An Irish Pub With Irish People

Well, today is my first day of classes! But I'll start with yesterday.

We continued our bus tour on the red route, which up to the region alta (alta because it is a higher up near the mountains and the people have a higher standard of living). The tour also went out, to the south I think it would be, to the main university in Barcelona and we also saw the huge stadium for futbol. It holds 100,000 people. I'll also attach a picture from this, they are crazy about the Barc (what the call the barcelona futbol team for short). My  favorite place that we went was Parc Guell, by Gaudi. It is named after his primary patron and is b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l. The mosaic work, which is everywhere is great to look at far away and upclose. There is a lso a great view of the city. Its actually the same view as the one I have at the top of the blog, but the ones I took aren't quite so colorful. We walked around la ramblas, too, after the bus trip and got a quick lunch. We have come to love the long lunch because we end up talking for two hours anyway. After some more walking around we went back to a small cafe we had passed ( we were going to get lunch there since it was the cheapest but it was clealry popular with the locals, and thus a little overwhelming for us). Anywho, this place was have a special on chocolate and churros, probably the only time I'll get its filling and rich, but DELICIOUS. The churros aren't like you get at disney or wherever, they are more like that shape, long, but like fried dough. And the chocolate, like hot chocolate, is more like a cup of melted chocolate with a lil' bit o hot chocolate flavoring. Its delicious, sinfully delicious. Eventually we got back after trying to go to a euro store, like a dollar store, but it was closed that late (5 ish) on a Sunday. I relaxed, tidied my room, and made dinner (tuna, can you believe it). A few of us went out to a pub around eight for a bit. Its this Irish pub close by, and its great. There is kareoke(spelling?) on sundays and it was very entertaining. We also met some fun people including some french guys but they spoke spanish better than english. What interesting: they don't like Paris, or parisians and don't like that that is what represents France because they aren't welcoming or friendly. Interesting. They tried to talk politics a little but we didnt really go there because I don't know enough and things could get lost in translation. 

So here I am waiting for class to start at 12:30. The university is very close so I don't have to leave until say 12:15, earlier today though so I can find the room. The room numbers are extremelly weird... 20.049...what does that mean? We'll find out. I plan on making it to this euro store today so I can get some plates/cups/bowls for my room and see what else I can find and Sam wants to find boots. YAY bargain hunting! 

xoxoxoxooxoxoxoxoxo   (the picture above is what all the buildings look like for the most part, the streets are narrower)