: About Me

I am 25 years old and from Vancouver, Canada. I have had a lifelong interest in writing and am finally starting to actively look for ways to develop it and hopefully, to someday make a living from it.

I love my hometown, but am swiftly becoming a continental butterfly... I have spent a year and a half each in Glasgow and Barcelona. The first experience infused me with a wish to keep traveling, the second with an obsession for learning languages (which is coming along, surely but irritatingly slowly). I am currently looking, and waiting, for my next hometown to present itself. While I watch and wait, I am working on a cheesy romance novel, and a less cheesy short story.

I like lunches and coffees and any excuse generally to eat and talk, reading books and more recently graphic novels, living in sunshine or curling up by the fire with a cup of tea. And I've also spelt my name wrong on Helium. It should be a capital B. One of these days I'll learn how to change it...

My passion is ...

among other things, writing, learning, living abroad

I know too much about ...

Long Distance Relationships

My parents always told me ...

not to get into debt (I did, but only to them)

My childhood ambition ...

I wanted to be a farmer (but I was allergic to most of the animals) and a figure skater (but couldn't skate)

My favorite memory ...

Impossible to choose

Why I write ...

I've always written, and always been told to keep writing

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Reading: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, by Michael Chabon, also comic books to practice Spanish. Watching: all the movies I've missed in two years away. Listening to: I'm completely behind and out of the loop on music

My first job ...

I vaguely recall blowing up helium balloons. Other than that, the inevitable grocery store

My best moment ...

Making the first decision to move to another country, not that I knew it at the time

My inspiration ...

Oh, everything from the beautiful detail and insignificance life itself to economic necessity.

Travel > Spain Destinations Places worth seeing in Barcelona

8 of 10

Barcelona is charming, noisy, mixed, full of Europeans, South Americans, Africans, Asians, American students, English teachers, and oh, let us not forget, the resident Catalans. Activities in Barcelona include dancing, swimming in the Mediterranean sea, drinking in small eclectic bars and on the sides of fountains, trailing the streets with your eyes cast permanently upwards at the beautiful gothic or modernist buildings, and of course, eating the Catalan national dish, pa amb tomaquet, or bread with olive oil and tomato rubbed into it. With so much to see, do and experience, and often in ...

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