1/13/09
I hate the word blog. It doesn’t sound fun, or funny, or exciting, which is clearly all the things my blog is. It sounds like something you cough up when you’re sick. Speaking of sick, Thea has been ‘blogging’ all over the place cause she has the flu, apparently. Really nothing is going well for that girl. She still doesn’t have her luggage, she was put into the wrong Spanish class, she skipped both Gymkhana’s… womp womp. She actually went shopping at H&M to buy some clothes in the meantime. She comes home and the first thing she pulls out that she bought… 4 inch heels. She.Would.
Before the Gymkhana, we stopped at a café called Farggi that is right on the corner of the block that our center is on. Chessie, Shane and I got some hot chocolate, which I think should more properly be called: the nectar of the Gods. It was like a straight up melted chocolate bar. It was so thick we ate it (yeah ATE it) with a spoon. Delicioso.
The second Gymkhana was totes more fun than the first one because we knew what to expect. We went into this Catalan-gothic style church, Santa Maria del Mar, for one of the clues and it was really beautiful. We got to spend some time there and I said a prayer for my Nana, it was very cool. I love my Spanish class, we are the only ones who are really gung-ho about these scavenger hunts so who knows, we may actually win that free trip after all, though we don’t know exactly where we go if we win, it was rumored it’s Montserrat, but we’re not sure.
Today I went with Chessie, David, Shane and Matt over to the Futbol stadium and we bought tickets for a game tomorrow night. It was only 10 Euros because it’s the B team, and it aint like we know any of the A team players anyway so we figure it will be just as exciting. The game doesn’t start until 10pm so we’re going to go after we go to the welcome ceremony that we have tomorrow night at some hotel. I’m excited, it should be a good time.
When we came back from the Gymkhana, Chessie and I decided to take the bus home so that we were familiar with that way home as well. When we sat down, this couple got on and they started talking to us a little bit and we told them we were students. They chatted us up the whole way back, all in Spanish, it was so fun, I love being able to figure stuff out like that. They mostly spoke Catalan, and no English, so we were all trying to use our Spanish. They were probably in their 70’s… and I love me some old folks, so that was just the cake topper. They were super cute.
We are finally going to meet our RA tonight I believe, we were supposed to have met her a few days ago but we had some failure to communicate so she just got a hold of us now. Our signora should be back tomorrow because her mother is doing better. If Antonia is anything like her friend Conchita, things are lookin good. Although, Sandra told us today that Marta will probably still cook for us, which is fine, except for the fact that Chessie is a vegetarian and has told Marta repeatedly that she doesn’t eat beef or chicken or anything… we have had a meat dish almost every night. Chessie is a good sport about it, but her meals have mostly consisted of the same vegetables and bread, so for her sake I hope things get figured out. (There are plenty of vegetarians in Spain so we aren’t really sure what else to tell this woman). That being said… tonight’s dinner was mashed potatoes, vegetables annnnnnnnd chicken.
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