FORÇA BARÇA!!
hello hello! time for yet another blog...
first i will do a brief recap of last week because i seem to have skipped all that..BCA organized a trip for us to go to the city of tarragona, so we got to see some pretty cool ancient Roman ruins from when tarragona was some sort of roman capital in spain. there was an aqueduct (2nd only to the one in segovia!), an amphitheatre (for like gladiator stuff), a circuit (like in ben hir), and lots of random pieces of wall. it was a really beautiful city, so it was fun while we were looking at stuff, but our 2.5 hours of free time got a bit boring because absolutely everything was closed. so we wandered for a very long time looking at not too much, but it was fun anyway cuz we are good at entertaining ourselves. that night a bunch of us went out to a flamenco bar so i got to see my first flamenco singing/dancing/playing of music which was really neat! it was obvious that the place was kind of oriented towards tourists, but that´s what i am, so whatever. it was cool. and that was also the day of the big barça/madrid soccer game (HUGE rivals) and barça won! so there were people running up and down the ramblas with barça flags and screaming and even later it got to be like fire crackers and loud things...people go crazy! but yay :) força barça!! after that we metroed it over to a cute neighborhood and went to a little mexican bar/restaurant and got margheritas and the most tasty guacamole ever...mmm gordo...
this week really flew by, i´m not sure why. on monday i finally went ahead and purchased a coat i´d been eyeing, after going into every store in the shopping region and trying on a million. so now i´m´not freezing all the time. because its cooold! sometimes it gets to 40, which i know sounds not too bad to you guys, but we don´t have snow, so it´s cold. this week i´ve also actually started doing work because the end of classes are just around the corner. i have my very first hebrew test this coming tuesday so i´ve been prepping for that, but i think after a day of studing i´m basically done already...so now i can move onto something else :-/ writing a paper perhaps? nooo say it aint so! i have no idea what to write...i think i´m gonna brainstorm and then go talk to my prof on monday and ask her if i´m even on the right track, because i just don´t know what they expect from a paper in spain!
so on thursday we had our "thanksgiving reception" organized by BCA and it was despicably pathetic. not only did we have nothing resembling traditional thanksgiving food, the tapas that they did give us were few and gross. a plate of cheese. cold and bland tortilla española chunks. fried dates, i believe? gross croquettes. and a plate of calamari (mmm we know how much i love squid). the end! oh, and never ending pitchers of sangria so every one got tipsy. that´s always good...well, we were all disappointed because everyone´s host moms are saying that every other year it has been traditional thanksgiving food, so basically we got jipped this year. and then hearing about other people´s yummy dinners at home was depressing! oh well. we still had a good time just hanging out. and after we went to a cafe for dessert which was tasty.
yesterday amy´s parents (who have been in town since wed) took me tim and katie out to lunch which was very fun :) another set of jewish parents is always amusing heheh. (ps her dad is also a doctor named steve!) and last night me and 3 others went to the spanish opening of harry potter!!! :-D i enjoyed it very much, although i sat next to a harry potter buff and him and me were discussing all the flaws throughout the movie....they left out some very peculiar things, things that seemed kind of important and were slightly eluded to, but were never completed as stories! a bit odd...i feel like 5 seconds here or there would have filled it out a lot more. but it was a huge book so they did a good job cutting it down i think. the special effects were way cool! i give a thumbs up :) but of course we went to a 12:30 showing and had to night bus home, so i didn´t get to bed till 4 am.
and now we have reached my present state of blogging at noon on a saturday, following waking up ;) hope all is well!!!
love
sar
first i will do a brief recap of last week because i seem to have skipped all that..BCA organized a trip for us to go to the city of tarragona, so we got to see some pretty cool ancient Roman ruins from when tarragona was some sort of roman capital in spain. there was an aqueduct (2nd only to the one in segovia!), an amphitheatre (for like gladiator stuff), a circuit (like in ben hir), and lots of random pieces of wall. it was a really beautiful city, so it was fun while we were looking at stuff, but our 2.5 hours of free time got a bit boring because absolutely everything was closed. so we wandered for a very long time looking at not too much, but it was fun anyway cuz we are good at entertaining ourselves. that night a bunch of us went out to a flamenco bar so i got to see my first flamenco singing/dancing/playing of music which was really neat! it was obvious that the place was kind of oriented towards tourists, but that´s what i am, so whatever. it was cool. and that was also the day of the big barça/madrid soccer game (HUGE rivals) and barça won! so there were people running up and down the ramblas with barça flags and screaming and even later it got to be like fire crackers and loud things...people go crazy! but yay :) força barça!! after that we metroed it over to a cute neighborhood and went to a little mexican bar/restaurant and got margheritas and the most tasty guacamole ever...mmm gordo...
this week really flew by, i´m not sure why. on monday i finally went ahead and purchased a coat i´d been eyeing, after going into every store in the shopping region and trying on a million. so now i´m´not freezing all the time. because its cooold! sometimes it gets to 40, which i know sounds not too bad to you guys, but we don´t have snow, so it´s cold. this week i´ve also actually started doing work because the end of classes are just around the corner. i have my very first hebrew test this coming tuesday so i´ve been prepping for that, but i think after a day of studing i´m basically done already...so now i can move onto something else :-/ writing a paper perhaps? nooo say it aint so! i have no idea what to write...i think i´m gonna brainstorm and then go talk to my prof on monday and ask her if i´m even on the right track, because i just don´t know what they expect from a paper in spain!
so on thursday we had our "thanksgiving reception" organized by BCA and it was despicably pathetic. not only did we have nothing resembling traditional thanksgiving food, the tapas that they did give us were few and gross. a plate of cheese. cold and bland tortilla española chunks. fried dates, i believe? gross croquettes. and a plate of calamari (mmm we know how much i love squid). the end! oh, and never ending pitchers of sangria so every one got tipsy. that´s always good...well, we were all disappointed because everyone´s host moms are saying that every other year it has been traditional thanksgiving food, so basically we got jipped this year. and then hearing about other people´s yummy dinners at home was depressing! oh well. we still had a good time just hanging out. and after we went to a cafe for dessert which was tasty.
yesterday amy´s parents (who have been in town since wed) took me tim and katie out to lunch which was very fun :) another set of jewish parents is always amusing heheh. (ps her dad is also a doctor named steve!) and last night me and 3 others went to the spanish opening of harry potter!!! :-D i enjoyed it very much, although i sat next to a harry potter buff and him and me were discussing all the flaws throughout the movie....they left out some very peculiar things, things that seemed kind of important and were slightly eluded to, but were never completed as stories! a bit odd...i feel like 5 seconds here or there would have filled it out a lot more. but it was a huge book so they did a good job cutting it down i think. the special effects were way cool! i give a thumbs up :) but of course we went to a 12:30 showing and had to night bus home, so i didn´t get to bed till 4 am.
and now we have reached my present state of blogging at noon on a saturday, following waking up ;) hope all is well!!!
love
sar
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