Saying goodbye to summer and preparing for a cold winter...

Its been a long time since my last post. I wanted to write before, but you know how it is, so this one is going to be a bit of a summary of the last months...
I survived a horrible summer in the city, in terms of temperatures. I knew Madrids summer was going to be hot, but this was just..an experience I will never forget (I wonder why there are no t-shirts around saying "I survived Madrid!"). But anyways, human being usually tend to quickly forget bad experiences, and now at the end of September it finally cooled down to comfy temperatures (I even use to wake up with a frozen nose which is a sign that winter is coming). Our new/old flat seems that it is not going to be the warmest and cosiest place to survive winter...the window is old and every night we hear 5 garbage trucks passing by just as if they were going to run us over in our bed (although we live in the 6th floor). You can imagine how it was in summer, when we had to keep our window open in order not to suffocate, forget about sleeping before 2 am..
I finally managed to infect Marcos a bit with my travel fever and we did quite a bit of travelling (for me too less and for him too much). Not that we went to exotic places but you have to start with something right? Actually, we went to the usual places (Almunecar, Munich, Venice..) but isnt home the best place to go on your holidays? I enjoyed being back in Munich and sleeping again in my tiny room at "mums hotel", playing with my cats, or just hanging around and watching tv...and mum converting every culinary longing in your head into reality. So that it was about my holidays, ok, no hitchhiking in australia or anything like dat (like some of u guys doing ;-)) but trust me, I will definitely not forget these holidays where I just so much appreciated being home. Apart of that, I am now ready for a big travel like for example...Japan (si Chuy! ;-)).
In terms of work, well...I dont want to say I feel that I baceame one of those human roboters which do the same every day...although I am afraid I did...I think I now could go all the way to my workplace, make photocopies, type in numbers, prepare invoices and go back home while being asleep. And the worst is that I realized that the only thing which keeps me going is (apart of the money of course :P).. commodity... Yesterday I was at the hairdersser, the one who attended me was a paraguyan girl or woman, around 30's...we started chatting and she told me she got 2 jobs here, one cleaning job in the morning, and the hairdresser one in the afternoon. She said every day she left home at 7am to take a train out to a place around an hour away from Madrid and clean apartments. Then she came back into the hairdresser shop until 9 pm. Every day. She also told me she had a small son, whom she hadnt seen for 5 years (she left him in care with her mother in Paraguay). I noticed her eyes started to whimper when she told me about it...I know this is one of a thousand immigrant stories in this city...alot of people just come to work here, save money and send it back home. They only come here for work, and in some way, I am a bit the same as they. Not that I want to compare myself with them, I know that their lifes are so much harder. But sometimes I feel Im also here just for work...in some way Im also an immigrant, with no family, and yes, a stranger...I could never feel here the same as I do at home. Even though I bought myself two cats, the same bed I have...I know I will never feel at home..