On Saturday we went to a Barca football game!  The team is absolutely amazing.  I think I can now appreciate soccer, I actually found that I really like it more than I ever realized.  We were almost as far away as you can possibly get.  Think nosebleed seats.  But thats okay because the game was included in our program so we didn't have to pay for tickets!

Me and Jess

Barca won 3-0!  After the game the entire crowd poured out of the stadium.  The streets were full of people to the point where no cars on the streets could move... I guess this happens every time there is a game?

On Sunday we slept in really late (to make up for lack of sleep during the week).  We decided to go to Parc Guell because we had heard a lot of good things about it.  So around 2 Cindy, Jess, and I headed out to meet Elaine C at the Joanic metro stop.  We walked the 20 minutes to Parc Guell.  Parc Guell is situated on a hill on the side of Barcelona.  It was designed by Gaudi because he used to live in a house at the beginning of the park (where you can now visit as a musem).  If you climb high enough you can look out over the entire city.

I really can't even describe what the park was like because it is so unique and amazing.  If you go to Barcelona this place is definitely somewhere you can't miss. 

On the platform that overlooks the city there were vendors selling jewelry and other touristy items.  There was also a bubble man blowing enourmous bubbles!

I was intrigued and probably took far to many pictures of the bubbles.

We headed up to the top of the hill/mountain (honestly i'm not even really sure what you would call it).  We were walking down a gravel path when we decided to venture off into the woods... there was a trail and we figured why the heck not.  We walked along the trail for about 5 minutes and we came across a huge wall, that was sort of falling apart but had really cool graffiti.  My and Cindy climbed to the top of the wall and there was an amazing view!  We also took tons of pictures beacuse it was so beautiful.

I was a model in a past life....

Anyway we decided to leave the park, so we went to a cafe for a late lunch/early dinner.  I got a hamburger and they put it on french bread.  Literally any sandwich you order over here is on french bread! So delicious.  Except all the people here are really skinny, honestly barely any fat people live here... its confusing because all the food I have seen out is not healthy!  I guess it probably has to do with proportion sizes.  

We headed back, and I started some of the homework I have.  I actually have a ton!  

So anyway the fast couple days have been pretty stressful.  For one we are trying to book some weekend trips, but Ryan Air doesn't go very many places out of the Barcelona airport which is frustrating.  But we're still working on weekend trips.

Additionally someone told me that my Spanish class that I'm taking is the same level I took last semester at Maryland.  I didn't find this out until a few days after the add/drop period ended.  I asked someone who works for Education Abroad at Maryland if it was going to count, and she informed that it wasn't.  I'm really glad that they're so informative and really make sure you take classes that will count and help you out (I also keep forgetting that sarcasm doesn't really work over the internet).  So now I have to wait and see if the Universistat Autonomia de Barcelona administration will let me change levels even though the add/drop period is over.  If not the credits aren't going to count which is frustrating because its a waste of time and money.  

On a better note, Yev is helping me professionalize my Teaching Them 2 Fish website so I'm really excited about that.

Well, I should stop procrastinating and finish my Five page paper thats due tomorrow.