A Great Day in American History

Ciao!

So classes have finally started, and my 9 in the morning ones will probably start to get tough as the semester goes on. Other than my Spanish course (which is 7 credits) I am taking a class about Barcelona, History of the Mediterranean and the Middle Ages, and Oceanography in the Mediterranean. The class Barcelona: The Cosmopolitan City will definitely be fun, and easy too. We get to do 6 field studies throughout the semester, which I'm looking forward to. My other two classes each have 5 field studies as well, so I will be exploring even more now!

One of my professors is from Belgium, and the others Cataluña. My history and Barcelona courses will be difficult, unfortunately but it is definitely nice that I get to do some traveling in them. I ate a couple nice caffes the last couple days, and had a great Italian dish! I haven't been doing that much other than preparing myself for classes, getting my books, etc.. I met some more people in my other classes, and also have some people that I previously met.

I still haven't gotten a membership to DIR yet, but tomorrow my senora said she will show me where it is at.

Today is the first time that I wish that I could have been in the US because the Obama inauguration was awesome! I'm definitely happy that I had the priviledge of witnessing this unforgettable day in American History. The inauguration was shown all over Barcelona (and I'm sure the entire world) and was on 3 different T.V. stations. Unfortunatally it was being translated as Obama was giving his speech which made it difficult to understand. Thankfully CNN.com had everything live so I had the opportunity to see Obama's speech and parade as well.

Apparently there were some bars on Las Ramblas that were showing the inauguaration live on CNN, but I ended up being too lazy to hop back on the metro do go to the city. I met a couple other people today that were really cool, from DC. One of them told me that people in DC are letting random visitors stay in their house for $1000 a night. That's pretty amazing. Apparently 2 million people traveled from different states to DC, which is mind boggling.

I also found out that there is a campus of UB (University of Barcelona) off the metro stop Guinardo, which is just one stop, literally five minutes from mi casa....wow it would have been nice to know that before...then I could have taken some classes at local universities.

Well 9 in the morning is going to come around much too soon, and yo necesito estudiar mi español.

Hopefully I will have an opportunity to do some exploring tomorrow, but it depends on how tired I am and how much I do after mis clases.

Hasta luego!