From: Nacho_Moráis
Subject: Hi people!!!
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 17:07:07 +0200

Hi people!!!

After one week in NYC, I finally arrived at home. I am a still a bit jet-lagged (I have woken up today at 15:30), but I am alright. I am trying to get aware of how my life was before going to New Paltz. It is a hard research, for instance, yesterday, my friends made me go from bar to bar until 5:00 (terrible!).

I will give you my e-mails, so you can get in touch with me. Don't forget to answer this message and write me how you are.

nachomorais@teleline.es
nachomorais@guay.com
nachomorais@hotmail.com

Seee you, people

Nacho Morais

From: Nacho_Moráis
Subject: Never go to an Oasis Concert!!!!
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 14:18:06 +0200

Hi, people!!!

How are you? I hope well. On wednesday I went to see a concert of Oasis, you know, the British group. It was f***ing bad. It only lasted for an hour and a quarter!!!!! After an hour, the group went backstage and I told my friends "Now, there will be the second part of the concert...". They went back, they sang 1 other song AND THAT WAS ALL!

IT WAS HORRIBLE

They even didn't sang 'Dont look back in anger'. By the way, as you should know, the leaders of the group are the two Gallagher brothers... and only one of them came to the concert.

Lamentable show.

I hope you have better news to tell me.

See you!!!!!,

Nacho Morais

From: Nacho_Moráis
Subject: My new old life
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 00:19:10 +0200

Hi people!!!

As I told you in previous e-mails, I was trying to discover how my life was before arriving to New Paltz. What I've discovered is that I had a nice life in a medium-size city (Gijon, population 268,000, for more information in English visit www.ayto-gijon.es/ingles/index.html ) of the north of Spain, that I drove to another city (Oviedo, population 198,000) everyday to go to my college (at www19.uniovi.es you can see a photo of the entrance) and last but not least, that this kind of life is gonna change enormously.

Firstly, I am gonna move to another city, Madrid, population more than 3,000,000, the capital city of spain(for more information in English, go to www.munimadrid.es/ayuntamiento/htmling/indice.html). Why am I doing this? I'm gonna take there my Master's Degree (2 years). I will take it at a foundation that owns the Bank of Spain (the Bank of Spain is like the Federal Reserve in the USA), that catches people like me and transforms them in Financial experts. This center is called CEMFI spain(for more information in English, go to www.cemfi.es/indexve.htm ). We are 26 people in the class, 25 of them are probed top-class super-students. The other is me. Ha, ha, ha! The environment there will be so competitive (the others will smile to me while wishing I was killed and so on). To put it worse they give a prize for the first of the degree, so it will be even more competitive. Anyway, I will survive... even if I have to be the last standing man in the class... so... I'll forgive the women. hahaha!

As I am moving to a new city, one of the first things I had to solve was my housing. At first, I was offered to join some mates of the Master to share a flat. We were four and it was so difficult to find a flat of this size. I finally chose to go to a Residence Hall. By the way, not having my mates at home will let me sleep without a gun under my pillow. The Residence Hall is an old building, but it is quite clean at least, I will share my room with a roommate and have a bathroom each three rooms. Yes! Just like Dubois! To know more about this Residence Hall there is one web page, but I will send it to you another day (its too complicated), for instance when I receive your response :-). Furthermore, in this dorm is quite cheap; for a bit more than Dubois fee they feed me, clean my room, wash my clothes, MAKE MY BED... yeah, its cool! and its located two blocks away from the house of my aunt, uncle and my little cousin Catalina. To go to the place I take classes I have to take either the bus or the subway, but everybody has to do it there. In fact, the subway is probably the most remarcable place of Madrid... hahaha!

I will go on with the tale of my new old life soon. While that, I wait for your news, impressions, opinion and answers.

SEEYOUUUUUU!

Nacho Morais

From: Nacho_Moráis
Subject: My new Life
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 13:00:15

Hi People,

I know it has been so fucking long since I last wrote to you, but I had may problems getting online here in Madrid, and so getting my address book. But finally, here am I to tell you about my adventures in the Capitol of tha Spanish Kingdom. I have already beun my Masters and I am beginning to feel the pressure. The residence Hall, despite it is only for boys, is quite comfortable, people are so kind and has some mithical details. The first week I was located in a microroom (less than half of the Dubois ones), but now I am in a wide double room. In my floor, I live with a pilot student, a cinema student, a doctor an American boy and my partner. My partner is only 17 years old; he studies something like document science. The day he arrived, there happened a funny thing. In the Hall, we didn't know when would he arrive, so, when he arrived, it was Sunday. You know, Sunday is the post-apocalypse day. My bed was just a matrix with a pack of shits on it, my clothes (even underwear) all around the room... well, everyone has seen my Dubois room, you now my room can reach quite untidy levels. That was the situation when the boy (and his mother) arrived. I was not it the Hall at that moment, so when the Dean of the Hall (the cinema student I referred above) opened the door and saw the disaster, told 'well... he studies his Masters in the Bank of Spain, he is always so busy' and mother and son agreed.

Tha common pieces of the Hall are also so cool. We have a huge and peculiar TV room: the screen is like a cinema one (but tiny)and instead of chairs, we have sofas. We have some compulsory-watch programmes: Ally McBeal, Friends, UEFA Champions' League, The Simpsons, Futurama and some Spanish ones (casually, I just met one of the main characters of my favourite Spanish TV series, called 7 vidas (7 lifes)).

On weekends, we use to visit some pubs of the area (after having our post-dinner chat in the Hall); some of this bars are 'Swimming' or 'La Siesta' or a disco called 'Art Decó'.

In my Masters I expected to find fierce competence, but I didn't. It is not only that the people don't want to kill me, but also that I'm also beginning to low down my blood thirst... terrible! As we are dependent from the Bank of Spain, I have an entrace card to it (which makes me so proud... hahaha)

Ok, I hope you have build up a rough idea about my life in Madrid. If you wanna know more about me (and also if not), don't forget to write to me!!!

See you!!!!!,

Nacho Moráis