November

November just started. Another month, the third one for me in Madrid.
The project is going like I am intended to however I feel I haven't met people who has more interesting stories to tell and the question comes about what is interesting for me. The Non governmental organization I am working with has helped me so much but I haven't found an order. What do I mean by an order? well I wanted to focus on 3 immigrants collectives (Peruvians, Colombians and Ecuadorians) and I haven't interviewed as many as I wanted to. For this reason I started volunteering at a Ecuadorian ONG so I could be more in contact with them.
It is a little challenging but I try to be patient, this is the only way I could get what I need. So far I have interviewed ten people from Colombia, Brazil, Peru, Paraguay, Mexico, Ecuador and Dominican Republic.
A friend asked me the other way something interesting that made me really think about my project, the reasons why I am doing this.This pushed me to really analyze the purpose of what I am doing here. If I intended to have an exhibition of this project which I do, I want to do something here before taking this to the U.S. so I said that my project wants to portray a different aspect of the immigrant in Europe, well in Madrid. I feel the word immigrant has a negative connotation in this country and I would like to show the viewer that an immigrant shouldn't be seem as someone who is threatening, instead should be seen as someone who is making a difference. People migrate for different reasons, the most common is the economic one. However people migrate all the time, based on needs and goals they set for themselves. Humans have a tendency to move around from one place to another according to their needs and wants.

Spain as the United States are places seemed as a destination place for many, whether is great opportunities or just the desire to migrate where other people had migrated too.

I have been reading about this subject because i want to understand my subject more in depth and also because it answers questions that not even the person who I am interviewing is aware of.

So far this is a great project, I am getting so excited every time I meet someone who wants to share their story.