After a long time of feeling quite useless - camping and spacing out on beaches and goaparties - I am finally feeling back into our project again…

Since yesterday we are taking part in the occupation of the central university of Barcelona (Metro Universitat). The university -among the 6 universities that were occupied in Barcelona and the many more in Catalunya and rest of Spain - was occupied about a month ago as a sign of resistance against the “Bolonya” (=Bologna, Italy) contract.

The protesting students here fear that (Catalunyan) universities lose their indepence (–> European standarts for education, Bachelor/Master system) and also lots of universities will be privatised. That means that education will be getting more and more expensive/ less affordable for everybody while qualityand freedom of choice (of classes) decreases…
The students welcomed us very friendly and open towards our project. They were very happy that we wanted to stay in the university and support their actions. We will have an information about skillsurfers/travelling school of life here in the next days and -at least some of us- will probably stay here for a while, do some workshops and use the nice infrastructure and contacts.