Today we started classes:
9am-12 Spanish
3:30-6 Between Tolerance and Conflict:Christians, Muslims, Jews and the Iberian Peninsula
What does this mean you may ask! Well, this means that from the hours of 12-3:30 my schedule will consist of a 10 minute walk to the beach, and a 3 hour siesta on the beach and a 10 minute walk back to campus.
"But what will you eat?"
I will eat un bocadillo (an incredible vegi sandwhich my host mom packs for me)!
"Oh but what about dessert?!"
Well, I will stop by the MANY PASTRY SHOPS ALONG THE BEACH and enjoy fresh pastries y cafe. (Jealous yet? :D)
"But will there be naked people on the beach?!"
Yes....unfortunately many people go topless/thong-full on the beach...however, this is the norm and by keeping my bathing suit on I am the one who is looked at funny.
"Oh, did you see Sagrada Familia yet?!"
Yes I did. It was incredible.
Antonio Gaudi first began this cathedral as a tribute to the Holy Family. Gaudi (who had taken over the original plans) flipped the original sketches upsidedown and begin his project. Construction began in 1882 and the cathedral is said to be completed in 2030.
There are to be 18 towers total. We got to go inside one of them to the top!
Narrow Staircases!
Also, tonight I attempted to tell my host mom that she has the best food in all of Spain. Honestly, this wonderful lady cooks better vegetarian food then I've ever had in my life. Last night she made us brownies and she told me she didn't put milk in them because she knew I didn't drink it ^.^
Barcelona is where I need to be. I honestly have found something here that I was pining for and which was compeltely unobtainable in the states. We're looking at visiting Rome or the UK, which means either taking a weekend trip or extending our tickets to stay here longer (my first choice of course is to stay longer). There's about six of us who are dead set on traveling outside of Spain and as soon as we find a cheap flight we're going. So hopefully you will hear from me soon announcing the tickets that we bought to go abroad studying abroad.
My spainsh is getting so much better. I tested into the intermediate level class as did Laurie, Chris and Miguel which RULES. In my religion/history class we have to give a 25 minute oral presentation by ourselves (UGH), but I snagged the oh so misfits appropriate topic of Judaism and ritualistic murder.
Walking everywhere has been wearing hard on my poor feet. The metro is incredibly easy to ride (as it is convenient) but walking is still our main mode of transportation. It's exhausting. We're withing 20 minutes of walking from Las ramblas which is essentially a hybrid between 16th street and the vegas strip (more so containing lots of bars, patios and dudes selling Nitrous Oxide out of smiley face balloons). The people on Las Ramblas are one of a kind however and it's fast becoming my favorite place to people watch.
Well I suppose that's all for now, hopefully anyone reading this is still interested in what I am experiencing hah.. If not, esta bien porque me gusta recordar mis adventuras.
Adios!
*I still don't understand why the pictures are being cut off on the right -.-
first of allll, i didn't even realize how long your hair was, but it looks so good! second, so far it seems like you're having an amazing time and it hasn't even been that long of a time yet!
ReplyDeleteI enjoy following your travels vicariously through your Spanish memoir. And the pictures, especially of you, are oh so beautiful.
ReplyDeleteUggh I will hate you until forever for getting to see Gaudi's work. Please go see Park Guell and Casa Batllo for me so I can steal your memory of these events upon your return and transplant them into my own!
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