Now I have a good excuse – By @martamorientes

By Marta Morientes

Now I have a good excuse

During my whole life I’ve been starting and attending hobbies, activities, projects, events, concerts… most of the hobbies I left after a while, some of them introduced me to new activities,many times I had to go alone, sometimes I could convince some friends. But I’ve always kept curious about what is happening around me.To make you understand that, here is a typical WhatsApp conversation with my family and friends:Family and friends: “Hey Marta, how are you? What are you doing?”Me: “Yeah, I’m cool! I am in this random activity about this random topic in this random city.” (Change random for the specific word of that day)Family and friends thoughts: This girl is so lost…My thoughts: I have to follow my heart I guess.I am from a small city in the middle of Spain, I have tried all the activities the city offered, just to mention some of them: cycling, chess, music conservatory, rhythmic gymnastics or theatre workshop (my role was to be a tree, this is a funny story, maybe for another SCAB).I went to study university in Seville (south of Spain). My teachers don’t know what D&AD is and I wasn’t very interested in grades so I continued trying new activities as storyteller for hospitalized children, I went to jazz dance classes for a while or drums classes. I joined to the volleyball team of my university but I discovered it wasn’t my thing.One year I moved to study in Bilbao (north of Spain) where I became a music photographer and also I did a documentary which I’m very proud of. I even went to independence demostrations in Basque Country, not because I supported independence of this region(neither against it) but I wanted to learn what they think about Spain.Twosummers ago I decided to move to Edinburgh where I worked as waitress. Althought I moved alone I thought I couldn't get bored there. In fact, it was impossible. The Fringe Festival is a whole world!Last summer I decided to move to Berlin to get to know the city. I would have liked to work in a cool place in such a cool city as it is Berlin but I worked as a Segway tourist guide (not my dream job but it was kind of fun) I could learn a bit of Berlin vibes, it’s definetely a playground for artists.Currently I’m living in Hamburg, I want to finish this SCAB before going to an anti-racist rap concerts event (hope I don’t struggle with it too much).During all these years, I’ve had to explain why I always wanted to witness everything happening around me.Fortunately, despite my parents didn’t understand me very well (their thoughts are: if we can travel to the sunny beach in Spain why our daughter always wants to move to colder cities?) but they’ve always supported me on my decisions.Now that I’ve been offered a place at SCA I think they understand me a bit better and they are even willing to learn English to support me (that’s a big step!).Meanwhile I just keep doing everyday stuffs that apparently are no practical at all, but now they have a proper excuse:I'm going to be an advertising woman!