So I have been extremely busy these last couple of days. Sunday I studied most of the day at a local cafe, and also saw some Castellers for the first time. Castellers are basically teams of men who stand on each others shoulders hoping to build a higher human tower than the other teams. During June a very popular casteller festival is in Tarragona, but on Sunday I got to witness a local one in Plaza St Jaume. There were tons of people everywhere and I decided to follow them to see what was going on. There was music being played all over, and tons of castellers..I believe I saw 4 or 5 different teams.
Tons of people outside the Adjuntment
On the weekends there are stands set up everywhere. They have everything from books to homemade goods.
Not really sure about the importance of these next two characters, but the man actually fell right after I took this picture, which was humorous.
These people put on a performance similar to stomp, except obviously much smaller
People outside of Placa Reial off of Las Ramblas, where there was also music.
This next picture was a man who was playing the harmonica, and had a pet rabbit. This rabbit was seriously dancing to this man's music, it was very interesting.
Yesterday I had a pretty busy day. I went to class, went out to lunch, went to the gym, and then met up with another intercambio I found. My intercambio works here in Barcelona for Kraft foods, and will be going to New York in September on a five year work program! I definitely am enjoying meeting some local Spanish people!
Today I woke up late, and was 15 minutes late to my first class. I went to the gym after class, met up with a friend for lunch, and then had my Oceanography class. I met up with my intercambio through IES and we went to a small cafe and talked for a few hours. Apparently Axel is on a team of Castellers and he preforms on Friday's on the outskirts of Barcelona. He invited us to go, but I will be in Sevilla this weekend, but I told him that I would go to the next one!
I have my first midterm tomorrow, so I must go study. I hope I will post again before I leave for Sevilla on Friday!
Adeu!
