We arrived this morning around 8am. I had taken a delicious ambien and slept for about 10 hours during the bus ride, but the ride and walking around Barcelona has taken it out of us. We were able to drop our luggage off at the hostel at 9am this morning but we couldn´t officially check in until 3pm, so we went to the Museu Picasso, Boqueria market, and visited Las Ramblas.
There´s a bit to update on here... last Tuesday was Noche de San Juan, a giant fiesta at night. I have tons of photos, so I´ll post them once I get back to the United States (or when I have time here, but who wants to spend their time in Barcelona updating a blog and fighting with technological issues?) Anyway, there is a group of advanced Spanish students from the U of U studying in Gijón, and the annual tradition is to play a soccer game against them on the beach of Gijón, so that´s precisely what we did. I switched off between playing soccer and drinking beer with Nicole and Kim on the beach. Muy divertido. Pictures on that later as well.
My final grade in my class was a 90% so that´s pretty good. All in all I feel like I´ve learned how to understand conversational Spanish better, and through use of the language I´ve retained way more than I would have if I´d done a summer course in Utah. I hope to continue my studies in Spanish forever! I need to find Harry Potter (or something equally easy) in Spanish and start learning how to read the language better.
On Friday, we had a mini-espicha with our class and professors and it was pretty fun. Nicole and I took off a little early so we could buy flowers for our host moms and get ready for our bus at 7:30pm. We took off right on time and this morning wound up in Barcelona. We´re pretty exhausted so Nicole is napping and I´m about to go do the same, but earlier today after dropping our bags off at our hostel (we couldn´t check in until 3pm so we had to find stuff to do in the interim) we went all the way Las Ramblas, went to the Museu Picasso, bought 7$ margaritas (that´s the only time THAT is going to happen, jeez) and went shopping for food because we have an all-access kitchen here at our hostel. I´ll have to post photos of the hostel as well, it´s pretty swank. We also went to the Boqueria outdoor market today and bought bread and cups of 100% fruit juice (SO GOOD - kiwi pineapple and strawberry coconut I think) .
We have a private room with one double bed, a giant window, an oscillating fan, a nightstand, and a sweet Ikea closet. There´s unlimited internet but I can´t find the internet hole (aka USB) so photos aren´t going to happen for awhile. Maybe I´ll get to it in Madrid. Tonight we´re going to try to hit a free light and sound show at one of the plazas and maybe go to the beach with a bottle of champagne, cheese and crackers (how romantic! ha ha) and hang out.
We didn´t know our hostel was 100% alcohol free until after we checked in with our bottle of wine and 3 bottles of Mahou Negra (best beer ever, by the way) so we´ve smuggled them in and left them in tons of plastic bags in the fridge. I hope we´re not caught! But they´re labeled so I don´t think anyone will touch them. We´ll see... but we won´t be repeat offenders once our current stash is gone. You just can´t drink warm alcohol!
More later. Hope everyone is doing well.
There´s a bit to update on here... last Tuesday was Noche de San Juan, a giant fiesta at night. I have tons of photos, so I´ll post them once I get back to the United States (or when I have time here, but who wants to spend their time in Barcelona updating a blog and fighting with technological issues?) Anyway, there is a group of advanced Spanish students from the U of U studying in Gijón, and the annual tradition is to play a soccer game against them on the beach of Gijón, so that´s precisely what we did. I switched off between playing soccer and drinking beer with Nicole and Kim on the beach. Muy divertido. Pictures on that later as well.
My final grade in my class was a 90% so that´s pretty good. All in all I feel like I´ve learned how to understand conversational Spanish better, and through use of the language I´ve retained way more than I would have if I´d done a summer course in Utah. I hope to continue my studies in Spanish forever! I need to find Harry Potter (or something equally easy) in Spanish and start learning how to read the language better.
On Friday, we had a mini-espicha with our class and professors and it was pretty fun. Nicole and I took off a little early so we could buy flowers for our host moms and get ready for our bus at 7:30pm. We took off right on time and this morning wound up in Barcelona. We´re pretty exhausted so Nicole is napping and I´m about to go do the same, but earlier today after dropping our bags off at our hostel (we couldn´t check in until 3pm so we had to find stuff to do in the interim) we went all the way Las Ramblas, went to the Museu Picasso, bought 7$ margaritas (that´s the only time THAT is going to happen, jeez) and went shopping for food because we have an all-access kitchen here at our hostel. I´ll have to post photos of the hostel as well, it´s pretty swank. We also went to the Boqueria outdoor market today and bought bread and cups of 100% fruit juice (SO GOOD - kiwi pineapple and strawberry coconut I think) .
We have a private room with one double bed, a giant window, an oscillating fan, a nightstand, and a sweet Ikea closet. There´s unlimited internet but I can´t find the internet hole (aka USB) so photos aren´t going to happen for awhile. Maybe I´ll get to it in Madrid. Tonight we´re going to try to hit a free light and sound show at one of the plazas and maybe go to the beach with a bottle of champagne, cheese and crackers (how romantic! ha ha) and hang out.
We didn´t know our hostel was 100% alcohol free until after we checked in with our bottle of wine and 3 bottles of Mahou Negra (best beer ever, by the way) so we´ve smuggled them in and left them in tons of plastic bags in the fridge. I hope we´re not caught! But they´re labeled so I don´t think anyone will touch them. We´ll see... but we won´t be repeat offenders once our current stash is gone. You just can´t drink warm alcohol!
More later. Hope everyone is doing well.
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