Hello world!
I am...
Ignacio Munguía is a 24-year-old Telecommunication Engineer from Valladolid (Castile, Spain), currently working in the ICT department of Cedefop, the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, in Thessaloniki (Greece).
I have lived in...
These are the places in which I have studied, worked or just lived for a while:
1985-1986: Valladolid
1986-1987: Vigo
1987-1989: Logroño
1989-2007: Valladolid
2007-2008: Barcelona
2008: Tallinn
2008-2009: Athens
2009-2010: Valladolid
2010-…: Thessaloniki
I have been working in...
Besides my job as a trainee in Cedefop, I have worked as a freelance designer for several customers (see portfolio). I spent the summer of 2008 working as a tourist guide in Tallinn (Estonia). I know how does it feel to be in the other side of the bar in a nightclub. Currently I am writing in the professional blogs Diario del Viajero and Genciencia, of the company WeblogsSL. I have collaborated as well with the local newspaper of Valladolid El Norte de Castilla, with about 20 articles published in the printed edition. I am also collaborating with Live Every Litre, a campaign for the new hybrid car Honda CR-Z.
I have been also a softskills trainer of the Board of European Students of Technology, which of course is a volunteer position, although the personal development I have achieved thanks to it is priceless.
I like...
I love to travel, I really enjoy discovering new places and cultures. I have visited 31 countries so far. I spend hours and hours surfing the web. I like reading (Nordic authors such as Jostein Gaarder or Stieg Larsson are among my favourites, I also like my fellow countryman Miguel Delibes). I like watching good movies in the cinema, although they are hard to find. I like to learn languages. Although I am only fluent in Spanish and English I can manage with Catalan, I can read French and Portuguese, I am improving my Greek and I know a bit of Estonian. (I have taken lessons of all of them except Portuguese). Of course one of my favourite activities is hanging out with friends and have a beer, or a couple of them if necessary ;)
I don't like...
I hate bullfighting, I am ashamed of such a 'tradition'. I really dislike all the clichés about Spain, I don't feel identified with them (except the 'party-animal' side, maybe :D). I don't like narrow-minded people, or people who talks about stuff that they don't know at all. I don't like reality shows, I can't care less about what a bunch of stupid people is doing in a house, for instance. In fact, I don't like TV very much. I don't like to talk by the phone, I hardly can manage to keep a conversation for more than 15 minutes.
My blogs
Blogs that I have written
In 2004 I started Arquitecturas Imaginarias, my first blog. I don't write there anymore, but you can still check it. In 2008 I wrote Welcome to Estonia, about my experience in the Baltic country. After moving to Greece I started Una Odisea en Grecia, talking about my Greek life. All of them are in Spanish.
Blogs in which I still write
From time to time I write a personal blog in English whose updating frequence is irregular. If you are interested (or just curious) in my life, my thoughts and my experiences, feel free to visit it and read more! You can read its last post below these lines. Since February 2009 I am also collaborating with the professional blog Diario del Viajero, and since August 2009 also in Genciencia.
(cc) Ignacio Munguía.