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Well sorry that it has been so long my dears!! I haven't posted since I got back form Lisbon but there is a very good explanation for that! its because I got back and then posted things and then had a test to study for :/ mrack! tests do happen in spain unfortunately. To keep my parents (and hopefully some other special people) from freaking out that i'm not posting i'll try and get you guys barcelona  days 1&2:

good story to preface with:
so the guy that planned this whole study abroad shindig comes and talks to our class on wednesday right. so he is telling about what goes into planning this trip and how he wants to expand it and this guy is old and PRECIOUS and super entertaining so i'm smiling the whole time and he keeps looking at me and i'm just enjoying his presentation right. well he starts to talk about safety and utters this sentence: "I mean none of your parents were worried about you coming to Spain right..."
BAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
my head just hits the desk and I make an emily noise and giggle as like steven and a few other people that know the state of my parents minds look at me, and then when i come up I am bright red and the ENTIRE class is staring at me. nice parents. smooth.




So we left for Barcelona on Thursday after we had a test on wednesday. which btw I AM PRETTY SURE I ROCKED IT!! YAY. and we celebrated with a pool day. which i have solved the mystery of why spanish people love the pool so freaking much. its just as hot as it is in texas BUT NO ONE HAS FREAKING AIR CONDITIONING. i am sweating to death in my room with the window open getting like zero cross breeze. rawr.

anyway on our way to Barcelona we stopped in Zaragoza which was a very pretty town with a Cathedral (gasp). I know all the cathedrals are probably blurring together for you guys, but I really liked this one and most of the cathedrals never cease to amaze me. this one was no different it was super sweet and brynnan and I got to ride an elevator up to the top of the tallest tower. ballin? yeah it was :)

So then we just continued on our merry way to Barcelona after that...when we got to barcelona we heard there was this big party on the beach for the summer solstice. dude party on the beach? i'm there right. and so what they do at this party (as told to us by our professor who is peruvian) is they wait until midnight and then everybody rushes into the water. DUDE THIS IS GOING TO BE GREAT. So we master the subway in barcelona and ride down to the beach. which is very pretty, but i mean its night so we can't see much. we get there at like 11 and just chill and walk around til it starts nearing 12.
12 is fast approaching and we are super stoked and then it hits!!!.....
NO ONE MOVES
seriously. there isn't even a glance towards the water by these spaniards. we all look like complete newbs chillin in our group with our swimsuits on. so maybe its on spain time right (aka everything runs late) so we wait til like 12:15, still no movement. finally at 12:30 we are pretty sure nothing is going to happen. lame freaking sauce. bust.
so then i went home and went to bed. none the wetter, but all the more fun because i got to hang out with b fink all night :) hehehehehheh
also there is no photo documentation of this event since i assumed i would be running into the water...

DAY 2
we took a bus tour of Barcelona and the first stop was Sagrada Familia. which is this giant unfinished cathedral in barcelona that the city is famous for. (aren't all the cities...hehehe) but this was like the coolest architechture ever cathedral. its not finished because all of the stuff takes so long to make and its just crazy but it cool; look it up on wikipedia if you so choose because the wifi is UBER slow and the pictures don't do it justice so make wiki will hehe :) but yeah this this was cool. and there are cranes all over the place finishing it up:

Then we went to the location of the 1992 Barcelona olympics which was really neat. and toured that:

We took a nice stop for a beautiful view:

and then we ended our lovely morning (which is now like early afternoon...) with a tour of this BEAUTIFUL garden/park type thing that was done by Gaudi, who is a famous spanish architect and these people LOVE THIS GUY. i have heard about him about a zillion times since i came to spain, he is probably second only to like Don Quixote:

There were these park musicians that were fantastic according to b fink. (lets be honest i didn't know any different...) but they were pleasant so we watched them for a bit :)

Then we just had a free afternoon where I napped and then we grabbed a bite to eat!! very nice first 2 days of barcelona!

I'll try and get the 3rd day up but I have my finals on thursday so I make no promises!
Love,
Emily