there is just too much going on to keep up with this every day....so ill have to do a week long update again....here goes....
monday-horrible day. i got up, got lookin cute, and decided to go shopping in town. my book told me of a really great shopping area so i went there. turns out its like the super way expensive area where i couldnt buy anything. bummer. on top of that my shoes some how have gotten so they dont really fit anymore so i kept walking out of them. then, my purse zipper broke. so i said i quit and went to a bar. the waiter liked me and i stayed there for a while then came back to the dorm. everyone was having a test at 7 and i had to go to casue we have food. i turned in my papers which was an amazing feeling...done. after the test the whole group decided to go to george payne. its a irish pub wed heard about and it was really cool. mondays are open mic night and 7 euro pitchers. everyone had a real good time. i really really liked thta place. cant wait to go back.
tuesday-BEST DAY! went to camp nou. thats the FC Barcelona futbol stadium and museum and gift shop. they are my favorite team so i was in heaven. they have the biggest stadium in all of europe and it was pretty amazing to see. we were there all day looking at everything. i got to take a picture with a repllica of their new champions league cup!!! its been my favorite picture so far, it came out real cute. then i did some major damage at the gift shop...$227. i bought a puyol jersey (hes real good and the captian) some flip flops, some glasses, a few gifts, some lighters, a pin for my stocking, shot glasses, a mug, a little giraffe wearing a fc jersey and more. best day.i finally tried true sangria when we got back but it was too sweet for me. i like one glass of it but i couldnt drink anymore than that.
wednesday- everyone had class till 5 so i went out by myself and explored sangrada familia. its the cathedral that gaudi designed. they started working on it 80 years ago and they still arnt finished, they actually dont think theyll be finished till 2030. its huge and the detail on every little things is overwhelming. i can see how its taken so long to complete. i really want to go back when they finish. you take an evevator to the topand look around at the view. beautiful. i wish the inside had been better, the whole thing is under construction...lame. then i met a couple people downtown and while i waited i had a long beach icetea at the hard rock. new favorite drink. then we went shopping and i got a champions league ball! it was the last one so it was 50% off so i had to get it. ive wanted one for a while. its a soccer ball but it has stars on it instead of little hexagons. its pretty, im gonna get a stand for it. phillip and i split up from jessie and andi and then could never find them again. so we just went to a bar and then magicly everyone else from our group ended up at the same bar. it was alright. i get home about 2 and i come into my room and my room mate isnt here...and i kinda freak out becasue we never met back up with them downtown. so i go find phillip and tell him and im knocking on everyoens door looking for them becasue they arnt big party people, they wouldnt really be out. an hour of freaking out later i hear them come out of the elevator, drunk. they had been hanging out with some of the waiters from the little bar down on campus. random. at least they wearnt dead. they felt bad but it was ok.
thursday- picasso museum. disapointing. i expected so much more of the museum dedicated to him in the city where he lived a long time and studied. there wasnt anything real great in there. the area of town it was in was way cute though, i think we are going to go back and just walk around some time. after that everyone who went with us eexcept me and on e other girl wanted to go see harry potter so everyone went to do that and she and i just went to eat at that amazing italian place again. i had pasta this time. delicious. that was about it. we came back and a few people just hung out in my room for a while, nothing special.
firday-7:45 am. trip to tarragona. wed night i could tell i was starting to get shin splints. just in time for tarragona, where we were going to treck around some roman ruinns....great. by the time we got there and walked up the like 200 stairs to get from the train station to the city, i was hurtin. the city is way up on a hill right on the coast. it was beautiful but hard to get to es[ecially in pain like that. then we walked around all day. first we went to a cathedral. it was real pretty, very peaceful. i lit 2 candles and sat and cired for a bit. then we left and i was just kinda bummed form that and hurting. by now my knee hurt too. then we went to lunch. it took almost 4 hours. i hated it. then we went a few more places and then i asked if i ould just go back to the hotel casue i could barley walk. there were lots of stairs everywhere that i ould go up so i couldnt see anything really anyway so me and a few peope just left. they all went to the beach when we got back but i could get down the hill to go so i stayed and took a hot bath and went to a pharmacy to buy a rap for my leg and some pain stuff. when everyone got back we went to dinner then to a rock bar. it was cool. i had taken a codine for my legs so i wasnt going to drink, but then of course i get there and they have desperados aka the best beer ever. it was alomst all i drank in frnace last time and ive been looking for it every where since ive been here and apparently its not popular in spain. but here it was. so i had to have one...two. i was so happy. so happy.
saturday- more walking. more ruins. more pain. thats pretty much it. we went to the aquaduct and you had to hike up a hill that wasnt paved or anything to get on top. i wasnt going to but then i realized there were like 5000000 huge ants at the bottom and i didnt want to stay down there and get bit and die alone. so i hiked up (horrible idea) and walked along the top. worth it i guess, but still crazy painful. then we came backa nd ate and got back on the train and came back to barca. then i passed out. 75% of the group went out drinking that night, i have no idea how casue i was crazy tired but they are more into that than me i guess.
sunday-beach day! man i love the beaches here. we went to a different one and it was so much better than the first one. the sand was soft, the water was clear. perfect. we swam waaaaaay out form the beach and just floated around. since there is sooo much slat in the water its easy to tread and real easy to float. it was so relazing. there was a to go pizza place right near by so i went and got a huge pizza for the 5 of us and we sat and ate on the beach. wonderful. then we went to hard rock for drinks/snacks. good times. tehn we came back and tried to make a list of what all we have left to do. we also got our plans together for our madrid/valencia trip at the end. im excited!
today-im waiting for everyone to get out of class then im gonna head into town, stop and the harley davidson and then head down to nike to get a good pair of tennis shoes to help my legs/knees with all this walking. and also to get a new track jacket. then another test tonight that i have to go to but not take. then its back to george payne again i think. should be fun. i love it here. weve got lots of plans for the next 3 weeks. itll go quick. i cant believe we been here 2 weeks already. ill be back before i know it. i wish i could have staied an extra week and traveled like a few people are doing. i real jealous. like REAL jealous. : ( oh well.
me gusta barcelona
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