINHOA GALLO 1C

EMOCEANS: AN OCEAN OF EMOTIONS

I had never been to an airport before. That was actually my first time being on one of them. Although nothing was really familiar because I've never seen anything similar before, it somehow felt like home. I had a feeling of coming back, coming back to a place that I left early in life. A single decision led me there.

I was just nine years old, but it felt like I've been to multiple places before. It was probably because of how dreamy of a person I was (and I still am). All those worlds I had been to, all of that was thanks to books, books in which writers combine words perfectly and allowed me to daydream.

People looked lost at the airport, well they were not lost, they were wandering and not all those who wander are lost. They were interesting to observe, every person had their own story. Every person transmitted different feelings and made me feel as a complete opposite version of myself. I still had two hours before getting into the plane, but I couldn't believe that was my life at that moment, I couldn't believe I was physically there. I was constantly blinking twice with the intention of waking up from that dream.

I turned my head and saw a huge screen with a vast amount of numbers and names that my brother always talked about. He used to tell me that one day he would make it to those places. He wanted to study abroad but life works in weird ways and I was the one taking a plane and going abroad.

At that time, I didn't really understand what the numbers’ meaning was but I knew that Carla did. She helped me from the very beginning and had to care of me all through the process. I was grateful for her.

I hadn't seen them in real life before, but I had only seen them in pictures but I knew they were right for me and that I was right for them.

Although I was trying to figure out how I felt that entire time. I was ineffable as a whole.

AINHOA GALLO –BATXI 1C-