I have been thinking about my friends all
this week. All this time I have remembered a good friend from when I was at the
university: Meritxell Suriñach. It’s difficult for me to write about her because
she is dead but I realize that I still miss her.
I met her during my first year but not at the beginning,
because she was a friend of a friend friend .Together we spent a lot of time in different
libraries, in the university bar and speaking on the phone about exams and homework.
She was a blonde, blu really pretty woman with blue eyes. She was clever, brilliant and
hard -working and she used to be always ready to go to a party or celebration. She
used to be also in a hurry to do everything because she didn’t want to miss anything.
She showed
to me how to hitchhike, that's how we used to go home from the UAB. It was faster, cheaper
and we never had any problem. She also taught me catalan because she
was from Camprodon and for five years I could learn more catalan than in all my life.
I know that she learnt from me spanish because she told me.
I met her family, and my boyfriend and I
went to Camprodon several times. My boyfriend, nowadays my husband, and I could
meet a real catalan family because we came from Andalusian emigrants sons and
we had never shared food or conversations with people who we understood
although they spoke another language to ours. We forgot forever all the
stereotypes about catalonan people. She came home many times as well. Once she came to
Badalona to go to the “ Cremada del Dimoni” celebration. We had a great time
because she was really funny, extroverted and talkative.
She was such an adventurer that she passed away in
Mont Blanc. She had an accident; she slipped and fell down a precipice. I can’t say
anything bad about her because she was an angel. Rest in peace ,my friend.
I'm sorry, Eva. This post is definitely a beautiful tribute to your friend.
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