The Last Few Days..

Buenos Noches!

Well since I returned from Roma and the Costa Brava the week has flown by, just like this entire semester. I have been pretty busy with my classes with projects and finals approaching. I met up with most of my local friends this week, which was fun! Thursday my friend Alex took me to a really cool bar close to Las Ramblas, which is basically a forest inside! The weather has been absolutely crazy here, sunny for an hour then raining, and then sunny again. Friday I went out with a bunch of my friends from IES which was a really good time. Saturday we all went out to lunch and went down to the beach for a couple of hours until the rain came in. But I have been keeping busy with my classes and everything and pretty much relaxed most of Saturday night and figured I should rest up for the week. Today I got some studying done and then ran from my house up the mountain and realized that I was pretty close to Parc Guell. I ran for about an hour which was one of the better runs I have had since I have been out here. It is a little easier to run when your in a mountain looking over the city of Barcelona and the sea...haha kind of distracts you from the running part!

My friend Alex invited me to go and see a movie tonight which was really fun! Her mom came with too, which was awesome because she is an extremely nice woman. I really have had some excellent luck with everyone I have met out here. We saw the movie Señales de Futuro, which I believe translates to Signs of the Future, or something close to that. It is an American movie with Nicholas Cage and it was actually a very good movie. We watched it in Spanish and I understood much more than I thought that I would. I really was able to understand the entire movie which was pretty cool. After the movie was over we dropped Alex's mom back at home and then she took me all the way to my house which was very nice of her. I'm pretty far away from the city, it took us almost 20 minutes or so to get to my house from the theater. It was the first time I have been inside an actual car in Barcelona, which was pretty fun. Her mother invited me to their house to have paella one night which I hope I will be able to do! I have yet to have homemade paella so that would be exciting! Like I said, I really have had a lot of luck with everyone I have met out here. I definitely will miss everyone from out here once I return to the states.

It's pretty cool that a lot of my friends are from the Chicago area, so I promised a few of them that I would take them to a Cubs game this summer! Speaking of the Cubs...looks like they are off to a pretty decent start. I've been extremely busy but I've been checking out the Cubs website every day or two. I definitely can't wait to start going to Wrigley this summer! Hopefully this is the year!

Well I still can't believe that I have less than 2 weeks here in Barcelona. These past months have flown by way too fast. I have begun registering for classes which don't begin until June 15, which is nice because I have some time to get my life back together once I get back to the States. Unfortunately my flight got changed to 7:00 AM the day I leave, which doesn't give me much time as my last final is the day before I leave. I have to much to do, so many people to see, and so little time to do it! I'm going to be running around these next few weeks, but I will try and post sometime again during the week!