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Updated Wednesday, January 31, 2024-14:41
Aleix
, 19 years old, Physical Education student, native of Palol de Revardit (Girona) went to
First Dates
last night to look for love because he was tired of going from flower to flower every weekend. She brought a long, very long list of requirements: that she not be taller than him, that she not break his life expectations and that she be
"a Catalanite
. "
Aleix loves Catalonia and by his side there can only be a woman who loves her the way he loves her: "Outside of Catalonia I have never eaten good tumaca bread the way I like it, here they take your bread and they take you and they take you
a tomato
and they put it on top. Tomato bread is...
sucar
.
Sucar
is in Catalan, in Spanish I don't know what it's called." This is how the young man introduced himself, who later declared himself a "left-wing independentist."
To sucar
is to wet.
He arrived at
First Dates
and was greeted by Laura Boada who asked him what he did, how his love life had gone, and how a girl had to be to win him over. The usual questions and the answers... the not so usual answers. "I'm working as a lifeguard. In love, things haven't been good or bad for me. I've had two relationships and I left them both because I got tired. And now I've been partying for a while, with girls, and now I'm looking for something more serious." "The girl has to be shorter than me and be Catalan.
I am not very radical about this, but a Catalan girl is one who speaks to me in Catalan, who likes Catalan and who loves Catalonia as I love it
."
Opposite,
Abril
, 18 years old, hairdressing student, resident in Sant Celoni (Barcelona). He likes gossip. "I'm already tired and
I want to know love and what it really means to have a relationship
," she said before entering the restaurant of love.
Abril
came in
and Laura Boada the first thing she asked him was where he was from. "From Barcelona," she replied.
"Perfect. We have it
," she said, looking at Aleix. That's the bad thing about selling the bear skin before hunting it.
Abril
,
Aleix , was not impressed at first and neither was
he
later. The girl asked him what had led him to sign up for
First Dates
and the boy, without hesitation, answered that he was from Girona. Things started badly and were going to end worse.
Aleix didn't really like Abril at first either, because he wanted an athletic girl and the most Abril does is "
sofing
." "What is that?" he asked. "Being on the couch," she replied. There was no understanding between them.
It was during dinner when things became even more tense. As Aleix was saying in the totals of the appointment,
"she could be Catalan, but she doesn't speak Catalan to me. I haven't even noticed her accent
. "
For Aleix it was very important, because "in my town they only speak Catalan."
"I speak Spanish with people from Catalonia
," confessed Abril, for whom the fact that Aleix was Catalan was good for her "because it was close, but not because he is Catalan."
Aleix wanted to make clear to Abril what his political positions were and led much of the dinner conversation to his political ideals.
"I am from Catalonia, Catalonia. I am left-wing. I want the independence of Catalonia
. "
April, for her part, was not up for such political intensity: "I don't care about politics. I want Spain, Catalonia, and for them to continue to be part of the same territory. It doesn't go beyond politics.
Neither homeland, nor politics. No I want to go there
."
The date was impossible to come together and it was Aleix who gave the reason for not having a second date with Abril: "I feel very good speaking in Catalan and you have pointed out to me that you speak a lot of Spanish." And the birds from First Dates each went his way.