Driven by Curiosity…

I am in Santiago de Compostella in the north of Spain. I have been here for the last few days to finish some administrative work. Today I have spent the whole day discovering every single christian building in this city … and how tired we are now at 11:30 at night and after hours and hours of thorough historic search. Santiago is a city of chritian piligrimage… and in every single building you would see a figure of Jesus, a saint or if you are lucky an angel! evry house has some sort historic ties with the church.

The day finished with watching a parade… this weeks is called ´la semana santa´ or the sacred week, that accompanies Easter. I have to admit that i am buffled by this parade… people who are wearing these pointy hats and have the faces covered just like the attire of the KKK movement, they have opening for the eyes and when they look at you, you feel these are not people to mess with… they were holding trumpets and drums, followed by hundreds of people holding candles in silence… . Many of them are bearfoot and other are crawling on their knees as some sort of sacrifice… and I really dont know if this is part of christianity or it is some tradition that came hundreds of years afterwards… templars or Crusaders… or GoD knows what…actually i am very curious to know more about this… the point of all this, a thought hit me while watching these old ladies crawling on their hands and knees with all the blood and cuts and that is if it is really worth it to do all these physical sacrifices in the name of God or religion… or whatever school of thought we would belong to…

On a happier note.. Santiago is fascinating.. i have been having so much fun watching these young people cruising through the city holding hands and totally in love… Santiago beside its christian place in spain is also a very fanmous campus… and part of how i have been feeling is that i fell somehow in the land of peter pan where everyone is young and enjoying life… and since every year the older ones graduate and leave and a new wave of young people join this campus… it really never grows old… it has this perpetual youth…

Anyway… I need to sleep now, i will start with yet another Isabelle Allende book… beside all the extra terrestrial, vampires, star wars and time traveling … i have passion for isabelle allende!