I’M actually someone from New York City but I have 100 percent Spanish blood. Even if I’m both an American national and American citizen and therefore my sovereign and political allegiances are with the United States, all my parents are Spanish. My dad is from Marbella while my mom is from Madrid.

My genealogy’s history is pretty interesting. My dad was a mere fisherman in the Mediterranean coastline of Marbella while my mom was a hospitality management in Bern in an internship in Marbella. Even though my mom was from Madrid, it took her to go to Switzerland and enroll in a hospitality university there before she went on an internship spree to the Spanish resorts of Marbella, Ibiza, Palma de Mallorca and Tenerife as well as Las Palmas in the Canary Islands. That’s a total of four semesters of internship and my mom had surely met some wonderful suitors, both foreign and local, in these places, but in the end she stuck it out with a simple fisherman from Marbella.

Their meeting was, to follow a cliché, surely a match made in heaven. My mom, Juana, was assigned to accept fresh fish produce at the beach resort in Marbella that she’s interned in. And there was my dashing dad, Marcos, with fresh Mediterranean scent all over him, delivering fresh grouper, redfish and other produce. And that’s the start of a romance of a lifetime which produced me. They got married in New York City where my mom now manages an elegant restaurant and my dad is now a consultant at one of the fishing companies in New Jersey.

I have always craved to go to Marbella even when I was still in sixth grade listening fondly to my dad and mom telling stories again and again about their wonderful Mediterranean honeymoon. I believe now is the time to go there. I have applied for one-semester academic program at one of the top universities in Madrid because I’m currently taking up a degree in international relations. For that semester, I’ll surely be going to Marbella.

I would have applied for the free all-expense student exchange scholarship offered by the Madrid university but both my parents said no. They said they would want to handle all my expenses in going to Spain. They said it is their way of honoring their homeland which had met them in destiny. Nah, that’s one mushy phrase right there but that’s what really Dad and Mom said. After all, the Spaniards are said to be romantic. I don’t know why it’s not in me. Maybe it’s because of the very diverse New York culture. But seriously, I want to marry a Spanish woman or an American who has Spanish blood. In fact, my celebrity idol is Penelope Cruz who is Spanish. So there you have it ladies and gentlemen, I’m gonna travel to Marbella soon and I’ll surely report my journey here in this blog.