Day Dos! :)

5/22/12

Today we woke up around 8:30am to start getting ready for our first day of school! We weren’t sure if we remembered how to get to the metro, so we wanted to leave an hour early to make sure we found it okay. Before school we stopped at a coffee shop and the coffees are literally TINY here! They are really good and strong here and only about 1.50 Euros! You have to ask for coffee with milk though or they will give you basically an espresso shot, which I thought was interesting. After that we went by another place for a breakfast sandwich and I had some type of sandwich with a weird meat on it, which I think in Barcelona is called Ibérico Ham. It is the ham of the Iberico pig, which is a dark, red, myoglobin-rich muscle tissue striated with fat…ha-ha so not my cup of tea. I felt pretty sick the rest of the day, so never eating that again!

Then we went to school, which didn’t last very long today, which was exciting because we were so excited to go out and explore the city. I’m taking international marketing and CIS, which both only have 2 tests each and no major projects, so it seems like it is going to be a lot better than I thought it would be! After class we went on a walk to this beautiful park with a huge beautiful fountain in it for a picnic and a meeting with all 35 of the students! And we had bread, cheese, and more of the weird meat, which I didn’t eat, ha-ha.

Afterwards we went to La Ramblas, which is a huge, touristy street with tons of shops and people and places to eat! There are also people on the street doing random performances and we saw a guy painted and dressed up as a Greek “Barcelona” God sitting on his pedestal. Very interesting to say the least. You have to be very careful of pick pocketers on this street though, because they know tourists come here a lot and they look for you, so you ALWAYS have to be aware of your surroundings! We explored the street, had some delicious gelato, went shopping at the 4 story H&M (yes 4 stories, crazy I know!), and hung out on the beautiful pier by the ocean!

After this adventure we took the metro home! Got on the wrong one once of course, but eventually we found our way back home after getting directions from a nice English man and everyone around us laughing at the silly “Americanos” as they call us.

We got ready and went to a beautiful little Italian restaurant called Ristorante Pizzeria after we got home for dinner. We had glasses of wine for only 2.80 Euros and delicious pasta filled with 4 different types of cheeses! It was amazing and so filling! We fell in love with this place, and will definitely be back!

After this we came home, hung out together, then crashed finally!