So I haven´t been up to much lately besides getting excited for back to back weekend trips and the girls visiting me over Easter weekend. My friend Mal is having her brother, his two friends, and her best friend Julie visiting this week and honestly it´s been amazing. We haven´t really hung out with that many guys because 1. They´re really creepy Spanish men 2. The American guys here are basically the cockiest sons of guns I´ve ever encountered....the east coast stereotype if you will. But, we went out ot eat and I had the best paella I´ve had since in Spain, and then went to Hook again (seriously love Pirate bars) and Sports Bar...not A sports bar but that´s the name of the place and had a great time because all the Americans were at the tourist Spanish places so we hung out with British people the whole night. Saturday, I went with Lorel, her sister and her friend visiting to Tarragona which is about an hour south of Barcelona by train where there are a lot of Roman Ruins. It was nice, but you had to pay 3 euro to get into every ruin, so we opted to look from a far.
This weekend I´m going to an IES sponsored trip to Costa Brava with Linda and Nicolette which should be amazing. We´re going to the Salvador Dali Museum, Girona, and other costal places, hopefully the weather will be warm enough to lay out. Then the next weekend I´m going to London to visit Lauren and Maddy (eee!) and then they´re coming to visit me easter weekend along with Lindsey and her friend! Phi Mu in Barca! Then 3 weeks til I come home. I´m both disappointed and excited to head home. I´ve made lists to pro-con why. (you can stop reading here I´m just killing time)
What I´ll miss: public transportation, cafe con leches, beautiful architecture on the walk to class, the awesome people I´ve met, the cool gimmick bars successfully attracting tourists, tapas, cheap good wine, cooking on a gas stove, traveling, easy classes, olive oil in everything, living next to a grocery store, seeing the crazy people, the beach, the random protests, my RA Anna, my awesome suitemate Linda, speaking another language, how change is actual functional money, no real busy work
What I will not miss: almost getting hit by drivers all the time, getting my butt grabbed in public and the creep guapa whisper cat call, smelling like cigarette smoke all the time, not having a dryer, not being understood all the time, getting lost, pick pocketers, taxis ripping you off, the exchange rate, the majority of the people on my program, 9 am classes every morning, how everything is super late, not being able to see people I care about for extended amounts of time.
When I get home I´m looking forward to seeing everyone, Obama speaking at Notre Dame, new car. But not applying for a jobs, law school, studying for the LSAT. boo.
K sorry for the long post. bye!
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